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30 Apr 2018 - No comments
Demolished Victorian housing at Perth’s East Bridge Street is up for replacement with an application to stabilize the site and build a like-for-like replica. Plans drawn up by Matthew...
30 Apr 2018 - No comments
Hackland and Dore Architects have obtained planning consent from Midlothian Council to build 14 homes on the site of a former market , most recently in use as a car park. Evantyr Developments...
30 Apr 2018 - No comments
The University of Stirling is pressing ahead with a £21m campus hub to transform the student experience at its disparate estate on the outskirts of town. Campus Central will incorporate...
30 Apr 2018 - No comments
Borders Sculpture Park has returned for a second season with the unveil of The Messenger by Hilary Jack at Robert Adam’s Mellerstain House near Kelso. Drawing from a rich well of history...
30 Apr 2018 - No comments
CCG Construction have moved on-site with the delivery of 35 apartments in Glasgow’s Kinning Park area on behalf of Southside Housing Association. The Admiral Street build has been conceived...
30 Apr 2018 - No comments
New life is to be breathed into a disused Hawick Mill with an application for selective demolition and re-use to create new homes. Proposed works will entail the demolition of existing single...
27 Apr 2018 - No comments
A prominent Highland Council office block in Inverness is to be converted into a 79-bed hotel by Colin Armstrong Architects and Kingsmills Hotel to meet growing accommodation demand in the city....
27 Apr 2018 - No comments
Inverclyde Council has granted permission for a £6m refurbishment and extension to St Mary’s Primary School in Greenock, rebuilding it internally complete with new windows and a re-slated roof....
26 Apr 2018 - No comments
Chris Stewart Group have welcomed tenants to a 38,000sq/ft of office space at Blenheim Place, Edinburgh, after repurposing a tired 1980s commercial building – retaining features such as stone,...
26 Apr 2018 - No comments
Ambassador LB has committed to invest £7m across three commercial office buildings in Glasgow, delivering 60,000sq/ft of Grade A office space in the process. The partnership between...
26 Apr 2018 - No comments
East Renfrewshire Council has appointed a contractor to build a £12.2m primary and nursery school in Newton Mearn’s, within Glasgow’s south side. The BDP designed Maidenhill Primary will...
25 Apr 2018 - No comments
An artificial surf park planned for a disused quarry near Ratho, Edinburgh, has been waved through by planners, enabling Tartan Leisure to proceed with delivery of the unique venue. Sitting at...
25 Apr 2018 - No comments
A host of prominent buildings and locations around Aberdeen have been given a street art makeover following this year’s NuArt festival, an urban arts programme first established in Norway back in...
25 Apr 2018 - No comments
LDN Architects have gone back to the drawing board in their efforts to convince planners to back their bid for a new block of flats in Edinburgh’s Morningside, ditching their previous brick...
24 Apr 2018 - No comments
Plans to transform Aberdeenshire’s Fasque Estate with 74 new homes, a visitor centre, café, equestrian centre and shop have been given the nod by planners, clearing the way for development...
24 Apr 2018 - No comments
Online travel agency Trip.com has unveiled its unconventional Edinburgh HQ, a 13,000sq/ft office space which seeks to upend perceptions of what a call centre should be. The interior space...
23 Apr 2018 - No comments
Residents of Dunfermline are being invited to attend a design charette between 25 and 29 April to help shape a place-making strategy for the town. Design Dunfermline seeks to build on the...
23 Apr 2018 - No comments
Robertson Construction have completed work on Edinburgh’s Social Bite Village, a cluster of 10 two-bedroom homes designed to alleviate homelessness in the city. The contractor undertook...
20 Apr 2018 - No comments
Hub North Scotland have begun preparatory work at the site of a £55m schools campus in Aberdeenshire designed by Halliday Fraser Munro. Inverurie Community Campus has been commissioned by...
20 Apr 2018 - No comments
Campbeltown Picture House has been officially reopened following a full restoration undertaken by Burrell Foley Fischer to bring back its full Edwardian splendor. Built in 1913 as one of the...
20 Apr 2018 - No comments
Scottish Canals have unveiled a £1.5m community and heritage hub at Pier Square in Ardrishaig, Argyll, to double as a gateway to the Crinan Canal by 2019. A team led by Oliver Chapman...
19 Apr 2018 - No comments
Standard Real Estate and George Buchanan Architects have brought forward planning in principle for 12 new build flats at Redwood Road, Cumbernauld . Illustrative plans filed with North...
19 Apr 2018 - No comments
A bid by Westpoint Homes and Coltart Earley, together with LDA Design, to build 63 flats on the site of the former Middlefield School has hit resistance from planners who have raised a multitude of...
19 Apr 2018 - No comments
M&G Real Estate have unwrapped their plans for a £100m office development on Glasgow’s Cadogan Street, now branded as The Grid . Offering 277,500sq/ft of accommodation over 12 levels the...
19 Apr 2018 - No comments
Delivery of 800 homes in north Glasgow is progressing apace after the city council signed an agreement with Keepmoat Homes to deliver the Sighthill Transformational Regeneration Area ....
18 Apr 2018 - No comments
Isabel Garriga has positioned herself as a champion of female architects after being elected as president of the Glasgow Institute of Architects following an annual gathering of members assembled...
18 Apr 2018 - No comments
Edinburgh City Council has finalised its contentious configuration of roads and paving at Picardy Place following detailed consultations with end users. Construction work on the scheme can...
