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30 Nov 2016 - No comments
A two-stream primary school campus and nursery has been given the all clear by Aberdeen City Council, clearing the way for a start on-site to be made at the former Bankhead Academy in January next...
30 Nov 2016 - No comments
Landscape design specialists LUC have been selected to take the helm of a £3m public realm improvement project on Irvine High Street by North Ayrshire Council. Extending recent work at the...
29 Nov 2016 - No comments
Architects behind a proposed new school within Perth’s Bertha Park development have staged a community consultation event outlining their approach to the 1,100 pupil high school. The...
29 Nov 2016 - No comments
City of Edinburgh Council is to press ahead with a £35m regeneration project at North Sighthill in February of next year after finalizing contracts for the build. Designed by Anderson Bell...
29 Nov 2016 - No comments
FetLor Youth Club have shown off new purpose built accommodation at Crewe Road South, Edinburgh, following delivery by Hardies, who served as project manager, quantity surveyor on the build....
28 Nov 2016 - No comments
Sanctuary Scotland have prepared plans for the construction of 180 homes at the former Craigbank housing estate in Nitshill , Glasgow, to be delivered by CCG and Mast Architects. Comprising a...
28 Nov 2016 - No comments
Kenneth Reid Architects have put together proposals for replacement of an existing mechanics garage at Thirlstane Lane, Edinburgh , with three homes on behalf of JNL Property Investments....
25 Nov 2016 - No comments
Sheppard Robson have drawn up revised plans for a beefed-up office development at 177 Bothwell Street , Glasgow, second phase of HFD Property Group’s Bothwell Exchange . Offering...
25 Nov 2016 - No comments
Corryard Developments are to host an open day for their newly completed conversion of a Victorian villa in Crieff, updating the historic home to form three apartments with two houses in the...
24 Nov 2016 - No comments
The latest addition to Edinburgh’s mushrooming student housing has opened its doors in Dalry, 18 months after CCG began work on the modular build . The Orwell Terrace project provides a...
24 Nov 2016 - No comments
Artisan Real Estate Investors are to take possession of an early Christmas present this year with the December opening of the 146-apartment Aparthotels Adagio, a new public square and walkway at...
24 Nov 2016 - No comments
Work has begun on the restoration of the Mackintosh Library at the Glasgow School of Art with the removal of windows and stone piers now well underway by contractor Kier Construction. The...
24 Nov 2016 - No comments
A £144m tram link connecting Glasgow Airport to the city centre via Paisley Gilmour Street Station has been unveiled by the air hub, a key plank of the £1.13bn Glasgow City Region Deal. The...
23 Nov 2016 - No comments
Aberdeen Football Club has provided fresh detail on its intent to build a new stadium at Kingsford in addition to a football academy, community and sports campus at a public exhibition at...
23 Nov 2016 - No comments
The University of Edinburgh is progressing plans to sweep away a double-height link building conjoining the Lister Institute and Pfizer building at Hill Square with a Reiach & Hall designed...
23 Nov 2016 - No comments
CMM Architects are leading plans to build a nine storey aparthotel and street level coffee shop on vacant ground at the junction of Sauchiehall Lane and Blythswood Street, Glasgow. Offering...
23 Nov 2016 - No comments
The Scottish Courts & Tribunals Service have published finalised plans for a new Justice Centre on the site of a former bus depot at Burnett Road, Inverness . Design work undertaken by...
23 Nov 2016 - No comments
LMA Architects are to extend a Premier Inn hotel at Pacific Quay, Glasgow, just 18 months after the original hotel opened its doors . A five-storey addition is proposed to be built over a...
22 Nov 2016 - No comments
Ayr Renaissance, a body formed by South Ayrshire Council to lead the regeneration of Ayr town centre has submitted an ambitious waterfront masterplan. The Riverside Block has been devised by...
22 Nov 2016 - No comments
The Cairngorms National Park Authority have moved to recognise the best design within the park area, designating a private home at Newe, Strathdon, with their top honour. Strathdon House by...
