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27 Feb 2015 - No comments
FM Group has rekindled its stalled plans to develop the Ury Estate, Aberdeenshire, by preparing to lodge an £80m golf course, hotel and homes masterplan. Backed by celebrity golfer Jack...
27 Feb 2015 - No comments
Aberdeen City Council has approved plans for a £1bn satellite town which will ultimately provide up to 7,000 new homes on the outskirts of the city. Grandhome, Bridge of Don, is a 40 year...
27 Feb 2015 - No comments
Glasgow City Council is to host a workshop to discuss the future of Sauchiehall Street , a down at heel address which has come under pressure from contraction of the city’s retail core. On...
27 Feb 2015 - No comments
Mace and Mercer Real Estate, joint venture partners behind Glasgow’s Candleriggs Quarter , have together lodged a planning application for a 1.49ha brownfield site in the heart of the Merchant...
27 Feb 2015 - No comments
Land Securities have released fresh detail on their vision for Glasgow’s Buchanan Quarter by illustrating the effect that an expanded footprint is likely to have on North Hannover Street and...
27 Feb 2015 - No comments
Ambitious plans to remodel a Georgian hotel on Glasgow’s George Square are reported to be close to winning the approval of city officials, according to The Herald. Citing council sources the...
26 Feb 2015 - No comments
CDA Architects have completed the refurbishment and extension of a dated Aberdeen office block to form 48,500sq/ft of modern accommodation. The Huntly Street property has been overhauled...
26 Feb 2015 - No comments
Strathclyde University has begun fitting out lab and office space at its £89m Technology and Innovation centre, serving as a hub for collaboration between academics, business, industry and public...
26 Feb 2015 - No comments
South Lanarkshire Council has given the go-ahead to a £12m education campus incorporating both Halfmerke and West Mains Primary within a new build school and community nursery. Brought...
25 Feb 2015 - No comments
Work on Dundee’s waterfront V&A design museum is to get underway next month after BAM Construction were awarded the contract to build the £80.1m centre by Dundee City Council. The final...
25 Feb 2015 - No comments
Hamiltons Architects have fleshed out their proposals to remodel and extend the Millenium Hotel on George Square , Glasgow, to take advantage of planned development work to the north as part of...
25 Feb 2015 - No comments
Graham Construction is entering the closing phase of an ambitious renovation and extension of Lews Castle, Stornoway , ahead of an internal fit-out of the new museum and archive. Led by...
24 Feb 2015 - No comments
A £390m proposal to extend Glasgow’s Buchanan Galleries shopping mall has been approved by Glasgow City Council, clearing the way for work to proceed on than ambitious rebuild of the existing...
24 Feb 2015 - No comments
The Glasgow School of Art has named Gardiner & Theobald as project manager for the reconstruction of the Mackintosh building, damaged by fire in May of last year. Acting as an interface...
23 Feb 2015 - No comments
Organisers of the 2015 Saltire Housing Design Awards are seeking examples of housing excellence to go head to head in a battle to find the best new build projects the country has to offer....
23 Feb 2015 - No comments
Glasgow City Council has revealed the latest stage of its schools modernisation programme in the form or a planning application for Gowanbank Campus, Pollok . Incorporating Gowanbank and...
23 Feb 2015 - No comments
Fortis Developments have begun work on their latest city centre student housing conversion after moving on site at an 8 storey office building on Glasgow’s Bath Street to carve out 101...
20 Feb 2015 - No comments
The project team behind plans to transform Edinburgh’s Royal High School into a five star hotel claim the public are on their side in a battle to secure planning permission for the sensitive...
20 Feb 2015 - No comments
RBS is set to dip its toe back into property speculation after securing permission in principle to build a 100 room hotel, 70 homes and associated cafes and shops at Eyre Terrace, Edinburgh ....
20 Feb 2015 - No comments
A block of 12 flats planned for the site of a demolished Dundee cinema have been approved by the city council , enabling Ramsay’s Properties to proceed with the Hiddleston & Feist designed...
20 Feb 2015 - No comments
Residents have begun moving into Glasgow’s Athletes’ Village following a retrofit of the 35.8 hectare site from temporary accommodation for 7,000 competitors and officials to 700 permanent...
19 Feb 2015 - No comments
Halliday Fraser Munro Consultants with Keith Edwards Architect have tendered plans on behalf of the Jalsico Group to erect a student housing development at Rosemount Place, Aberdeen ....
19 Feb 2015 - No comments
Autism Ventures have submitted plans for a new club house, mountain bike trails and Frisbee golf course at Braid Hills, Edinburgh, as the flying disc sporting mash-up arrives in the city for the...
19 Feb 2015 - No comments
Construction work has got underway on the £745m Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route , the largest road scheme presently being delivered anywhere in the UK. This will entail construction of...
18 Feb 2015 - No comments
A landmark Tudor Revival style hotel in Lundin Links, Leven, is to be turned into 45 retirement homes under plans drawn up by Kapital Residential and Oliver + Robb Architects. The C-listed...
18 Feb 2015 - No comments
Michael Laird Architects have followed through their plans for an apart-hotel along the Union Canal at Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, with submission of plans for a postgraduate student housing block...
17 Feb 2015 - No comments
Edinburgh World Heritage has teamed up with the city council and shop owners to undertake a streetscape initiative on West Maitland Street, with work to refurbish up to 16 shop fronts beginning...
17 Feb 2015 - No comments
Aberdeen City Council has granted approval to plans drawn up by Fletcher Joseph Architects on behalf of Central London Serviced Apartments for a nine storey apart-hotel on Union Street....
