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14 Feb 2025 - 6 comments
A Brutalist shopping centre on Glasgow's Bath Street has been reimagined as a £6m hospital serving the beating heart of the city. Dating from 1986 the Sauchiehall Centre has been hit hard by...
13 Feb 2025 - 4 comments
North Lanarkshire Council has agreed to demolish three Motherwell tower blocks in the latest phase of its housing renewal plan. The local authority will level the Allan, Coursington, and...
13 Feb 2025 - 4 comments
A famed London street known for its luxury retail offer has been transformed into a kilometre-long 'green boulevard' by John McAslan + Partners after the practice won an international design...
13 Feb 2025 - 0 comments
Barnardo's is pressing ahead with its Gap Homes programme across the UK after receiving an £18m gift from the Katherine Martin Charitable Trust. The donation, in memory of a key figure behind...
12 Feb 2025 - 3 comments
Stirred by a spate of fires from the Highlands to Hollywood architect Alan Dunlop has inked a series of watercolour images documenting conflagrations from around the world. A follow-up to...
12 Feb 2025 - 11 comments
Work has commenced to breathe new life into a historic Edinburgh department store, by turning the upper floors into a hotel. Danish billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen with David Chipperfield...
11 Feb 2025 - 1 comment
A Mayfield school is opening up to the broader community under redevelopment plans by Midlothian Council Mayfield Community Learning Campus will draw together two primary schools, an early...
10 Feb 2025 - 1 comment
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society has commissioned Studio LBA to transform its Old Town headquarters at 6 Infirmary Street into a multi-purpose performance and community space. Fringe...
10 Feb 2025 - 1 comment
Glasgow's Love Loan development is shifting gears with delivery underway on a new events space to augment the recently completed AC Hotel . Chris Stewart Group are restoring the A-listed...
7 Feb 2025 - 9 comments
The University of Glasgow will stage a second public consultation outlining its plans to build student accommodation at Lilybank Gardens . LUC and Stallan-Brand are working with the...
6 Feb 2025 - 2 comments
A family have presented plans for a farmhouse and detached shed on rough grazing land at Knockhill Farm, three miles south of Banchory, Aberdeenshire. Situated 500m from the existing...
6 Feb 2025 - 9 comments
Glasgow City Council is to pursue the use of a Compulsory Purchase Order to acquire Alexander ‘Greek’ Thomson’s Egyptian Halls on Union Street, after a committee gave its consent. The...
5 Feb 2025 - 4 comments
Loch Lomond Group and Luss Estates have obtained coveted national park planning consent to build a distillery, restaurant and visitor centre in Luss. Situated in the heart of the popular...
4 Feb 2025 - 4 comments
The site of a lost Borders mansion, replaced by a modern equivalent in 2011, is set to make a splash with the submission of plans for an indoor 18m pool and leisure facility. Zone Architects...
4 Feb 2025 - 13 comments
Anderson Bell Christie (ABC) has extended moves to reposition the practice as a campaigning voice on policy, beyond the supply of 'standard' architectural design services, with a call to action on...
4 Feb 2025 - 0 comments
The City of Edinburgh Council is continuing efforts to alleviate its housing emergency by developing 49 homes for social and mid-market rent at Burdiehouse Crescent . To be built by contractor...
3 Feb 2025 - 4 comments
The Scottish Design Awards are picking up the pace in 2025 with a revamped selection of awards and all-new content.  Smashing the stars of architecture and design together in a...
3 Feb 2025 - 8 comments
A group of engineering students studying at Heriot-Watt University have launched a petition calling for the reopening of Edinburgh's South Suburban Line to passenger traffic. Last serving...
31 Jan 2025 - 7 comments
Indicative plans for a major mixed development at Elliot Street, Glasgow, have been shared by Stallan-Brand as part of the ongoing transition of the Anderston quayside from light industrial to...
30 Jan 2025 - 2 comments
Aberdeenshire Council has begun transferring services to a frontline civic hub, providing Ellon with a new library and family resource centre. Formartine House on Union Street occupies the...
30 Jan 2025 - 0 comments
The full extent of a planned holiday village near Hawick in the Scottish Borders has been revealed, together with the announcement that a prominent local landscape architect will front the...
30 Jan 2025 - 12 comments
The project team behind plans to create a double-barrelled riverfront park in Glasgow have shared their latest thinking on the development of both banks of the River Clyde at Custom House Quay and...
29 Jan 2025 - 0 comments
Forth Ports is pushing ahead with the latest element of its masterplan to turn the Port of Leith into an offshore renewables hub, with the submission of plans for a new waterside home for...
29 Jan 2025 - 6 comments
Glasgow's Lighthouse, 'temporarily' closed to the public at the onset of the Covid pandemic and never reopened, is set to be reimagined as a home for hi-tech startups. The former design and...
28 Jan 2025 - 11 comments
Avant Homes and Eldridge Developments are consulting on plans to deliver 249 homes in Easterhouse ahead of a planning application in March. 16.2ha of former agricultural land at Lochend Road...
28 Jan 2025 - 11 comments
Glasgow City Council is taking the gloves off in an attempt to break a heritage stand-off which has overshadowed Union Street for three decades. The Egyptian Halls , long entombed behind...
28 Jan 2025 - 1 comment
Glencairn Properties will press ahead with the second phase of student housing at its Lower Gilmore Place development in Fountainbridge, after selling the full development to Legal & General for...
28 Jan 2025 - 4 comments
A flood-hit late Victorian Edinburgh pub, closed since 2020, has been sold to deliver a 21 apartments . The Longstone Inn has been closed since part of its structure fell into the Water of...
27 Jan 2025 - 0 comments
A sports facility within the grounds of Pollok Country Park is to be expanded and upgraded with new pitches, paths and floodlighting. Sports Labs and City Charitable Trust propose renovating...
27 Jan 2025 - 2 comments
A landmark office complex in Edinburgh is to be reinvigorated under a £200m redesign to turbocharge the city's fintech sector. Drum Property is working with Lloyds Banking Group and Michael...

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