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28 Feb 2018 - No comments
Lawrence McPherson Architects have returned to Premier Inn at Glasgow’s Pacific Quay four years after checking out with a 180-room waterfront hotel. Invited back by Whitbread to design a...
27 Feb 2018 - No comments
Glencairn properties have gone back to the drawing board with plans for a canalside residential and office development in the Fountainbridge area of Edinburgh with updated detailed proposals for...
27 Feb 2018 - No comments
A stalled six-star Jumeirah hotel development site on Glasgow’s Argyle Street is back in contention after being bought by Vanguard Real Estate to accommodate a 280,000sq/ft office block in...
26 Feb 2018 - No comments
Clydeside Regeneration Ltd has begun construction work at Clydebank’s Queens Quay , marking the start of the delivery phase for the £250m waterfront project. Engineering firm George Leslie...
26 Feb 2018 - No comments
Leith is set to reach for the skies following submission of plans to erect 237 homes arranged across four separate ‘fingers’ up to 13 storeys in height by Comprehensive Design Architects and S1...
26 Feb 2018 - No comments
Craighead Properties together with Cooper Cromar Architects have unveiled plans for a significant new residential development of 369 homes at the junction of Cathcart and Caledonia Roads in...
23 Feb 2018 - No comments
Dundee City Council has confirmed completion of the authority’s newest secondary school, a £28.5m campus that also includes Sidlaw View Primary and Jessie Porter – both of which are already in...
23 Feb 2018 - No comments
Interserve and Tiger Developments have reworked previously consented plans for The Haymarket , a mixed-use development on the site of a former railway goods yard off Morrison Street, Edinburgh,...
22 Feb 2018 - No comments
An application has been filed to extend planned demolition work at the B-listed Spectrum House, an historic tenement at 286 Clyde Street, under the dangerous buildings act as part of a £90m...
22 Feb 2018 - No comments
Pupils have begun lessons at the new Campbeltown Grammar following handover of the £26m school by Morrison Construction and Hub North. With capacity for up to 500 pupils the school boasts...
21 Feb 2018 - No comments
Boroughmuir High School has welcomed staff and students to its new build home with the formal transfer of all resources and equipment from its historic B listed home, which will now be...
21 Feb 2018 - No comments
LDN Architects have filed for permission to extend an existing science centre and library at Edinburgh Academy by way of a connected teaching and learning space as well as a multi-purpose hall....
21 Feb 2018 - No comments
South Ayrshire Council have launched a consultation into plans to create an amalgamated ‘super school’ within the grounds of the existing Carrick Academy. The £42m campus would bring...
21 Feb 2018 - No comments
Maven and IP Investment Management have struck a deal to build Stirling’s first purpose-built student accommodation block to meet growing tenant demand. Susan Stephens Architects are behind...
21 Feb 2018 - No comments
3DReid have broken ground on a £3.5m overhaul of Almondvale West Retail Park in Livingston, dragging a row of ‘dated’ units into the 21st century. Dominated by a flagship Next outlet...
20 Feb 2018 - No comments
CALA Homes are embracing townhouse living at Kilmardinny, Bearsden, a series of 18 three-storey homes. The first townhouses of their type to be built by the developer on the west coast the...
19 Feb 2018 - No comments
Dumfries & Galloway Council has is set to bring the story of Peter Pan to life after allocating £7.4m of funding to transform an historic Dumfries home credited by author JM Barrie with inspiring...
19 Feb 2018 - No comments
Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has lent his support to a Cooper Cromar designed hotel, office block and homes currently being built directly opposite his own V&A project , describing the scheme as...
19 Feb 2018 - No comments
BoyesRees Architects have brought forward plans to create a custom-built student accommodation block at 179 Canongate in Edinburgh’s Old Town Conservation Area. This will require...
16 Feb 2018 - No comments
AHR have lodged plans for a new Madras College in the Langlands area of St Andrews, ending years of debate over the final location for the £50m unified campus. Madras College presently...
16 Feb 2018 - No comments
Urban Realm is calling for submissions to appear in this year’s Architecture Scotland Annual, our regular look at the best new buildings to have appeared in the country over the past 12 months....
16 Feb 2018 - No comments
Kevin Fawcett, developer behind Edinburgh Marina , has put his firepower into efforts to restore an historic gunpowder store at Granton Harbour. Currently languishing on the Buildings at Risk...
15 Feb 2018 - No comments
An historic church in Forfar’s conservation area is to be bulldozed after Angus councilors gave their blessing to plans by the congregation to replace it with a new build community centre, on the...
15 Feb 2018 - No comments
Glasgow City Council has confirmed that restoration work has now begun on the A-listed British Linen Bank building on Gorbals Street, Laurieston. The 1900 tenement sits on a prominent spot...
15 Feb 2018 - No comments
New Land Assets have opened consultations on the creation of a roadside services and retail park on the outskirts of Tweedbank; Including a BP filling station and M&S food store off Melrose...
15 Feb 2018 - No comments
CALA Homes West has marked the topping out of the first apartment building at its latest development, a 101-home scheme at 21 Mansionhouse Road , Langside, within the grounds of the former...
14 Feb 2018 - No comments
Ryder Architecture have showcased their work at Wick Community Campus , a combined high school, primary and community facility within the Caithness community. A finalist in the Royal Town...
13 Feb 2018 - No comments
EMA have designed a major residential expansion around Edinburgh’s Bio Quarter and Edinburgh Royal Infirmary to the south east of the city. Edmonstone Estate will comprise 800 family...
