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29 Mar 2018 - No comments
Spire View Housing Association and Grant Murray Architects are collaborating on the delivery of 24 flats , replacing a former clinic building dating from the 1930s. Modelled on adjacent...
29 Mar 2018 - No comments
Midlothian Council has partnered with Austin-Smith:Lord Architects to invite views on the planned transformation of the historic venue. ‘A Town Hall for All’ will engage 2,500 school pupils...
28 Mar 2018 - No comments
Dualchas Architects have authored a feasibility study into a new visitor exhibition, restaurant and shop on the Isle of Skye on behalf of Norwegian seafood firm Marine Harvest. Intended to add to...
28 Mar 2018 - No comments
The developers behind the redevelopment of the former Ravenscraig steelworks near Motherwell have submitted their latest masterplan for the sprawling brownfield regeneration site. Spurred by...
28 Mar 2018 - No comments
Candidates competing to become the next president of The Glasgow Institute of Architects have set out their stall ahead of a planned vote taking place on 12 April to agree a successor to incumbent...
28 Mar 2018 - No comments
Reform minded architects have expressed encouragement following a commitment by the RIAS Council to undertake a raft of reforms in line with demands set out by campaign group A New Chapter....
27 Mar 2018 - No comments
Whitbread is to continue aggressive expansion of its Premier Inn brand with proposals for a 96-bedroom hotel and restaurant at the junction of Townhead Street and the A723 on the edge of Hamilton...
27 Mar 2018 - No comments
CCG have commenced delivery of a 28-home amenity housing project in Coatbridge specifically designed to meet the needs of elderly residents. Commissioned by Loretto Housing Association the...
27 Mar 2018 - No comments
Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park has approved the development of 20 affordable homes in Balmaha by Rural Stirling Housing Association, helping to meet demand for accommodation in the...
26 Mar 2018 - No comments
West Dunbartonshire Council has taken possession of its newest school following delivery of a £16m campus drawing together three separate schools under one roof. Delivered by Morgan Sindall...
26 Mar 2018 - No comments
The National Trust for Scotland has firmed up its arresting ‘Big Box’ conservation project at Helensburgh’s Hill House to provide temporary shelter while essential conservation work is...
26 Mar 2018 - No comments
Barratt Homes have brought forward plans for three-storey townhouses in Cumbernauld as part of a wider development of detached housing at Auchenkilns, close to the M80. Marketed as an...
23 Mar 2018 - No comments
Greenstead Properties have come forward with their intent to demolish an unlisted house and detached garage at the junction of Queensferry and Cammo Road’s, Edinburgh, in order to erect six...
23 Mar 2018 - No comments
The University of Edinburgh is championing the relocation of student counselling, pharmacy and disability services to a Wellbeing Centre at Bristo Square designed by Page\Park. This will...
22 Mar 2018 - No comments
Glasgow City Council has put its weight behind an action plan to develop 90 underutilised lanes crisscrossing the city centre in a bid to breathe new life into forgotten spaces. Part of a...
22 Mar 2018 - No comments
Mackie Ramsay Taylor Architects are proposing to build 130 affordable homes between the River Dee and Abbotswell Road in Aberdeen on disused industrial land, supplanting a previously approved...
22 Mar 2018 - No comments
An unpreposessing garden room modelled on the form of a leaf within the grounds of Dundee's Ninewells Hospital has been recognised as the best new place in the Scottish Civic Trust My Place Awards....
21 Mar 2018 - No comments
Plans for a ‘food and retail village’ off the A9 at Tomatin Junction have been unveiled, to include a 97-bed hotel, shops, restaurant, drive through bakery, supermarket and filling station...
21 Mar 2018 - No comments
Simpson & Brown have marked the handover of a new visitor centre at Torabhaig Distillery which is now welcoming visitors on the whisky trail. Torabhaig is Skye’s second distillery and caters...
20 Mar 2018 - No comments
Queensberry Properties are striking out west after taking possession of a residential development site at Otago Lane in the heart of Glasgow’s west end with planning consent for 45 flats and...
20 Mar 2018 - No comments
Three large-scale landscapes have been earmarked for £5.6m of investment by the National Lottery as part of measures to bolster biodiversity across 700sq/km of countryside. The North Isles in...
20 Mar 2018 - No comments
TheNue Housing Association and Mast Architects are spearheading plans to rejuvenate a brownfield site bounded by Abercromby, Tobago and Frake Street’s in the heart of Glasgow’s east end to form...
20 Mar 2018 - No comments
The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) has showcased a 25-strong shortlist for its 2018 awards, whittled down from 76 entries received from around the country. This year’s...
19 Mar 2018 - No comments
Planning permission is being sought for a £19m health centre at Queens Quay, Clydebank , part of a £250m regeneration of the former John Brown’s shipyard. Arranged over three-levels the...
19 Mar 2018 - No comments
CCG have been granted a green-light by Glasgow City Council to push ahead with 156 new homes at Riverford Road in Pollokshaws. Construction of Riverford Gardens is set to begin this spring...