17 Feb 2015 - No comments
The University of Edinburgh has initiated a hunt for a contractor to deliver a £20m refresh of its A-listed Law School Old College building , entailing rationalisation of an internal layout that...
16 Feb 2015 - No comments
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has unveiled their new Edinburgh office on Princes Street after vacating their previous base at Manor Place. The professional body instructed JLL...
16 Feb 2015 - No comments
Regeneration agency Clyde Gateway has opened the doors to their latest office build, One Rutherglen Links , as they seek to drum up occupier interest in the 33,500sq/ft property. Located on...
13 Feb 2015 - No comments
Ian Darby partnership has submitted plans behalf of Sanctuary to build 48 homes on the site of a former railway embankment at Curle Street, Whiteinch. Composed of two blocks recessed from...
13 Feb 2015 - No comments
A war of pictures has broken out between developers behind the planned redevelopment of Aberdeen’s Marischal Square and local campaigners fighting against the scheme with Muse illustrating the...
13 Feb 2015 - No comments
The first residents have begun moving into a £2bn Aberdeenshire new town with the completion of the first of an eventual 4,025 homes given outline permission for the site. Located five miles...
13 Feb 2015 - No comments
Construction work on Edinburgh’s Royal Hospital for Sick Children is to get underway within a matter of weeks after the scheme’s £150m budget was signed off by the Scottish Government....
12 Feb 2015 - No comments
Amidst ongoing demolition of Britain’s high-rise heritage the Edinburgh College of Art has begun a project to catalogue every tower block built in Britain in the post war era to populate a freely...
12 Feb 2015 - No comments
Edinburgh City Council has released updated plans for its £43m overhaul of Meadowbank Stadium, transforming the dated venue into a multi-use sports centre. Drawn up by Reiach & Hall...
11 Feb 2015 - No comments
A protest group campaigning against a Halliday Fraser Munro designed mixed use scheme at Marischal Square in the heart of Aberdeen city centre have released mock ups indicating what the space...
11 Feb 2015 - No comments
Aberdeen Beach is to gain a new restaurant after plans were submitted by Rossnow Leisure to establish a 20,000sq/ft venue on the site of a former fish and chip shop which burnt to the ground a year...
11 Feb 2015 - No comments
HUB North Scotland has secured planning approval from Moray Council for a JM Architects designed school on the site of the existing Elgin high. In order to minimise internal environments the...
11 Feb 2015 - No comments
Work to deliver a 241 bed student residential development in St Andrews is underway at the site of the former Memorial Hospital onAbbey Walk. Ayton House has been designed by Oberlanders on...
10 Feb 2015 - No comments
Surging demand for craft beers has prompted Aberdeenshire brewer BrewDog to dust off plans for a £5m overhaul of its Balmacassie base. The irreverent beer brand is seeking to boost efficiency...
10 Feb 2015 - No comments
Watkin Jones Group are progressing their latest student residential build with the delivery of 450 bed spaces at Abbeyhill , Edinburgh, the latest in a series of nationwide collaborations with...
9 Feb 2015 - No comments
Gareth Hoskins Architects and Duddingston House Properties have laid out theirvision for the A-listed Royal High School , a crumbling landmark which has lain derelict in the heart of Edinburgh for...
9 Feb 2015 - No comments
Taylor Architecture Practice has undertaken a £3.5m refurbishment and extension of a food processing factory in Kirkcudbright, Dumfries & Galloway, on behalf of Castle MacLellan Foods....
9 Feb 2015 - No comments
Sutherland Hussey Architects and David Narro Associates have applied the finishing touches to a £3m creative laboratories building for the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Newhaven. Adjoining...
6 Feb 2015 - No comments
The University of Strathclyde has taken possession of the newly extended John Anderson building , incorporating its department of Physics, following a £4.2m refurbishment and extension....
6 Feb 2015 - No comments
ICA Architects has submitted plans to build a modular 155 bed Hampton by Hilton branded hotel at Dyce Drive, Aberdeen. Located to the south of the city’s airport in an area designated for...
5 Feb 2015 - No comments
Work to deliver an £8m care home in Newton Mearns has kicked off with nursing and care provider Meallmore moving on site as part of a larger Mactaggart & Mickel residential scheme. Designed...
5 Feb 2015 - No comments
Developers behind plans to convert Edinburgh’s Royal High School into hotel accommodation are to throw open the doors to the landmark building, disused since 1969, for a public consultation...
4 Feb 2015 - No comments
Above ground works to deliver a giant mixed-use project adjacent to Edinburgh’s redeveloped Haymarket Station have now begun as contractor’s progress preparatory works for the £200m...
4 Feb 2015 - No comments
Barr Construction has been appointed to deliver a £20m leisure centre in Irvine, replacing the 1970s built Magnum Centre with a combined sport, cultural and exhibition centre. First...
4 Feb 2015 - No comments
BAM, in collaboration with Taylor Properties, is turning its attention to the next big project in its development pipeline, a £100m mixed-use development in Glasgow’s IFSD, having recently sold...
3 Feb 2015 - No comments
Aberdeen has beaten off stiff competition from the likes of Cumbernauld, East Kilbride and Leven to win the award nobody wants, the Plook-on-the-Plinth trophy for Scotland’s most dismal place,...
2 Feb 2015 - No comments
The latest addition to Glasgow’s streetscape has injected some fresh vitality to the northern end of Hope Street with the completion of a structurally expressive extension to the Theatre Royal....

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