Newsletter - Links - Advertise - Contact Us - Privacy
 

Search Results for

11149 news found
News 801-850 out of 11149 displayed.
25 Aug 2008 - No comments
Scottish architectural practice, Groves Raines Architects Studio (GRAS) part of Groves Raines Architect Ltd, will launch its designs for a House of the Future at this year’s Homes & Interiors...
26 Aug 2008 - No comments
Archaeologists are investigating whether the ornately carved St Orland’s Pictish stone has stood in the same spot for more than 1,100 years.  The work is especially exciting because most stones...
26 Aug 2008 - No comments
Hurleypalmerflatt’s Energy & Sustainability Consultancy, as part of the Gigha partnership, has won the Affordable Housing category at the Scottish Design Awards 2008 for Fyne Homes & CP...
26 Aug 2008 - No comments
Integrated Environmental Solutions (IES) launch a free plug in to Google SketchUp, the popular 3D design tool, today.   Critically this now enables sustainable practice to be undertaken at the...
27 Aug 2008 - No comments
Glasgow based Nord Architects have unveiled design proposals for the Olympic Primary Substation, Stratford. The key utility building for EDF Energy is designed to evoke permanency, weight and...
27 Aug 2008 - No comments
Broomview House in Edinburgh is set to be demolished on 21 September, accompanied by a live internet broadcast.  The estate has been subject to severe subsidence such that, according to local...
29 Aug 2008 - No comments
Allan Murray’s mammoth Caltongate scheme, endangered after an embarrassing council faux pas, is back on the agenda after being rubber stamped for the second time. Commenting, Mountgrange...
29 Aug 2008 - No comments
European Development Company Hotels Ltd (EDC) have appointed Aedas to design the £120 million Bothwell Plaza scheme on Bothwell Street, Glasgow. Comprising twin elements, the eastern portion...
29 Aug 2008 - No comments
Arts venue – competition or shoe-in? Out of the blue, a mystery group of financial backers have apparently assembled a £3m cash pot to help get a new culture centre off the ground. Not a...
1 Sep 2008 - No comments
The City of Edinburgh Council this week (Wednesday, 27 August 2008) gave outline planning permission for a development framework for Leith Docks, the largest planning application in Edinburgh’s...
1 Sep 2008 - No comments
A derelict bus depot at Shrub Place, Edinburgh, is set to be transformed with new housing and retail in a £70million venture from Broadway Malyan and BL Developments. Originally given the...
1 Sep 2008 - No comments
Architects have reacted with incredulity to reports that Unesco is calling for a moratorium on major development within Edinburgh, while an investigation into world heritage status is conducted....
1 Sep 2008 - No comments
Lisa Barry, Managing Director of SSL Access, has called for a voluntary take up of the government’s “lifetime homes” standard within the construction sector.  This embodies a series of...
2 Sep 2008 - No comments
St Mirren FC are preparing for kick off at their new 8,016 capacity stadium, currently nearing completion at Greenhill Road in Ferguslie.  An official handover date has been set for November 28....
2 Sep 2008 - No comments
The historic Briggait is to be given a new lease of life this August by architects Nicoll Russell Studios and engineering consultancy Buro Happold.  Work is due to start on the transformation of...
2 Sep 2008 - No comments
Those enjoying the latest edition of the BBC’s “Dragons’ Den” will have encountered an innovative alternative to wall mounted radiators and under floor heating.  One that received a cool...
3 Sep 2008 - No comments
The Edinburgh Solicitors Property Centre (ESPC) have revealed that average house prices in Edinburgh have dropped 6.5%, the first decline in 37 years.  This is set against a drop in property sales...
4 Sep 2008 - No comments
Two Glasgow schools, Hazelwood School from gm+ad architects and John Wheatley College by Ahrends Burton and Koralek Architects, have been shortlisted in the learning category of the World...
4 Sep 2008 - No comments
The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) has opened the RIAS Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland Award 2008.  The princely sum of £25,000 will be awarded to the architect of...
4 Sep 2008 - No comments
A masterplan has been submitted by NPL Estates and Keppie for Scotland's largest brownfield regeneration project at the Ardeer Peninsula in North Ayrshire. More than £500m will be invested...
4 Sep 2008 - No comments
Scottish Government ministers have given the final go-ahead for an aerial adventure course in Pollok Park. The application was originally approved in March, but this decision was subsequently...
4 Sep 2008 - No comments
An A listed office block at 21-22 St Andrew's Square is set to be transformed by developer Golden Square has been recommended for approval.  The plans call for subdivision of the building into...
4 Sep 2008 - No comments
Scotland’s dedicated presence at this years Venice Architecture Biennale takes the form of the Scottish pavilion, “A Gathering Space”, created by Gareth Hoskins Architects.  This expressive...
5 Sep 2008 - No comments
A vision for Scotland’s first eco town at Cardenden has been submitted to Fife Council by Banks Developments and Turley Associates.  The proposal aims to harness natural resources to realise the...
5 Sep 2008 - No comments
St Peter’s seminary has been much in the news of late, as architects ponder how best to raise the crumbling structure from the dead.   A recent German invasion however appears to have taken...