13 Feb 2018 - No comments
Ryder Architecture have handed over Lerwick’s Anderson High School enabling 1,180 students and staff to obtain their first taste of the UK’s most northerly high school. Situated on the...
13 Feb 2018 - No comments
Glasgow Housing Association and CCG have moved on-site with 45 homes for mid-market rent on the site of the former Victoria Primary School in Govanhill, Glasgow. The Batson Street build has...
12 Feb 2018 - No comments
The original design team behind Aberdeen’s ill-fated City Gardens project have lifted the wraps on a similar project in Moscow, Russia, illustrating what could have been. Zaryadye Park...
12 Feb 2018 - No comments
Fortis Developments have appointed Hardies to deliver a Hackland + Dore designed student accommodation block at Stanley Street, Edinburgh, approved on appeal back in September 2016 . Planners...
12 Feb 2018 - No comments
Plans have been submitted to convert and restore the C-listed Rosslynlee Hospital to form 68 apartments following demolition of the morgue, boiler house and sundry outbuildings. Part of a...
9 Feb 2018 - No comments
Riverside Inverclyde Property Holdings have secured consent to progress a novel food and drink incubator in Greenock. Plans for Baker Street Food & Drink Enterprises have been prepared by...
9 Feb 2018 - No comments
Dundee City Council has marked the start of preparatory works to deliver a mixed-use waterfront development within a matter of days. Our Enterprise are set to progress plans for the HTA...
9 Feb 2018 - No comments
Sutherland Hussey Harris have notified City of Edinburgh Council of their intent to remodel the entrance spaces to Waverley Mall East at the Waverley Steps. This would entail the removal of...
9 Feb 2018 - No comments
Sonia Browse Architects are to open a drop-in consultation on their plans to convert St James Church, Portobello, into four family homes. Work began late last year to build three townhouses...
9 Feb 2018 - No comments
Loretto Housing Association has begun work to transform an historic Glasgow school dating from 1931 into much needed new housing for older tenants, saving the structure from further decay after it...
8 Feb 2018 - No comments
Keppie Design have filed finalised plans with East Ayrshire Council for the first phase of their Halo masterplan in Kilmarnock . Situated on a former Johnnie Walker bottling plant the...
8 Feb 2018 - No comments
A former paper mill in Guardbridge, location of the University of St Andrews’ satellite Eden Campus , is to be transformed into a £4m distillery and brewery. Eden Mill are spearheading the...
8 Feb 2018 - No comments
Cooper Cromar have been commissioned by Clyde Gateway to follow-up their design work on the proposed Red business centre by creating a ‘hybrid’ industrial estate next door. Located...
8 Feb 2018 - No comments
O’DonnellBrown Architects have come forward with plans for 206 homes, a shop and community hub for former industrial land off Maxwell Road , East Pollokshields, Glasgow. The Foundry aims to...
8 Feb 2018 - No comments
Build to rent developer Platform_’s expansion has seen it acquire a waterfront site at Glasgow’s Central Quay from harbert Management Corporation and XLB Property, who achieved planning...
7 Feb 2018 - No comments
McGinlay Bell Architects have expressed delight after their proposals for a two-storey detached house and driveway in Bearsden won consent from planners at East Dunbartonshire Council. A...
7 Feb 2018 - No comments
Hawkins\Brown Architects have been beaten off competition from five other shortlisted practices to be chosen by the University of Glasgow to lead design development of a new College of Arts as part...
6 Feb 2018 - No comments
Mast Architects have delivered a sensitive residential infill on a tight site sandwiched between a Victorian villa and terraced housing in Stevenston, North Ayrshire. Situated on the corner of...
6 Feb 2018 - No comments
Egyptian Halls owner Derek Souter has revived plans to carve out a ‘Thomson-Mackintosh Mews’ route connecting the A listed landmark directly with the nearby Lighthouse -by way of a new build on...
6 Feb 2018 - No comments
A collaborative venture between Stewart Milne Homes, Haus Collective and Scottish Enterprise to transform a former dock on the south bank of the Clyde into a residential community has signaled the...
5 Feb 2018 - No comments
Aberdeen City Council has approved a lighting strategy that will see a dozen creative lighting projects undertaken across various landmarks, streetscapes, waterfront and civic spaces....
5 Feb 2018 - No comments
The RIAS has broken its silence on ‘concerning’ press reports enveloping the organisation by seeking to assuage its membership that governance and financial concerns are being addressed without...
2 Feb 2018 - No comments
A 1960s home in St Andrews has found itself in the firing line in efforts to build eight new build apartments within the towns conservation area . The desirable address has attracted the...
2 Feb 2018 - No comments
Keppie Design have marked completion of a new hospice in Singapore, designed in tandem with local practice New Space Architects as part of its push into Asia . The Assisi Hospice provides 85...
1 Feb 2018 - No comments
Springburn Park Winter Gardens Trust are inviting architects to come forward to help it develop objectives and feasibility studies for the decaying Victorian landmark in North Glasgow. In...
1 Feb 2018 - No comments
Stewart Milne Homes have filed a request for full planning permission to build 203 homes adjacent to Festival Park at Glasgow’s Pacific Quay . Overseen by Haus Architects the scheme will...
1 Feb 2018 - No comments
An historic townhouse at the corner of Glasgow’s West Regent and West Campbell Street is in line for demolition following the submission of plans by Ark Architecture + Design and Suite Street to...
1 Feb 2018 - No comments
Urban Realm is turning its attention to interior design with a spring focus on this key sector as we unleash an in-depth survey to furnish you with insider knowledge on where the industry is headed...

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