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31 Jan 2020 - No comments
A Govanhill gap site is set to be transformed by the creation of 24 flats under new plans championed by Govanhill Housing Association and Coltart Earley Architecture. The team have earmarked...
31 Jan 2020 - No comments
Edinburgh’s Annandale Street has been targeted for an 11-home infill development by Hackland + Dore Architects which will see the practice demolish their studio to capitalise on the air space...
30 Jan 2020 - No comments
A team of students from Heriot-Watt University are preparing to jet off to Dubai to participate in the World Expo 2020 and Solar Decathlon Middle East (SDME) competition. Led by students with...
30 Jan 2020 - No comments
Dark Sky Spirits have obtained planning consent from Dumfries & Galloway Council to press ahead with a craft distillery and visitor centre at Old Carlisle Road, Moffat. The parting of red...
29 Jan 2020 - No comments
Glasgow City Council has granted approval for a 350,000sq/ft retail and leisure development on brownfield land where the River Kelvin meets the Clyde. Consisting of some 120 individual shops in...
29 Jan 2020 - No comments
An alliance of heritage bodies has been formed under the stewardship of the Alexander Thomson Society in an effort to break a 40-year impasse which has left Glasgow’s A-listed Egyptian Halls in...
28 Jan 2020 - No comments
Page\Park Architects have followed up their Laurieston housing with the handover of a new headquarters for New Gorbals Housing Association. Designed as the centrepiece of the Crown Street...
28 Jan 2020 - No comments
Scottish Borders Council has presented its vision for the future of Tweedbank in draft documents designed to guide a new masterplan for the village. Tweedbank – A Vision for Growth and...
27 Jan 2020 - No comments
An underutilised back lane off Portobello High Street, Edinburgh, could play host to a family home under plans submitted by Haar Architects. St Mary’s Place Lane has been earmarked for a...
27 Jan 2020 - No comments
CALA Homes have unveiled their first show homes at Jordanhill Park , a development of 400 new homes within and around the B-listed David Stow building in the city’s west end. Designed by 7N...
24 Jan 2020 - No comments
Paisley has become the focal point for a town centre revival plan which is being heralded as a blueprint for other secondary urban centres wishing to arrest their long-term decline.   Vision...
24 Jan 2020 - No comments
Savills have begun marketing the latest apartment scheme to spring up in Finnieston, Glasgow, with new images released for The Works.   Located on Gilbert Street the project will deliver a...
23 Jan 2020 - No comments
Glasgow City Council is pursuing plans to part-pedestrianise George Square by closing off its east and west sides to all vehicles while banning private cars from arterial routes to the north and...
23 Jan 2020 - No comments
A disused school in Kirkcaldy has been taken on by Whiteburn Projects and LBA Architects who aim to build 96 homes within the main building and surrounding grounds.   14 of these homes will...
22 Jan 2020 - No comments
A hotel bonanza in Glasgow shows no sign of abating with plans brought forward for a further 252-bed venue on St Vincent Street by Artisan Real Estate and Hawkins/Brown. A fourteen storey...
22 Jan 2020 - No comments
Renfrewshire Council has released the first images of a new learning and cultural hub to be carved out of a vacant High Street tenement to consolidate library services over four floors. The...
22 Jan 2020 - No comments
Environmental consultancy LUC has become a full employee-owned business with the formation of an employee ownership trust to permit broader-based governance. The change in ownership will see...
21 Jan 2020 - No comments
Smith Scott Mullan Architects have completed their conversion of the former Harbourmaster’s office in Stranraer, a key element of the town’s conservation area. Now in community use the...
21 Jan 2020 - No comments
Glasgow City Council has published its draft regeneration plans for Blythswood as part of ongoing efforts to revitalise the city centre through to 2030. Designed to improve connections with...
21 Jan 2020 - No comments
Page\Park Architects have followed up their work at Glasgow’s Theatre Royal with a radical overhaul and extension of Leeds Playhouse to improve accessibility and establish a bright new...
21 Jan 2020 - No comments
MacTaggart & Mickel are to move on-site with a development of 48 flats within a disused Anniesland office block over three years after first obtaining planning consent, owing to difficulties in...
20 Jan 2020 - No comments
McAleer and Rushe have moved on-site with the delivery of 465 hotel beds in Glasgow as part of a redevelopment of the A-listed Custom House. This will see the Clyde Street landmark refurbished...
20 Jan 2020 - No comments
A church hall in Dingwall is set for expansion with the submission of plans prepared by Reynolds Architecture. An application has gone before Highland Council calling for significant alteration...
17 Jan 2020 - No comments
The University of St Andrews with BMJ Architects have completed a marine research centre to support oceanic science via a bespoke temperature-controlled aquarium. The £16.5m Scottish Oceans...
16 Jan 2020 - No comments
A former hotel in Kinross is to be demolished to allow a retirement living scheme to be built following approval from Perth & Kinross Council. Windlestrae Hotel has been taken on by Juniper...
16 Jan 2020 - No comments
Meininger Hotels have filed formal plans to build a 160-room hotel on West George Street, Glasgow, with plans to demolish the disused Dale House rather than retain the structure. The...
