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Hoskins fleshes out Trump masterplan

March 3 2010

Hoskins fleshes out Trump masterplan
As a detailed masterplan is submitted by Gareth Hoskins Architects for the Trump International Golf Links the practice have published the first indicative images of how architecture on site may look.

They show a crescent of traditionally styled white washed homes fronting parkland at the heart of a planned residential estate of 500 homes and hint at the massing of a dominant hotel tower.

Detailed environmental, landscaping, infrastructure and construction information is contained in the plans and will be assessed by Aberdeenshire Council planners in conjunction with statutory bodies.

The move is required under law in advance of a full planning application being submitted, a landmark which is still at least three months away.

A public exhibition showcasing the plans will be held at the Udny Arms Hotel in Newburgh on March 12-13.
An iconic hotel will punctuate the predominant four storey datum
An iconic hotel will punctuate the predominant four storey datum
Trump hopes his north east course can host the Open Championship
Trump hopes his north east course can host the Open Championship

14 Comments

Cass
#1 Posted by Cass on 3 Mar 2010 at 14:41 PM
I'm sure those who are going to be evicted from their homes and land for this will be thrilled to see the pictures. Looks like a Scottish version of Poundbury. Will the tower have a clock? As it's not even designed yet, why is it is the hotel is described as 'iconic'? Is that lazy journalistic shorthand for anything taller than three storeys?

Blue skies and fluffy clouds. Not what the Aberdeenshire coast has for a great deal of the year.

Bruce McKenzie
#2 Posted by Bruce McKenzie on 4 Mar 2010 at 06:29 AM
If you did not notice, there is a major world recession and the UK can no longer afford its social security bill. Who do you want to pay the planning objectorsd giros??Lower class sorts like "schemies" & "wegies".

Typical backwards looking scotland
Cass
#3 Posted by Cass on 4 Mar 2010 at 12:38 PM
What 'planning objectors giros?' Typical ill-informed comment.
Dave Anderson
#4 Posted by Dave Anderson on 5 Mar 2010 at 19:15 PM
Cass

You are sooooooooo boring!
Rip Van Winkle
#5 Posted by Rip Van Winkle on 6 Mar 2010 at 14:55 PM
Not as booooring as Dave Anderson. Yaaaaawn. Dave. Yaaaaawn...
Dave Anderson
#6 Posted by Dave Anderson on 6 Mar 2010 at 15:34 PM
Rip Van Winkle,
Boo hoo, you made me cry.
Rip Van Winkle
#7 Posted by Rip Van Winkle on 6 Mar 2010 at 18:37 PM
Good. Now maybe you can piss off somewhere else Dave, where your 'wit and insight' and utter lack of point might be appreciated.
Ritch Sox
#8 Posted by Ritch Sox on 6 Mar 2010 at 19:54 PM
Hardly the most revealing images from Hoskins. Look remarkably like the sort of renderings I've seen Duany use.
Dave Anderson
#9 Posted by Dave Anderson on 8 Mar 2010 at 17:57 PM
Rip Van Winkle
What is that you are saying . . all I hear is blah blah blah
Rip Van Winkle
#10 Posted by Rip Van Winkle on 9 Mar 2010 at 11:02 AM
That, Dave Anderson, is possibly because between your ears is wood. Until you have anything pertinent and informed to say, then try to resist clogging up the comments section with further juvenile nonsense.
misery guts
#11 Posted by misery guts on 19 Mar 2010 at 14:33 PM
'a crescent of traditionally styled white washed homes'
The local vernacular is 1 1/2 storey granite built farm houses.
Obviously written by someone who has visited the area as many times as trump himself.
Ritch Sox
#12 Posted by Ritch Sox on 22 Mar 2010 at 11:31 AM
The 20th century local vernacular of Balmedie and Newburgh is the dry-dash bungalow and executive villa with artificial stone dressings i.e. crap. Any argument against development can really only be on SSSI or CPO grounds as it seems likely that the quality of architecture Gareth Hoskins proposes will be superior to anything that bit of coast has seen in decades.
Holey Sox
#13 Posted by Holey Sox on 22 Mar 2010 at 13:50 PM
So it's slightly better than existing crap, so that's OK then? Looks like overdevelopment, informed by watching Brigadoon.
Bingo Bango
#14 Posted by Bingo Bango on 29 Mar 2010 at 10:35 AM
I am shocked by the poor, standard of lazy visualisation coming out of Hoskins these days.

They haven't even bothered to photoshop any tartan trousers on to the spectators in image 3.

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