22 Nov 2016 - No comments
J.A Leask Architects have put forward plans for a brewery, restaurant, bar and workshop on Haugh Road , in Glasgow’s burgeoning Finnieston district, on behalf of House Brewery Company – owners...
21 Nov 2016 - No comments
Lawrence McPherson Associates have brought forward plans for the latest in a series of Premier Inn hotels around the country with a 60-bedroom establishment on Grampian Road, Aviemore ....
21 Nov 2016 - No comments
Plans drawn up by Alan G. W. Forbes have been submitted for the alteration and extension of an existing retail building on Aberdeen’s Lord Street to form 31 student flats . This will see...
18 Nov 2016 - No comments
Grant Murray Architects have drawn up plans to build 15 new homes at the former >Blawarthill Hospital, Knightswood , the site of which is to be turned into a care home by Glasgow City Council....
18 Nov 2016 - No comments
Glasgow City Council are to stage a drop-in event at The Ferry, 25 Anderston Quay, Glasgow between 11:00 and 21:00 on 24 November at which participants will be invited to give their input to the...
17 Nov 2016 - No comments
The Scottish Chamber Orchestra has teamed up with charitable trust Impact Scotland to propose a new base at St Andrew Square, Edinburgh, with a new 1,000 seat auditorium as its centerpiece....
17 Nov 2016 - No comments
A B-listed former garment factory on Glasgow’s Ingram Street is to be sympathetically restored to provide modern office accommodation following the award of a £5m fit-out contract to ISG.    ...
17 Nov 2016 - No comments
Kenneth Reid Architects have prepared proposals for 58 studio flats on the site of a former warehouse off Leith Walk, Edinburgh, in a sign of unfinished appetite for student housing amongst...
16 Nov 2016 - No comments
A sunken home in Glasgow’s west end has won approval by planning officials, clearing the way for construction to begin on the cameronwebster, MBLA and LCD Architecture scheme on the corner of...
16 Nov 2016 - No comments
Morgan Sindall have commenced delivery of a £15.3m school’s campus in Balloch which will merge three existing schools within one 53,280sq/ft building, replacing the former St Kessog’s...
15 Nov 2016 - No comments
A Victorian mews building in Dundee has been earmarked as a new design hub following submission of plans by Andrew Black Design to transform the Tay Street Lane property into a contemporary...
15 Nov 2016 - No comments
Lochalsh and Skye Housing Association have brought forward plans to deliver 17 affordable flats on the site of a former bus garage in Portree, Skye. The park Road site sits to the west of...
15 Nov 2016 - No comments
True Student Living are to roll out a new breed of ‘lifestyle’ student accommodation with launch of a student housing block in Glasgow which is said to offer a ‘premium’ experience to...
15 Nov 2016 - No comments
Glasgow City Council has given its blessing to a development framework for the canal corridor between Applecross and Firhill Basin’s in the Hamiltonhill area of the city. Prepared by Urban...
14 Nov 2016 - No comments
Michael Laird Architects and Royal Bank of Scotland have prepared a planning in principle application for the redevelopment of land at Dundas Street/Fettes Row , on land owned by the banking...
11 Nov 2016 - No comments
The City of Edinburgh Council is pressing ahead with measures to increase school’s capacity across the city with plans for a new gym hall to free up dining capacity at St Margaret’s RC...
11 Nov 2016 - No comments
A pair of Leith tower blocks immortalised in Trainspotting could become Edinburgh’s newest listed buildings following the launch of a consultation exercise by Historic Environment Scotland....
11 Nov 2016 - No comments
Hoskins Architects working in collaboration with landscape architects erz have designed a £2.8m ‘Garden of Playfulness’ to sit within the grounds of Brodie Castle. Morayshire....
11 Nov 2016 - No comments
City of Edinburgh Council has launched a pre-planning consultation over its intent to build a new sports complex at Meadowbank Stadium to replace existing facilities. Incorporating a 400m...
