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30 Apr 2019 - No comments
Aberdeen Science Centre has asked Bancon Construction to begin work immediately on the transformation of old granite tram sheds at Constitution Street to create its £3m new home following a...
30 Apr 2019 - No comments
A masterplan prepared by Collective Architecture and LUC for Glasgow’s Hamiltonhill district has born its first fruits with the submission of plans to build 201 homes for Queens Cross...
29 Apr 2019 - No comments
A connectivity commission established by Glasgow City Council has followed up its call for a significant programme of streetscape improvements with a second set of recommendations to improve...
29 Apr 2019 - No comments
A prominent office proposal for Glasgow’s Argyle Street has been radically reworked with a dramatic cross-braced steel and glass design supplanted with a simple masonry grid after planning...
29 Apr 2019 - No comments
The University of Edinburgh has progressed plans for a £20m hub building at its Kings Buildings campus to designs by Sheppard Robson and landscape designers Harrison Stevens. Nucleus forms...
29 Apr 2019 - No comments
Robertson Construction has marked the first tangible signs of delivery at a new pavilion for the Royal Highland Centre at Ingliston with the installation of the steel structure. Designed by...
26 Apr 2019 - No comments
Aberdeen City Council has selected infrastructure specialists Balfour Beatty to bring forward a fabled £25.7m overhaul of Union Terrace Gardens . After numerous false starts work could...
26 Apr 2019 - No comments
The University of Glasgow has showcased its vision for a nanotechnology and precision medicine campus in Govan with the hope that work can begin within two years subject to funding. Designs...
25 Apr 2019 - No comments
Arts charity Edinburgh Printmakers have welcomed artists to their £11m creative hub at Castle Mills in Fountainbridge, for the first time, ahead of a formal public opening this weekend....
25 Apr 2019 - No comments
The Highland Council have taken possession of 30 flats at the former Midmills College Campus site, each of which will be rented out to tenants aged 55 and over. Specially adapted for older...
24 Apr 2019 - No comments
Glasgow City Council is backing £9m of public realm improvements to Byres Road following the conclusion of a public consultation exercise . Plans call for the introduction of segregated cycle...
24 Apr 2019 - No comments
Do-Architecture has won consent for new residential development in Glasgow’s west end at the second time of asking after ditching a contentious mansard roof . Revised designs for the North...
24 Apr 2019 - No comments
The City of Edinburgh Council has today granted planning approval to the Dunard Centre , the first purpose-built music and performance venue to be built in the capital for a century. The...
24 Apr 2019 - No comments
The University of St Andrews has taken possession of 184 student residences adjacent to the B-listed main University Hall in a joint venture with Campus Living Villages. Whitehorn Hall has...
23 Apr 2019 - No comments
Loch Lomond & the Trossachs National Park is in receipt of a £30m tourism masterplan designed to bring a variety of new attractions and facilities to Lomond Shores, Balloch. Lomond Banks...
23 Apr 2019 - No comments
Architecture Fringe is to launch its 2019 programme on 3 May after an open call for contributors drew over 80 submissions. In Real Life (IRL) will see Fringe producers set up residence in...
23 Apr 2019 - No comments
Hillcrest Housing Association have taken possession of 67 affordable homes at Countesswells , Aberdeen, in the latest phase of development at the north east New Town. Delivered by Stewart...
19 Apr 2019 - No comments
HLM have been asked to lead the design team for a £65m advanced manufacturing facility hosted by the University of Strathclyde as the flagship build of a new innovation district near Glasgow...
18 Apr 2019 - No comments
Kelvin Properties are on track to deliver 36 build to rent apartments at Candleriggs Court in Glasgow’s Merchant City with refurbishment expected to complete toward the end of May. The £10m...
18 Apr 2019 - No comments
ICA is leading efforts to create a 269-bed student residential build on vacant ground at 543 Gorgie Road, Edinburgh, at the junction of Chesser Avenue and bordered by the Water of Leith. The...
17 Apr 2019 - No comments
The French government has invited architects to draft designs for a ‘new spire’ to stand tall above Notre-Dame cathedral following a devastating fire which destroyed a nineteenth-century...
17 Apr 2019 - No comments
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17 Apr 2019 - No comments
GB Grove have filed an application in principle to create a green roadside service station at Kinbuck serving northbound traffic on the A9 outside Dunblane. Occupying land previously utilised...
16 Apr 2019 - No comments
A generous garden off Aberdeen’s Holburn Street has been earmarked for a three-storey contemporary home under plans to subdivide an existing feu. Currently under the ownership of 325...
16 Apr 2019 - No comments
Clark Contracts have handed over a new build student accommodation block at 22-24 Potterrow, Edinburgh, on behalf of Curlew Property. Situated a short walk from the University of Edinburgh the...
15 Apr 2019 - No comments
Drum Property Group are maintaining momentum at Buchanan Wharf with a detailed application for a build to rent tower on the eastern edge of Tradeston in Glasgow city centre. The £85m...
15 Apr 2019 - No comments
A major development of 450 new homes at the historic Sunnyside Hospital in Montrose has been given the planning all-clear, securing the future of the listed landmark. Plans include...
15 Apr 2019 - No comments
Glasgow-based architecture studio Pidgin Perfect has been acquired by New Practice with co-founders Marc Cairns and Becca Thomas remaining as directors within the enlarged business. Founded in...
12 Apr 2019 - No comments
Strathnaver Museum, a volunteer-run collection of local history bin Sutherland, is to expand its operations through creation of a new heritage hub catering for North Coast 500 tourists....