15 Jan 2020 - No comments
A high profile southside housing development has taken in shape in Glasgow with completion nearing at CCG’s Riverford Gardens development in Pollokshaws. Built alongside the White Cart...
15 Jan 2020 - No comments
Cairngorms National Park Authority has granted planning approval for a new whisky distillery at Craggan on the outskirts of Grantown-on-Spey. Designs by TGP and Norr detail a new distillery,...
15 Jan 2020 - No comments
3DReid Architects have applied to build a new community hub in Cowie, Stirling, procured through the local authority on behalf of Hub East Central. The Main Street build will centre on a...
14 Jan 2020 - No comments
Intelligence Buildings Infrastructure, acting on behalf of Carttera, have slimmed down plans for residential development at Aberdeen’s Hill of Rubislaw by reducing the accommodation on offer...
14 Jan 2020 - No comments
North Ayrshire Council has granted planning consent to the creation of a community hub at Kilbirnie Loch, Garnock, which will double as a focal point for the Lochshore masterplan. Delivered...
13 Jan 2020 - No comments
The owner of Glasgow’s at-risk Egyptian Halls has warned of the potential for structural failure that could knock out power supplies to Central Station and the surrounding area and endanger...
13 Jan 2020 - No comments
The former College of Building and Printing in Glasgow is to begin a new lease of life as grade A office space in a joint venture between Osborne + Co and Scotsbridge Holdings. The B-listed...
13 Jan 2020 - No comments
Ongoing consultations have delivered several adjustments to the planned Candleriggs Square proposals in Glasgow, including a modest increase in height for its tallest element. Led by Drum...
10 Jan 2020 - No comments
Edinburgh councillors are giving consideration approval of a city-wide connectivity revolution with plans to extend the tram network north to Granton and south to the Bio Quarter while clearing...
10 Jan 2020 - No comments
S1 Developments Group and CDA Architects have teamed up to deliver a new student residential development within a C-listed former chapel within Edinburgh’s Marchmont, Meadows and Bruntsfield...
10 Jan 2020 - No comments
Aberdeen Council planners are being asked to approve plans to for a mixed residential build at Salisbury Terrace to provide boarding accommodation leased to the Albyn School. Led by Dumrossie...
9 Jan 2020 - No comments
The C-listed Forthland House in Edinburgh’s Trinity conservation area has become subject to a planned remodelling including the re-clad of a pastiche extension to better complement the manor...
9 Jan 2020 - No comments
The Scottish Prison Service has tabled plans for a new HMP Glasgow on vacant National Grid land at Provanmill, adjacent to a decommissioned gas storage site. Designed by BakerHicks to...
9 Jan 2020 - No comments
Halliday Fraser Munro are to further change the face of Aberdeen with an application to build 33 apartments at Union Glen . The proposal calls for the regeneration of an urban lane just a...
8 Jan 2020 - No comments
Craigmillar has been chosen to host a mixed-use dementia care development comprising a care centre, assisted living homes and student accommodation. Plans submitted by 3DReid detail an...
8 Jan 2020 - No comments
Dalmarnock is the focus for another major planning application with the submission of plans to build 151 flats on brownfield land at Newhall Street . Led by Swan Group and Mast Architects the...
8 Jan 2020 - No comments
Edinburgh’s Cameron Toll Shopping Centre is in line for significant expansion with the submission of plans for a new cinema and additional retail under a new masterplan for the site. Lady...
7 Jan 2020 - No comments
Clyde Gateway together with Sheppard Robson and Inch Architecture & Design have presente4d proposals to transform a disused gas works in Dalmarnock, Glasgow, into office accommodation. The...
7 Jan 2020 - No comments
This decadal issue of Urban Realm marks not only a transition to the 2020’s but also the tenth anniversary of our rebrand from Prospect magazine.   To mark our 40th issue we’ve...
7 Jan 2020 - No comments
Hackland + Dore Architects have brought forward plans to form an office extension to an existing steading at Liberton Brae , Edinburgh. The proposals call for replacement of existing...
6 Jan 2020 - No comments
Ayrshire Housing Association has firmed up plans to create 31 homes in the heart of Ayr with a full planning submission for their Carrick Street build. Conceived in partnership with...
6 Jan 2020 - No comments
Glasgow Airport could benefit from a Copenhagen-style automated Metro connection following an agreement between Glasgow and Renfrewshire Council’s to fund a new Metro-style connection to...
6 Jan 2020 - No comments
NHS Grampian has filed plans for a £53m elective care centre adjacent to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary to provide ‘one-stop’ patient services. A submission by Mackie Ramsay Taylor...
6 Jan 2020 - No comments
Glasgow Housing Association and Anderson Bell + Christie Architects have teamed up to deliver 26 homes on the site of a former school off Damshot Crescent , overlooking the White Cart River in...
6 Jan 2020 - No comments
The City of Edinburgh Council is leading efforts to build a new sports facility on the site of the current Bangholm Outdoor Centre at Craighall Road, on behalf of Trinity Academy. Architects...

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