Current Issue

The current issue of Urban Realm contains articles on:

• Broadford Works - Urban Realm rummages around the largest collection of A listed buildings in Scotland currently classed as at risk - Broadford Works. Grand plans are being drawn up to reinvigorate this evocative industrial landscape of chimneys and mills into a new mixed use development.
• City Gardens - Following its unconventional approval by a referendum Aberdeen's City gardens might actually make the leap from drawing board to reality. Urban Realm assesses its chances.
• Dome Sweet Dome - A look at a spate of Gurdwara building in Glasgow and how it could alter the city skyline.
• Awards reviews - With a glut of award schemes competing for your attention we take a look behind the scenes of some of the biggest to see what they offer entrants and how they differ in their execution.
• Glen Fruin - Site of one of the last clan battles to take place in Scotland this enigmatic valley now plays host to her Majesty's naval base Clyde. Photographer Mark Chalmers gains access to the base to document its work as home to the UKs nuclear deterrent.
• Carbon Trust Awards - Urban Realm profiles the winners of this year's Carbon Trust low carbon building awards, looking at the key design features which mark these projects out as exemplars in the field of low carbon design.
• Marlaw House - Gareth Hoskins bespoke Glasgow villa certainly has plenty of kerb appeal thanks to its dramatic modernist forms. Taking a look inside we assess what it is like to live in.
• Fife Housing Showcase - A novel approach to sustainability is currently taking shape in a Fife field. Promising to learn the lessons from Scotland's Housing Expo and build homes which are above all affordable its developers are hoping to make a splash this spring. We take a closer look.
• Linwood revisited - Urban Realm returns to the 2011 Carbuncle town to speak with local community leaders and sketch out some solutions for establishing a proper heart.
• Kericho Cathedral - Urban Realm gains a first-hand account of life and work in Kenya as Peter McLaughlin recounts the sights, sounds, smells and experiences of Africa as he progresses work on a contemporary concrete and timber cathedral.
• TOP 20 contractors - shortlist