12 Apr 2019 - No comments
Hunter Laing & Company have realised their 15-year vision to build a new distillery on Islay with an official unveil of Ardnahoe Distillery. The £12m investment is expected to attract as many...
12 Apr 2019 - No comments
This issue of Urban Realm is all about expanding horizons as we journey around the globe in search of exemplary projects from which we can draw parallels with work closer to home. The journey...
11 Apr 2019 - No comments
John O’Groats Mill Trust have won a £348k grant from the Scottish Land Fund to acquire a B-listed disused mill together with 9.5 acres of land to be developed as a visitor attraction and...
11 Apr 2019 - No comments
Aberdeenshire Council is to press ahead with a £1.5m extension to their Buchan House headquarters in Peterhead, with a new wing of accommodation to be leased to Police Scotland. Robertson...
11 Apr 2019 - No comments
Penicuik’s historic heart is in line for some much-needed cosmetic improvements with an application to alter and extend a rundown property overlooking the town’s main square to provide six...
10 Apr 2019 - No comments
Plans to relocate Castlebrae Community High School to a purpose-built new building in Craigmillar town centre have been formalised with the submission of plans by JM Architects. A key plank...
10 Apr 2019 - No comments
North Lanarkshire Council has committed an additional £29.7m to kick-start revised Ravenscraig regeneration proposals to transform one of the largest brownfield sites in Europe. The cash...
10 Apr 2019 - No comments
Thistle, a charity dedicated to providing support for people with long-term health conditions, has advanced plans for a new community and wellbeing facility adjacent to its existing base in...
9 Apr 2019 - No comments
CCG have unveiled their latest residential development in the form of 35 mixed tenure rental properties off Paisley Road West in the Kinning Park area of Glasgow which take the place of a former...
9 Apr 2019 - No comments
Halliday Fraser Munro have put forward revised designs on behalf of Caledonia Housing Association and Robertson Partnership Homes for land off Slackbuie Farm Road, Inverness. The tweaked plans...
8 Apr 2019 - No comments
A 51,000sq/ft office block dating from 1989, formerly the headquarters of NHS Glasgow, has been earmarked for 71 flats under office to residential conversion plans filed by Young & Gault....
8 Apr 2019 - No comments
Landscape architecture studio Here + Now with architect Akiko Kobayashi is leading an initiative to deliver a temporary cultural hub comprising studios and workspaces at Portobello, Edinburgh....
5 Apr 2019 - No comments
Bigg Regeneration (the joint venture between Scottish Canals and Places for People Capital) are to follow-up completion of the latest phase of Maryhill Locks by bringing an innovative Dutch...
5 Apr 2019 - No comments
An historic Galashiels Church has been demolished in favour of 24 apartments for affordable rent in new plans filed with Borders Council by Camerons Architects and Cubby Construction. St...
4 Apr 2019 - No comments
Mast Architects have brought forward plans for 58 homes off Greenock’s Kilmacolm Road on behalf of Cloch Housing Association. The infill development will take place on a vacant site left by...
4 Apr 2019 - No comments
The MacDougall of Dunollie Preservation Trust has moved to build a museum store, shop and gallery space within a collection of B-listed abandoned steadings at Dunollie Castle, near Oban....
4 Apr 2019 - No comments
Innovate Homes have come forward with plans to build eight apartments in Troon South Ayrshire, in association with Thomson Hunter Architects. The plans call for the demolition of an existing...
3 Apr 2019 - No comments
An industrial estate in Linlithgow is to reposition itself as a sustainable business village with the introduction of flexible office space in a series of repurposed shipping containers....
3 Apr 2019 - No comments
Sanctuary Homes and Collective Architecture have worked up proposals to replace a high-rise housing estate to the north of Cumbernauld town centre. Burns Road, Kildrum, is currently occupied...
3 Apr 2019 - No comments
Midlothian Council have okayed construction of a £17m primary school and community hub on a 3.3-hectare site off Edmonstone Road, Danderhall. The education hub will serve as a direct...
2 Apr 2019 - No comments
Scottish Canals have formalised plans to introduce a new footbridge at the Stockingfield Junction of the Forth & Clyde Canal to reconnect a section of towpath severed by the construction of the...
2 Apr 2019 - No comments
Mosaic Architecture + Design are to carry out a series of urgent repairs to St Aloysius’ Church, Glasgow, after a £93,400 Heritage Lottery Fund grant was secured. The cash will fund vital...
2 Apr 2019 - No comments
City of Edinburgh Council is inviting the public to view plans for a sequence of public realm improvements planned for the City Centre West to East Link . The cycle route will connect Roseburn...
2 Apr 2019 - No comments
Aberdeen’s Pittodrie Street has been earmarked for 15 affordable homes with the emergence of a planning application for the urban brownfield site authored by Halliday Fraser Munro Architects....
2 Apr 2019 - No comments
Scotmid Cooperative and Manson have extended their partnership with submission of plans to overhaul a store at Leven Street, Edinburgh , hot on the heels of plans for a sister store at Gorgie...
1 Apr 2019 - No comments
ISA and Apex Hotels have teamed up to transform Edinburgh’s skyline forever by introducing a cable car link between the Grassmarket and the Castle. A feasibility study for the aerial link was...
1 Apr 2019 - No comments
River Clyde Homes are to build 226 flats and terraced houses on the outer edge of Port Glasgow, on site of the former St Stephen’s High School, after planning consent was granted. The £35m...

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