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23 Dec 2020 - No comments
It's been an eventful year not just in terms of headline hogging global black swans but at a local level through outbreaks of sketching, mergers and employee ownership drives - with the bread and...
23 Dec 2020 - No comments
Brown and Brown Architects have tabled plans for a pavilion home at Pitgrudy, just outside Dornoch. The Pillars benefits from a substantial 0.68-acre plot which already had approval for two...
22 Dec 2020 - No comments
Allan Murray Architects (AMA) have joined a growing band of architectural practices to place its destiny in the hands of its staff after entering into an employee ownership trust (EOT). The...
21 Dec 2020 - No comments
O’DonnellBrown have obtained planning consent to deliver four mews houses on landlocked vacant ground at Kelvinhaugh, Glasgow. Developed by Mitre Properties the West End build will see upside...
21 Dec 2020 - No comments
Keppie Design and the University of Edinburgh have set out proposed designs for an extension to the recently completed Anne Rowling Neurology Clinic at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Additional...
18 Dec 2020 - No comments
A masterplan to develop industrial land overlooking the Firth of Forth as a residential-led mixed-use neighbourhood is taking shape with a new proposal of application notice put forward by Manse....
18 Dec 2020 - No comments
Moray Council has agreed to contribute £3.9m towards the creation of a new cultural quarter in Elgin centred on the B-listed Grant Lodge. The 18th-century mansion, latterly a library, will be...
17 Dec 2020 - No comments
Halliday Fraser Munro, on behalf of Drum Property and Camvo 123, have pivoted to a plan b to develop a contentious 1.3-hectare site at the foot of Leith Walk after encountering heavy resistance to...
17 Dec 2020 - No comments
City of Edinburgh planners have awarded consent to a 76-bed student housing development at 65 London Road designed by 3DReid Architects on behalf of HG Developments. The gusset site is...
17 Dec 2020 - No comments
A £14m care home has opened in Clydebank in compliance with Covid-19 guidance following delivery by CCG on behalf of West Dunbartonshire Council Health and Social Care Partnership (WDHSCP)....
17 Dec 2020 - No comments
Springfield Properties have commenced work on 114 homes for affordable and mid-market rent at Dalmarnock Road , Glasgow, on behalf of West of Scotland Housing Association. The £18.2m will...
16 Dec 2020 - No comments
The City of Edinburgh Council has declared that it is minded to approve the Southern Phase of Parabola's Edinburgh Park masterplan subject to legal agreement. Approval clears the way for...
16 Dec 2020 - No comments
NHS Lanarkshire have recommended that Wester Moffat go forward as the preferred location for a new University Hospital Monklands . The chosen site won out against competition from Gartcosh and...
15 Dec 2020 - No comments
Plans to erect an 11-storey 'temple for film' in Edinburgh's Festival Square have been reduced in scale following four-months of public consultation. The New Filmhouse has undergone a...
15 Dec 2020 - No comments
Detailed plans have been drawn up for the activation of a former warehouse on Kingston Street, Glasgow, to serve as an integral element of the wider Barclays campus developing around it....
14 Dec 2020 - No comments
3DReid Architects have shared their entry in a Network Rail design competition to pave the way for a new generation of community-oriented British railway stations. Updating an off the shelf...
14 Dec 2020 - No comments
Ashleigh Building and Denham/Benn are seeking planning permission in principle to build 39 amenity flats and 32 parking bays in Ayr town centre. Replacing a disused warehouse and yard on the...
11 Dec 2020 - No comments
Fund manager Legal & General has published plans to develop a former department store at 109-112 Princes Street , Edinburgh, as a 210-bed hotel. A design team led by ICA have been commissioned...
11 Dec 2020 - No comments
Parabola have detailed their intent to erect a further pair of sculptures to help define the Southern Phase masterplan at Edinburgh Park. Sited at Lochside Crescent near the tram viaduct and...
10 Dec 2020 - No comments
The first large-scale water source heat pump of its kind in Scotland has been completed in Clydebank as the hub of a new centralised heating system. The District Heating Network is centred on a...
