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31 Oct 2016 - No comments
Elsick Development Company has revealed designs for a new range of 20 single storey cottages at Chapelton following feedback from customers and the housebuilder. Demand for accommodation on...
31 Oct 2016 - No comments
The University of the West of Scotland is pushing on with plans to build a 38-acre campus at Hamilton International Technology Park , with the formal sign-off of contracts for the build....
28 Oct 2016 - No comments
A preliminary artist’s impression of a 184m long swivelling road bridge connecting Clydebank with Renfrew Riverside has been published in a new scoping report prepared by engineering consultants...
28 Oct 2016 - No comments
Austin-Smith:Lord, acting on behalf of Irvine Bay Regeneration Company and North Ayrshire Council have revealed a public realm strategy designed to enhance the appeal of the North Ayrshire town....
28 Oct 2016 - No comments
CCG have commenced construction on twin housing developments to the north of Perth on behalf of Perth & Kinross Council, both of which are scheduled for completion by spring 2017. Cairns...
28 Oct 2016 - No comments
The former headquarters of Strathclyde Police has been earmarked for a giant £105m build to rent development following the force's relocation to Riverside East, Dalmarnock - in what is being...
27 Oct 2016 - No comments
Completion of the £42.8m James Gillespie’s High School , Edinburgh, has been marked at a ribbon cutting ceremony in which pupils and dignitaries helped unwrap the new school. Developed by...
27 Oct 2016 - No comments
Simpson & Brown have completed a new visitor centre for Rievaulx Abbey, North Yorkshire, on behalf of English Heritage to complement an upgraded museum building. This saw an existing timber...
26 Oct 2016 - No comments
Stewart Milne Group are poised to commence landscaping work at Countesswells, Aberdeen , as part of preparatory work for the delivery of 3,000 homes. This will see creation of 4.5 hectares of...
26 Oct 2016 - No comments
Repair work to the Forth Road Bridge has been recognised after the project was crowned overall winner of the 2016 Saltire Society Civil Engineering Awards, backed by the Institution of Civil...
26 Oct 2016 - No comments
Partick Housing Association have secured funding to progress an £8m development of 60 flats on the site of the former St Peter’s School, Glasgow. Construction will get underway early next...
25 Oct 2016 - No comments
John McAslan & Partners have published the first concept design proposals for the refurbishment of Glasgow’s Burrell Collection following closure of the existing museum to allow the £66m...
25 Oct 2016 - No comments
Glasgow Caledonian University has completed a £30m campus overhaul conceived by Page\Park which has seen it create a new entrance and landscaping together with refurbishment of George Moore and...
25 Oct 2016 - No comments
NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde have opened the £12.4m Maryhill Health & Care Centre , offering a range of primary care services including three GP practices, a physiotherapy gym and adult mental...
24 Oct 2016 - No comments
The B-listed West Boathouse at Glasgow Green has won a first-round pass for a £1.2m heritage grant courtesy of the Heritage Lottery Fund, enabling Glasgow Building Preservation Trust to pursue a...
21 Oct 2016 - No comments
Edinburgh City Council is considering plans to build a £26m civic centre and 160 affordable homes on the site of a dilapidated shopping centre in the Pennywell and Muirhouse area of Edinburgh...
21 Oct 2016 - No comments
Lippe Architects have tabled plans for a green roofed garden centre by the side of the main road linking Aberdeen with Stonehaven, replacing the former Hillside filling station. Modelled on...
20 Oct 2016 - No comments
Norr have put forward detailed plans for one of the first plots to be developed under a 7N masterplan for Shawfield on the south bank of the River Clyde. The Red Tree Innovation Centre...
20 Oct 2016 - No comments
Barton Willmore have rounded off a hat-trick of submissions for The City of Edinburgh Council’s 21st Century Homes Small Sites Programme with the pending submission of plans for a four storey...
19 Oct 2016 - No comments
An expansion of Aberdeen railway station has been proposed as part of works to deliver Halliday Fraser Munro's Atholl Square development , to maximise opportunities afforded by demolition of...
19 Oct 2016 - No comments
1,500 pupils have begun taking lessons at the £30m Greenfaulds High School , Cumbernauld, following handover of the new building to North Lanarkshire Council. Designed by Norr Architects and...
18 Oct 2016 - No comments
Mosaic Architecture acting on behalf of Carrigmay have drawn up plans to convert a former office block at 249 West George Street, Glasgow , to form a 100-bed hotel. To accommodate the Adina...
18 Oct 2016 - No comments
A trio of infrastructure and development projects in East Renfrewshire have taken a step forward with the commission of a hat trick of new artist’s impressions. Under the Glasgow City Region...
17 Oct 2016 - No comments
Elder & Cannon Architects have drafter plans for a 12 storey student tower constituting 308 bed spaces at New City Road, Glasgow, on behalf of Bankell Developments. Situated over the road...
17 Oct 2016 - No comments
Maggie’s Lanarkshire is in contention to win professional recognition for the quality of its landscape architecture after the Rankinfraser project was shortlisted for a Landscape Institute Award....
17 Oct 2016 - No comments
Squire and Crescent have launched the show home for 235 Corstorphine Road , a development of 31 new build and refurbished apartments designed by Morgan McDonnell Architects. This will see a...
14 Oct 2016 - No comments
A vacant office building on Glasgow’s Clyde Street has been earmarked for 77 student flats under proposals drawn up by 21st Architecture and Silk (Clyde Three) – following their earlier...