16 Mar 2018 - No comments
IBI Group have tabled their finished designs for 299 private flats at Aberdeen’s Hill of Rubislaw overlooking a disused granite quarry. Circling the southern flank of the flooded...
16 Mar 2018 - No comments
North Ayrshire Council has followed its counterparts in North Lanarkshire with news that it is openly considering removing all high-rise housing from its books, subject to consultation with...
15 Mar 2018 - No comments
Central Demolition are to clear the way for a 94,000sq/ft office development in Glasgow city centre later this month after funding was secured to progress the speculative build by Fore Partnership....
15 Mar 2018 - No comments
Initial designs for a purpose-built music venue and performance space in Edinburgh have been unveiled by the International Music and Performing Arts Charitable Trust, to accompany the latest public...
15 Mar 2018 - No comments
Line Architecture are to rescue a Victorian public convenience from obscurity by capitalising on its close proximity to Glasgow Cathedral and transform it into a modest 70sq/m café . This...
14 Mar 2018 - No comments
A quartet of bidders have been shortlisted by City for the right to deliver a proposed extension of Edinburgh’s controversial tram network from York Place to Newhaven. BAM Colas Rail,...
14 Mar 2018 - No comments
Moda & Apache Capital Partners have obtained planning consent, clearing the way for delivery of 433 build-to-rent homes on the site of the former Strathclyde Police HQ in Glasgow City Centre....
14 Mar 2018 - No comments
Glasgow City Council is spearheading the extension of an existing Gaelic School at Berkeley Street, Finnieston, to accommodate a four-court sports hall and associated facilities. Designed to...
13 Mar 2018 - No comments
Edinburgh University has won planning consent from North Lanarkshire Council to erect a purpose-built rowing centre at Strathclyde Country Park . Incorporating an equipment store and on-site...
13 Mar 2018 - No comments
West Port & Company have come forward with plans to turn a portion of the former Portree Golf Course, currently in use as grazing land, to host 27 ‘camping pods’, supporting infrastructure and...
12 Mar 2018 - No comments
Argyll & Bute Council is holding a series of pre-application consultations into its plans to build an £18m waterfront leisure centre in Helensburgh together with associated flood defences....
12 Mar 2018 - No comments
CCG have broken ground on 24 amenity flats off Crieff Road in Perth as part of a commitment by Perth & Kinross Council’s new build council house programme. Due to complete in February of...
12 Mar 2018 - No comments
Springfield Properties have showcased a £23m development of 49 affordable homes in Edinburgh’s Muirhouse district, delivered in partnership with Dunedin Canmore and Muirhouse Housing...
9 Mar 2018 - No comments
Optimised Environments have drawn up plans for a new area of parkland, café, water features and an ‘urban beach’ in Dundee on behalf of the city council as the latest component of its...
9 Mar 2018 - No comments
Robertson Northern have broken ground on the first of a new breed of justice centres as it begins delivery of new court and tribunals facilities in Inverness. Timetabled to complete late next...
8 Mar 2018 - No comments
Jonathan Reeve, an architect at the Voigt Partnership, has branched out from Arbroath for an exotic commission in Africa after designing a school and cultural centre for the Maasai tribe in Kenya....
8 Mar 2018 - No comments
AMA are spearheading plans to reinvigorate Edinburgh’s Springwell House , a C-listed vacant office building on Gorgie Road, by way of conversion to 39 apartments, seven townhouses and two...
7 Mar 2018 - No comments
The Highland Council have brought forward plans to revitalise Merkinch Primary School & Nursery , Inverness, by way of an extension and full refurbishment together with demolition of non-original...
7 Mar 2018 - No comments
Galashiels has been earmarked for the construction of 19 new flats for private rent at Burns Mill and Roxburgh Street, by a local design and build company. Borders Low Carbon Developments...
6 Mar 2018 - No comments
Entries are now invited for the 2018 Scottish Design Awards , the annual showcase for the best architecture and design commissions to have been completed over the previous 12 months. For the...
6 Mar 2018 - No comments
Inverness Campus is set for further growth with the appointment of Robertson Construction by Highlands and Islands Enterprise to deliver a £4.5m life sciences building. Solasta House has...
5 Mar 2018 - No comments
Investors are being sought to help finance a 265,000sq/ft Grade A office development at 177 Bothwell Street, Glasgow, sister scheme to a smaller 155,000sq/ft office build at 122 Waterloo Street ....
5 Mar 2018 - No comments
Four tower cranes have been erected on-site at Edinburgh’s St James Centre signifying the start of construction works at the 1.7m retail-led quarter by Laing O’Rourke. The quartet of...
2 Mar 2018 - No comments
A £1m reconfiguration of the Sgoil Chrois Museum and archive on the Isle of Lewis is set to swing into action within the next fortnight, with Bard Ailteir Architects sensitively updating the...
1 Mar 2018 - No comments
NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde have specified a twin 20-bed ward unit and associated facilities to expand its acute adult and elderly care capacity at Stobhill Hospital. Keppie have been...
1 Mar 2018 - No comments
Construction sites have fallen silent across the Central Belt as workers heed advice to stay at home amidst unusually severe snowfalls that have brought much of the Central Belt to a juddering...

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