17 Apr 2018 - No comments
A derelict Aberdeenshire mansion is to be brought back to its former glory developer FM Group now on-site to transform the mansion into a hotel. WCP Architects have been brought on board to...
17 Apr 2018 - No comments
An application for planning permission has been filed by ASA and Neil Rothnie Architects to erect a four-home tenement block on Bedford Road, Aberdeen . To be built to the rear of an existing...
16 Apr 2018 - No comments
Springfield Properties have moved onsite to deliver a 3,000 home ‘village’ at Bertha Park in Perth , located off the Inveralmond Roundabout. A 30-year masterplan calls for a mix of...
16 Apr 2018 - No comments
Drinks giant Diageo is to invest £150m transforming the visitor experience at 12 distilleries as it eyes an increased share of the booming food and drink tourism market. Heading up this plan...
13 Apr 2018 - No comments
The arrival of spring sees Urban Realm venture to Perth and Arran, two locations which are gearing up for a summer tourism bonanza in their own unique way. We join the audience at Perth...
13 Apr 2018 - No comments
Morrison Construction have completed delivery of a new out-patients department for NHS Lothian in Haddington, the first phase of a £70m masterplan for a new East Lothian Community Hospital on...
12 Apr 2018 - No comments
Aberdeen’s PRS sector is set for further growth with a commitment by developer Inhabit to erect 36 rental homes together with mixed retail and commercial units as part of a wider masterplan for...
12 Apr 2018 - No comments
Aitken Turnbull Architects are taking the design lead expansion of a B-listed church on the corner of West Richmond Street and Davie Street in Edinburgh through demolition of a later extension...
11 Apr 2018 - No comments
An application for the creation of 11 flats on vacant ground off Edinburgh’s West Granton Road has been filed by Ed Consilium, supplanting an earlier application for a taller building that was...
11 Apr 2018 - No comments
South Lanarkshire Council have begun delivery of Underbank Primary School on Lanark Road, Carluke, after the Scottish Government released funding for its latest wave of school’s construction ....
10 Apr 2018 - No comments
East Ayrshire Council has taken possession of a £45m William McllVanney Campus in Kilmarnock, named in honour of the late novelist and poet, following its handover by Kier Construction....
10 Apr 2018 - No comments
A former Dundee councillor is leading calls for the city council to reverse a decision to demolish a run of west end tenements on Blackness Road and replace them with ‘energy efficient...
9 Apr 2018 - No comments
Lews Castle College, part of the University of the Highlands and Islands and Ceòlas have joined forces to drive forward a new centre for music, dance and Gaelic culture at Daliburgh, South Uist....
9 Apr 2018 - No comments
The Scottish Fire & Rescue Service have broken ground on a £12m training centre at Newbridge on the outskirts of Edinburgh. Robertson Construction are now on-site with an expectation that...
9 Apr 2018 - No comments
A final call has been issued for entries to the 2018 Scottish Design Awards as a 20 April deadline looms for architects and designers wishing to participate in the 2018 programme. Submissions...
9 Apr 2018 - No comments
A C-listed disused church in Airdrie town centre is to be converted into 28 new homes following a decision to amalgamate its congregation with a neighbouring parish. This move leaves a...
6 Apr 2018 - No comments
Fife Council have awarded planning consent to re-establish an historic golf course at Dumbarnie Links, Drumeldrie , documented as having first operated from 1837 to around 1870. The 18-hole...
6 Apr 2018 - No comments
Private rental specialists Moda have submitted plans for a 221-home development at Springside in Edinburgh’s Fountainbridge district as part of a larger development that will comprise 500 homes...
5 Apr 2018 - No comments
New life is to be breathed into an historic C-listed property at 101 Union Street, Aberdeen , through conversion to residential while retaining the ground and lower floor for retail and café use....
5 Apr 2018 - No comments
MCR Property Group have launched a £30m redevelopment of Edinburgh’s Chesser House on Gorgie Road , converting the disused office block into housing together with ground floor retail and an...
5 Apr 2018 - No comments
CameronWebster and Loader & Monteith architects have drawn up ambitious plans to bring Glasgow’s B-listed Carnbooth House Hotel into the 21st century with a contemporary new extension to...
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The Scottish Prison Service is to progress plans for a new National Women’s Prison at Cornton Vale, Stirling , to improve the rehabilitation prospects of prisoners. This will see the...
4 Apr 2018 - No comments
Cameron Laird Architects have teamed up with Portobello Sands to propose delivery of 13 new homes at Portobello Beach , completing a partially finished scheme which first gained consent back in...
4 Apr 2018 - No comments
Brown + Brown Architects are to make their mark on the Aberdeenshire countryside with proposals for a glamourous new home on the footprint of a demolished hillside cottage. Prepared on behalf...
3 Apr 2018 - No comments
Rental accommodation specialists Inhabit have fleshed out their proposals to breathe new life into outline proposals for Aberdeen’s Broadford Works with the submission of plans for 460 homes...
3 Apr 2018 - No comments
Scotland is to be represented at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale with The Happenstance, described as an exploration of how young people respond to this year’s theme of Freespace - the...
3 Apr 2018 - No comments
The University of Edinburgh has pledged to invest £7m in its Old Kirk Postgraduate Centre on Holyrood Road, transforming the Old Town venue into a hub for meeting, collaboration and study. A...

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