14 Oct 2016 - No comments
The holy grail of introducing a rail service to Glasgow Airport has taken a fresh twist with plans to introduce a personal rapid transit (PRT) system – one of two options currently being weighed...
14 Oct 2016 - No comments
A trio of buildings have been named as the best in the Outer Hebrides as part of a poll conducted by An Lanntair and the Western Isles Architects Group in which 500 people participated....
13 Oct 2016 - No comments
Glasgow Building Preservation Trust are proposing to transform the B-listed St Martin’s Church, Castlemilk , into a community and leisure facility as the centerpiece of a new mountain bike trail...
13 Oct 2016 - No comments
A residential expansion of Barrhead is on the cards following sale of 9.1 acre s of scrubland on the corner of Grahamston Road and Blackbyres Road within just a mile of the town centre....
12 Oct 2016 - No comments
The largest project in NHS Orkney’s history has secured approval from the Scottish government, clearing the way for a £60m integrated health facility to be built on the outskirts of Kirkwall ....
12 Oct 2016 - No comments
Hearts Football Club has secured consent from the City of Edinburgh Council to rebuild the main stand at Tynecastle Stadium . The £11m project will see the historic 1919 structure remodelled...
11 Oct 2016 - No comments
Aberdeen City Council has given the green light to the transformation of Broad Street into a ‘pedestrian priority’ route extending Union Street to the Gallowgate/Upper Kirkgate junction....
11 Oct 2016 - No comments
Barton Willmore has prepared plans for a 26 home development at Crewe Road Gardens, Pilton , as part of the City of Edinburgh Council’s small sites programme . Designed to knot into the...
11 Oct 2016 - No comments
Page\Park Architects are bidding to bring a forgotten survivor of the Gorbals’ tenement past back to life with a full rehabilitation of the A listed former British Linen Bank on behalf of...
10 Oct 2016 - No comments
Plans have been brought forward by Collective Architecture, Robertson Partnership Homes and Hillcrest Housing Association on behalf of Dundee City Council to regenerate Derby Street in the...
10 Oct 2016 - No comments
The City of Edinburgh’s small sites urban infill programme is continuing to bring disused land back into productive use with the submission of plans for 44 homes at Parkgrove Terrace, Clermiston...
7 Oct 2016 - No comments
McKenzie Strickland Associates have been recognised by the Dundee Institute of Architects for their Hot Box sauna at Taymouth Marina, after picking up their best commercial project award. Open...
7 Oct 2016 - No comments
Apsis Homes and Convery Prenty Architects have won consent to build 45 flats on the site of a vehicle workshop at Meadow Road in Glasgow’s west end . The scheme will be composed of a...
7 Oct 2016 - No comments
Highbridge Properties and Clyde Gateway have launched what could become one of the UK’s largest office parks on the former Shawfield development site in Glasgow. Magenta will offer 1.3m...
7 Oct 2016 - No comments
Stallan-Brand Architects have lodged plans to build a 17-storey ‘Style Mile’ hotel tower on the junction of Dixon Street and Clyde Street, framing views of the UK’s second busiest shopping...
6 Oct 2016 - No comments
The Chris Stewart Group is to formally submit a planning application for a £70m lane development off George Square later this week after securing the backing of Glasgow Chamber of Commerce....
6 Oct 2016 - No comments
UBS Asset Management is nearing completion of a major refurbishment of Michael Laird Architect’s One Lochrin Square to provide 62,416sq/ft of Grade A office space. This work has entailed...
6 Oct 2016 - No comments
The latest issue of Urban Realm is now out in which we look at the power of architecture to transform the way people think of themselves and the world around them, with a look at two contrasting...
5 Oct 2016 - No comments
Mosaic Architecture & Design have filed revised plans to build a 286 bed student housing development at Dunblane Street, Glasgow , extending a gold rush to provide purpose built accommodation in...
5 Oct 2016 - No comments
Stallan Brand have prepared an outline development statement for a mixed use transformation of Tradeston comprising a mixture of offices, homes, a hotel, serviced apartments, retail and leisure....
5 Oct 2016 - No comments
Restoration work has now completed at a B-listed warehouse in Tradeston, used as apartments since 1999, following a programme of essential repairs carried out on behalf of the owners, Speirs Gumley...
5 Oct 2016 - No comments
CALA Homes and Michael Laird Architects have teamed up for a residential conversion of the B listed Boroughmuir High School , Edinburgh, together with construction of a new build apartment block...
4 Oct 2016 - No comments
Aberdeen is being lined up for a 374-bed student housing development by developer Downing with submission of a planning application for a site on John Street, Aberdeen. Drawn up by Fletcher...
4 Oct 2016 - No comments
A Highland beauty spot has been chosen as the location for a corten steel viewing platform and seating drum to enhance appreciation of the surrounding landscape. Conceived by Ian White...
4 Oct 2016 - No comments
Urban Realm is undertaking its largest single survey of Scotland’s architecture community by reaching out to everyone with a stake in quality design to contribute to the 2016 edition of the UR100...
3 Oct 2016 - No comments
An Aberdeen office park has welcomed its latest addition in the form of a 215,000sq/ft grade A pavilion designed by Michael Laird Architects on behalf of HFD Property Group. CityPark1 occupies...
3 Oct 2016 - No comments
Kilmarnock is set to benefit from creation of a £14m urban park after East Ayrshire Council gave its financial and political backing to the regeneration of 23 acres of brownfield land in the town....
3 Oct 2016 - No comments
CRGP Architects have prepared designs for an indoor football centre at Glasgow Business Park incorporating 10 five-a-side pitches and a larger football arena. Conceived by Kardon Investments...

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