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20 May 2013 - 1 comment
A public consultation has begun into a possible World Heritage bid for the Forth railway bridge, to inform the development of a World Heritage Management Plan for the site.
For 12 weeks...
20 May 2013 - 0 comments
An extensive international photographic library, designed to serve as an open resource for young researchers in the built environment, has been updated to include 6,200 images, following a...
17 May 2013 - 0 comments
The University of Strathclyde has unveiled its Power Networks Demonstration Centre in Cumbernauld, the first electricity grid research centre in Europe.
Stretching to 900 sq/m the £12.5m...
17 May 2013 - 0 comments
Plans for a £37m expansion of the South Quay at Nigg Energy Park have been submitted to Highland Council by Global Energy Group.
The scheme makes available an additional 1,000m of quayside for...
16 May 2013 - 0 comments
Campbeltown’s A-listed Picture House is celebrating its centenary with a birthday bash and fundraising campaign to finance renovation work to its art deco interior.
This work will include...
16 May 2013 - 0 comments
The first phase of a redevelopment of Edinburgh’s Telford College has completed with the release of 89 apartments at mid-market rents.
Developed by Miller Homes, who formed a limited...
16 May 2013 - 0 comments
Aberdeen City Council has lodged a formal invitation for bidders on a £15m road bridge, spanning the river Don.
Known as ‘The Third Don Crossing’ the scheme has been in the works from as...
15 May 2013 - 0 comments
Maggie’s Newcastle, the latest in a series of cancer support centres to be completed by the charity , is to be officially unveiled tomorrow at the city’s Freeman Hospital.
Designed by...
15 May 2013 - 1 comment
Five architecture practices have been shortlisted from a total of 24 bidders to undertake a £3m transformation of Kilmartin House Museum, Argyll.
This will see Anderson Bell Christie, Lee...
15 May 2013 - 0 comments
Work to remodel the University of Dundee’s School of Medicine has progressed to a second phase following the appointment of interiors specialists ISG to undertake a £1.2m fit out; including the...
14 May 2013 - 0 comments
Safedem have brought to bear their latest acquisition, a concrete chewing high reach crane, to the site of Dundee’s Tayside House to speed up clearance of the 18 storey block .
The machine...
14 May 2013 - 0 comments
Kingdom Housing Association has appointed City Architecture Office to develop design proposals for a development of over 50 affordable houses and apartments at Saline, Fife.
These will be...
13 May 2013 - 3 comments
Work to renovate Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre, the second oldest theatre in the UK, has advanced with the appointment of Turner & Townsend as cost managers.
The £6.5m project is being...
13 May 2013 - 1 comment
An 8ft sculpture representing the industrial heritage of Shotts, North Lanarkshire, has been unveiled as the centrepiece of the towns newly landscaped Dykehead Cross.
Designed by sculptor...
13 May 2013 - 1 comment
A fully self-sufficient ‘eco farmhouse’ has been unwrapped by Mark Waghorn Architects in Moniaive, Dumfries & Galloway. Built for the Gourlay family, who have been tending land in the Cairn...
13 May 2013 - 4 comments
The district of Partick in Glasgow has reinforced its status as a student housing hotspot following the submission of plans by Liverpool based developer Downing for a further 729 units....
13 May 2013 - 0 comments
Work to build the UK’s first purpose built sexual assault centre has been completed at Antrim Area Hospital, Northern Ireland, on behalf of Northern Social Care Trust.
The Rowan was...
10 May 2013 - 2 comments
Critics of a £4.7m plan drawn up by Inverclyde Council and Riverside Inverclyde to transform Gourock town centre are calling on the Scottish Government to call the scheme in for review over...
10 May 2013 - 0 comments
The Salvation Army has completed work on a new outdoor seating space for service users at its Edinburgh ‘LifeHouse’ in collaboration with live-build specialists Tog Studio .
Known as a...
10 May 2013 - 0 comments
Ogilvie Construction have moved on-site of a new 180 bed Premier Inn at Glasgow’s Pacific Quay in a fast track build to deliver the scheme in time for the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Designed...
10 May 2013 - 9 comments
The Scott Sutherland School of Architecture’s MArch Unit are putting the finishing touches to a two year study into a hypothetical new settlement on the Cuningar Loop in the east end of Glasgow -...
9 May 2013 - 0 comments
Paul Stallan, design director of Stallan-Brand, has unveiled his latest artwork – a three dimensional painting which puts architecture at its core.
Installed within a boatshed at the...
9 May 2013 - 0 comments
Moxon Architects have submitted a planning application to Aberdeenshire Council for the restoration, conversion and extension of the B listed Todhead Lighthouse, Stonehaven, to form a two bedroom...
8 May 2013 - 2 comments
Six companies are being invited to tender for infrastructure work to enable the first phase of development at Chapelton, the Aberdeenshire New Town .
This will see enabling works such as...
8 May 2013 - 2 comments
Map Property and Leisure Springside Ltd together with Fountain North have submitted plans for the construction of a 181 bed Hyatt Place hotel at Fountainbridge, Edinburgh.
Designed by...
7 May 2013 - 0 comments
A shortlist of four firms competing to construct the long-delayed Aberdeen bypass has been published following the agreement of a £745m funding package.
The four consortia in the running are;...
7 May 2013 - 5 comments
Phase one work to overhaul Irvine’s Bridgegate House has been completed following a year long refit conducted by Graham Construction and Ian Springford Architects.
Progressed by Irvine Bay...
3 May 2013 - 3 comments
Aberdeen based Knight Property Group has revealed plans to transform an empty Union Street theatre into a towering speculative office block.
Designed by Keppie the £30m plan would see the...
3 May 2013 - 2 comments
Plans have been submitted for the construction of a 54 bed waterfront hotel and 30 flats on Kirkcaldy’s Esplanade , with the developer claiming work could begin as early as July.
Financed...
3 May 2013 - 1 comment
Ryder Architecture is to mark their 60th anniversary with the opening of a fortnight long exhibition of their work at Glasgow’s Briggait from 10 May.
Charting developments from the...