11 Nov 2016 - No comments
NHS Tayside have taken possession of a new garden room at Dundee’s Ninewells Hospital following delivery of a competition winning design by the Voigt partnership. Designed to offer an...
10 Nov 2016 - No comments
JLL and Knight Frank have begun seeking tenants for a converted cinema on Glasgow’s Renfield Street following submission of plans to convert the former entertainment venue and the successful...
10 Nov 2016 - No comments
Planning permission in principle is being sought for an ‘independent village’ for students and permanent residents at Heriot-Watt Universities Riccarton Campus. Led by landowner H&H Group...
10 Nov 2016 - No comments
The National Galleries of Scotland have given the most deteiled look yet at Hoskins Architects' ambitious plan to transform the Scottish National Gallery by improving connections to Princes...
9 Nov 2016 - No comments
An inexorable march of student housing continues with submission of plans prepared by Mederco to erect 169 self-contained studio flats on a high-visibility surface car park opposite Glasgow’s...
9 Nov 2016 - No comments
Allan Corfield Architects and McCallan Homes have moved on-site with a development of 12 modular flats on the site of the former Inverpark Hotel, Arbroath, in what is thought to be the first use of...
8 Nov 2016 - No comments
City of Edinburgh Council has put forward plans for additional classroom space at Liberton Primary as part of efforts to meet the challenge presented by rising rolls across the city through to...
8 Nov 2016 - No comments
CCG and Parc Craigmillar have rejuvenated the former Niddrie Mill Primary School through creation of 66 mixed tenure homes whilst retaining the school façade, which had deteriorated to a parlous...
7 Nov 2016 - No comments
Collective Architecture have been appointed by Sanctuary Group to draft plans for conversion and redevelopment of the former Victoria Infirmary, Glasgow, to provide 400 new homes. Careful...
7 Nov 2016 - No comments
A creative laboratory, zinc-clad home and a dramatic metamorphosis of a tired 1960’s building have led winners at this year’s GIA design awards chaired by Michal Cohen of Walters and Cohen...
5 Nov 2016 - No comments
The Heritage Lottery Fund has lent its backing to a significant conservation scheme at Garnock Valley, Ayrshire, which aims to restore the natural landscape from the Muirshiel Hills down to Irvine...
4 Nov 2016 - No comments
A long-standing gap-site on Glasgow’s Jamaica Street could soon be plugged following submission of plans by pub giant J.D. Wetherspoon to erect a KDPA-designed hotel. An extension to the...
4 Nov 2016 - No comments
Young & Gault Architects have dusted off plans to build a student housing development at Sandyford Street, Finnieston , to tap into growing demand for accommodation in close proximity to the...
3 Nov 2016 - No comments
Esh Border Construction are to begin work on a £3m transformation of the Calton Hill observatory , Edinburgh, later this week, realizing long-held plans to create a new restaurant and gallery...
3 Nov 2016 - No comments
Simpson & Brown, architects behind the Scottish Seabird Centre in North Berwick, have been appointed to lead work on developing outline proposals for a new National Marine Centre. A public...
2 Nov 2016 - No comments
Comprehensive Design Architects, acting on behalf of LaSalle Investment Management, have tabled plans for conversion of a listed BHS store at 64 Princes Street, Edinburgh , to form a hotel,...
2 Nov 2016 - No comments
Ayrshire College has thrown open its doors to students and staff following completion of its £53m Kilmarnock campus , situated on the site of a former bottling plant on Hill Street. The...
2 Nov 2016 - No comments
Page\Park have become the latest holders of the RIAS Andrew Doolan best building in Scotland award, courtesy of their work in delivering the Saunders Centre Science & technology building for...
1 Nov 2016 - No comments
Glasgow School of Art is pushing ahead with development of its Garnethill campus after securing a £500k donation toward conversion of the former Stow College and restoration of the Mackintosh...
1 Nov 2016 - No comments
Barratt Homes and David Wilson Homes have prepared plans for the development of land at Cathcart House, Glasgow , to form a residential development at the former Scottish Power HQ . The...

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