5 Sep 2008 - No comments
The Glasgow School of Art have published the latest issue of their in-house magazine, Flow. This details the institutions economic contributions and achievements over the past six months. ...
5 Sep 2008 - No comments
River runs dry Only a few weeks now until the ‘Design Develop & Unify Glasgow’ conference highlighted previously in the Wrap, but if ever an event’s hype was confounded by reality, this...
5 Sep 2008 - No comments
In what has become something of a triumphant year for Gareth Hoskins Architects comes news that the practice has been shortlisted for the BD 2008 Architect of the Year Award in the Public Buildings...
5 Sep 2008 - No comments
Scott McIntyre and Agnes Hegedus of Dundee based architects & interior designers, Nicoll Russell Studios, are celebrating reaching the final of a national photographic competition.  The event was...
5 Sep 2008 - No comments
The Business and Enterprise Committee have published a report that calls on the government to appoint a “Chief Construction Officer”, who would drive forward best practice and become the main...
5 Sep 2008 - No comments
A desolate 1960’s concrete warren, otherwise known as Linwood Shopping Centre, is set to make way for a new mixed use development. The new Centre will include a town hall, Tesco...
8 Sep 2008 - No comments
The first major monograph of Connell Ward and Lucas, one of the most controversial of modernist practices, is to be published on September 11. Amyas Connell, Basil Ward and Colin Lucas...
8 Sep 2008 - No comments
International architecture firm RMJM, has won a contract to design two new university campuses in Libya from the Organisation for the Development of Administrative Centres (ODAC).   These...
8 Sep 2008 - No comments
Hazelwood School continues to accrue awards for its bulging trophy cabinet.  The latest gong wings its way over from across the pond courtesy of Design Share.  This global community of...
8 Sep 2008 - No comments
Billionaire Bill Gates has unleashed his team of technological code monkeys upon Edinburgh’s virtual cityscape, with outlandish results. Having recently set up shop in Waverley Gate, Gates...
9 Sep 2008 - No comments
Deramore Property Group and the Hugh Martin Partnership have lodged a planning application for a 100 bedroom hotel and department store at 121 Princes Street.  Fashion retailer New Look has...
9 Sep 2008 - No comments
Adding to a spate of job losses announced recently comes news that Michael Laird Architects has laid off five members of staff. Speaking to Architecture Scotland, Michael Laird Architects...
9 Sep 2008 - No comments
A further round of value-engineering is to be imposed upon Zaha Hadid’s transport museum in Glasgow. In a report the council said: “A number of potential cost savings have been identified,...
9 Sep 2008 - No comments
As one of Edinburgh’s leading architects, Richard Murphy is well used to garnering flak.  But proposition of a 17 storey hotel in haymarket has excited an unprecedented storm of opposition...
9 Sep 2008 - No comments
Aluminium systems supplier Kawneer, have announced that two types of curtain walling will be installed on a speculative Grade A office project on Wellington Street, Glasgow. Approved...
10 Sep 2008 - No comments
South Lanarkshire Council have launched full online access to planning submissions, negating the need to traipse down to council offices. A fully searchable database will allow individuals to...
10 Sep 2008 - No comments
Prospect set sail with Aedas through stormy economic waters for the launch of the practices landmark £100 million Bothwell Plaza scheme.  But will the architects sail rings around the...
10 Sep 2008 - No comments
A 76% fall in the volume of home completions in Edinburgh for the second quarter of this year has been reported by the National House-Building Council (NHBC).  These showed a mere 161 new build...
10 Sep 2008 - No comments
Edinburgh Zoo are to mount a challenge against a council ruling that forbids the sale of green belt land for housing.   The zoo is keen to press ahead with a land sale which, it is hoped,...
11 Sep 2008 - No comments
Nord have been approached with a view to extending Clifton House, a 1960’s office block within the Park Conservation area of Glasgow City Centre. Existing spaces within the building are to...
11 Sep 2008 - No comments
Aedas Architects have unveiled striking concepts for a duo of talls more akin to the booming economies of the Far and Middle East than musty Tradeston. A skeletal sail taller than the Kingston...
11 Sep 2008 - No comments
The prestigious Venice Biennale gets underway today and Scotland has booked a prime spot at the Piazzale della Stazione Santa Lucia, directly opposite the main train station. This presence aims to...
11 Sep 2008 - No comments
A 15 year plan to attract £300 million of investment to Stirling has been launched by the Stirling Development Agency (SDA), comprising Valad Property Group and Stirling Council. The...
12 Sep 2008 - No comments
Two timber houses designed by John Gilbert Architects for Albyn Housing Association Ltd, in partnership with the Forestry Commission, have started on site at Glenmore within the Cairngorms National...
12 Sep 2008 - No comments
Architecture Scotland hears that the Six Cities design festival has been scrapped by the SNP Government.  Said one source on the Architecture Scotland forum: "...all the six cities staff were in...

Back to Site Search

Search News
Subscribe to Urban Realm Magazine
Features & Reports
For more information from the industry visit our Features & Reports section.