Buildings Archive 2008

The quality of recent additions to the rural housing stock has left much to be desired, with a high proportion of kit houses that have box like rooms and windows ordered from catalogues. The McKay House is designed to reflect a confident and...

The hyndland after school club provides before and after school care for p1 – p7’s. Abbozzo’s remit was to create additional space, and to create a playful sculptural element comprising of: Staff mezzanine...

This new two-storey school is designed to suit its sloping site and is grouped around a private, landscaped courtyard. It has been designed specifically for eighty pupils with moderate learning difficulties Materials that are recycled, reused...

Located on a brownfield site on the banks of the Forth and Clyde Canal, the Mondriaan development consists of 4 storey flats, 2 storey flats and townhouses with associated private parking and amenity spaces. Borrowing influences from Borneo...

For some time now, the practice has been working with Sapphire Primary Care Developments (PCD), a primary care developer, which offers GP surgeries and NHS Trusts tailored made premises which seek to meet all their requirements within their...

Main Street, Mossend is a regeneration project incorporating mixed use functions in an environmental and socially responsive manner. The primary objective is to provide affordable housing and assist in the regeneration of local businesses by...

First public swimming pool and spa facility on the Isle of Mull

inspire is an award winning registered charity that aims to improve the quality of life for people with learning disabilities in North East Scotland. The charity approached Space Solutions to tender for developing a design for a 12,500sq ft...

The site for this house was created from a portion of garden of an existing listed Victorian detached house in an affluent residential area on the west of Edinburgh's city centre. The proposal by zone architects is for a new sandstone villa...

RMJM was commissioned in February 2005 to design a new music and performing arts centre for Stevenson College in Edinburgh. The 2,000m2, two-storey Music Box is a single, bold form that contains a variety of teaching spaces, purpose built to...

SMC Jenkins & Marr’s new £33M Clydebank College Campus is the major catalyst in a bold new urban regeneration project, on the site of the former John Brown Shipyard. The project is the largest single site Further Education campus...

The purpose-built new Gartnavel Royal Hospital has set a new benchmark for mental health design in the UK. The hospital is part of a wider master plan for the development of the Gartnavel site in Glasgow as well as for the provision of improved...

This House was Designed and built for Jean Elvidge, a unique lady, private yet outgoing with a passion for sailing and the sea and this is reflected in the Design of her home. Imagine yourself walking down to a private beach somewhere on your own...

WT Architecture (William Tunnell’s Practice) has recently completed an unusual ‘Sitootery’ in Edinburgh.  A deceptively simple curved plate roof provides additional living space open to a long thin garden whilst knitting...