10 Dec 2020 - No comments
Network Rail with BAM Nuttal and AECOMhave drawn up fresh plans for a railway station serving Inverness Airport Business Park at Dalcross near the new town of Tornagrain. The double platform...
9 Dec 2020 - No comments
Former RIAS secretary Neil Baxter has returned to the arts scene as director of BaxterJardine, a Glasgow and Berlin-based publisher of consumer and business journals and periodicals. Co-founded...
9 Dec 2020 - No comments
An architect has hit upon a novel solution for flat dwellers without access to a garden or allotment who wish to grow food with a novel hydroponic planter which requires no soil or electricity....
9 Dec 2020 - No comments
Detailed plans to transform the A-listed Crichton Hall in Dumfries and Galloway into a 5-star hotel have been filed by Edit Architecture. The former psychiatric hospital was sold by the NHS...
8 Dec 2020 - No comments
Five projects across the North East with a combined value of £25m are to break ground, with Bancon Construction contracted to deliver each. The Aberdeenshire firm has been named preferred...
8 Dec 2020 - No comments
Bruach Design and Merchant Homes have instigated a public consultation in which they detail proposals to develop vacant ground at Southloch Street, Springburn , with 84 flats for social rent...
8 Dec 2020 - No comments
MNM Developments have resumed construction of a £12m development of 77 apartments at West Bowling Green Street, Leith, following a pandemic pause. First conceived by EMA Architects , with...
7 Dec 2020 - No comments
A disused Job Centre in Parkhead, Glasgow, dating from 1993 is to form the basis of 14 new apartments and four townhouses under plans filed by ZM Architecture. Norman House on Duke Street has...
7 Dec 2020 - No comments
A new Edinburgh-based architectural practice with a focus on the residential market has been launched to deliver a new generation of social housing. Led by former Barton Willmore architecture...
4 Dec 2020 - No comments
Mansion Kingdom Homes have launched a collection of modern townhouses at Glebe Wynd, Bothwell, spread across four blocks. Designed by IIxII Architects the development of 12 terraced properties...
4 Dec 2020 - No comments
A long-abandoned Flax Mill near Loch Tummel, Perthshire, has served as the genesis for a dramatic £220k cantilevered home in balance with nature. Governed by a desire to retain as much of the...
4 Dec 2020 - No comments
The City of Edinburgh Council has given the go-ahead for the delivery of 150 affordable homes on the site of the former Silverlea Care Home at the fringes of the wider Granton Waterfront...
3 Dec 2020 - No comments
West Dunbartonshire Council has unveiled proposals for a series of public realm improvements between Dumbarton Central station and the town centre. Designed to improve connectivity, the...
3 Dec 2020 - No comments
A £200k Scandinavian-inspired community hub has been delivered at Uphall Station Village , near Livingston West Lothian, by Dundas Estates. Stretching to 900sq/ft the development forms the...
2 Dec 2020 - No comments
A pioneering self-build homes pilot project is taking shape at Maryhill Locks after Glasgow City Council facilitated the release of six plots for development. First to emerge is plot 4 by...
2 Dec 2020 - No comments
Novel proposals to decarbonise electricity production with the UK's first 'holistic' low carbon energy facility have secured £800m of investment from North China Power Engineering following a...
2 Dec 2020 - No comments
An architects mission to single-handedly document 30 lighthouses designed by civil engineer Robert Stevenson and his descendants is storming ahead with a further three beacons immortalised in...
1 Dec 2020 - No comments
Elderpark Housing Association have gone back to the future for their new headquarters, a fully restored Victorian school in Govan. The former Hills Trust Primary School has been transformed...
1 Dec 2020 - No comments
City Building are to build a dedicated training college to consolidate its apprenticeship and training programmes. The City Building Training College is to rise within the grounds of Royal...
1 Dec 2020 - No comments
The Glasgow Institute of Architects have recognised eight projects which have shaped the built environment for the better in their 2020 awards programme. Leading the way is the £34.6m...

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