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29 Mar 2024 - No comments
The city of Perth is gearing up for the long-awaited opening of its new museum this weekend following an extensive overhaul of the former City Hall by Mecanoo Architects. Opening to the public...
29 Mar 2024 - No comments
North Lanarkshire Council is progressing a twin-pronged programme to clear dysfunctional housing in the Carbrain district of Cumbernauld by progressing a planning application for new homes in...
28 Mar 2024 - No comments
A distinctive brick rotunda close to the Hydro entertainment venue is Glasgow, is to become a supporting act for its big brother under new plans filed by the Forrest Group. The North Rotunda...
28 Mar 2024 - No comments
A city block-hugging office building in Glasgow's CBD is set for redevelopment in a bid to rival new build competitors following a fall in occupancy rates. Dating from 1986 the former Britoil...
27 Mar 2024 - No comments
NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde (NHSGGC) is to commence work on a new health and social care facility in Renfrewshire within weeks. The Bishopton & Dargavel satellite facility, located in Dargavel...
27 Mar 2024 - No comments
The University of Edinburgh has taken the next step in the evolution of its King's Buildings Campus with the launch of a consultation to demolish the Darwin Tower  (scheduled for September)....
26 Mar 2024 - No comments
An application by Springfield Properties to erect 45 affordable flats overlooking a busy roundabout in the Ferguslie district of Paisley has been refused by councillors amidst concern around...
26 Mar 2024 - No comments
A mixed-use inner city development close to Glasgow's historic core is set for completion, 20 years after work first began. Dawn Developments and Drum Property Group are returning to...
25 Mar 2024 - No comments
Early-stage plans for a significant residential-led development in West Edinburgh designed by 3DReid are to be shared on Wednesday. Summix Capital has identified a 15.5-acre brownfield site of...
25 Mar 2024 - No comments
A modest timber garage in the village of Toberonochy on the Isle of Luing is to be replaced by a one-bedroom tourist bothy designed by Line Architecture amidst talk of a revival in slate...
22 Mar 2024 - No comments
A student housing block in Aberdeen city centre is set to branch out with plans to create an external amenity space including gardens and a study pavilion. Mealmarket Exchange at West North...
22 Mar 2024 - No comments
Wheatley Homes has launched a second pre-planning consultation governing the delivery of 69 homes in Easterhouse, Glasgow. Land to the north of Lochend Road and bounded by Auchengill Road...
21 Mar 2024 - No comments
Oliver Chapman, the founder of Oliver Chapman Architects (OCA), has passed away his practice has announced. Chapman founded the studio in 1997 with an emphasis on the sensitive re-use of...
21 Mar 2024 - No comments
Glasgow City Council is inviting the public to have their say on a series of public realm improvements designed to promote active travel in the West End after re-launching the project....
20 Mar 2024 - No comments
Transport Scotland has advanced design development on medium and long-term solutions for a landslip-prone section of the A83 in Argyll and Bute. A stretch of road leading to the Rest & Be...
20 Mar 2024 - No comments
Wemyss Properties has held a second public consultation ahead of a detailed planning submission in May for the site of the former Hillhead Baptist Church  on Cresswell Street . The extent...
20 Mar 2024 - No comments
Glasgow City Council has given unanimous consent for a new residential neighbourhood in Cowcaddens, Glasgow, to be built from the bones of a failed office block. One Cowcaddens will...
19 Mar 2024 - No comments
Forth Ports has shared early-stage plans for a waterfront neighbourhood at The Port of Leith comprising 337 homes, 224 sq/m of commercial space and retail. Harbour 31 is the subject of an...
19 Mar 2024 - No comments
A stalled apartment block first approved for a ' challenging ' site at West Granton Road, Edinburgh, back in 2018 is set to finally break ground. Amendments have been made to the 11 flat...
18 Mar 2024 - No comments
Elder & Cannon Architects have returned with revised proposals for a residential infill development at 1021-1027 Argyle Street , Glasgow. The chamfered block will draw back from the railway...
18 Mar 2024 - No comments
Inverclyde Council has awarded planning consent for an 'eco-friendly' home at Port Glasgow Road , Kilmacolm. A garden plot close to the village centre has been chosen for the build, which will...
15 Mar 2024 - No comments
Full planning consent has been awarded for the restoration, refurbishment and extension of a forgotten 17th-century house , once a summer home for the Bishops of Glasgow, into a wedding venue....
15 Mar 2024 - No comments
Proposals have been made to demolish a turn of the century garage at Ratcliffe Terrace in the Newington district of Edinburgh in order to replace it with 59 student bedrooms. Kenneth Reid...
14 Mar 2024 - No comments
A Glasgow hotel is to undergo significant expansion with the addition of a 90-bedroom rooftop extension above the ballroom on Cambridge Street . Axiom Architects propose to extend the...
14 Mar 2024 - No comments
A programme of shopfront improvements, lighting installation and hand-painted signage upgrades are to breathe new life into the underbelly of Glasgow's Central Station, last refurbished in the...
13 Mar 2024 - No comments
The grounds of Taymouth Castle are to be augmented by a random vertical timber comfort station under new plans prepared by McKenzie Strickland Associates. The golf amenity building will be...
12 Mar 2024 - No comments
The closure of a historic distillery in Port Dundas, Glasgow, has accelerated the transition of the largely industrial zone to residential use. The latest example of this shift comes from...
12 Mar 2024 - No comments
New life is to be breathed into the vacant upper floors of a historic building in Stirling city centre after building warrant approval was given for their conversion to offices and an apart-hotel...
11 Mar 2024 - No comments
Glasgow's Charing Cross neighbourhood is set for further dramatic transformation with the submission of an application for planning in principle for a £250m urban wall of homes, student housing,...
11 Mar 2024 - No comments
An alternative vision has been set out for an under-threat North Glasgow cinema, illustrating how its ornate Art Deco facade could live on as the face of a new mixed use development. Architect...
7 Mar 2024 - No comments
Whiteburn Projects have shown off their development of 87 new homes on the site of a C-listed former school in Kirkcaldy. The brownfield site has been transformed with the help of LBA...
7 Mar 2024 - No comments
Long-awaited plans to regenerate Glasgow's Wyndford estate have been shared by the Wheatley Group following the controversy surrounding the demolition of four tower blocks . The social housing...
7 Mar 2024 - No comments
West Lothian Council has embraced modular construction to help provide supported housing for homeless young people in Livingston town centre. Delivered in partnership with Hub South East and...
7 Mar 2024 - No comments
Work has begun to deliver 12 energy-efficient apartments in Blackford, Edinburgh, the first new affordable homes for social rent to be built in the area for 60 years. CALA Homes East are...
6 Mar 2024 - No comments
A B-listed church tucked away off Edinburgh's Grassmarket is to be revitalised as part of moves designed to resolve fire protection issues. The Jesuit Trust propose to refurbish and alter The...
6 Mar 2024 - No comments
An industrial site in Glasgow's Cathcart district, famed for the manufacture of pump equipment, is to power the flow of new homes in the area with approval for 254 apartments. Celeros Flow...
5 Mar 2024 - No comments
Glasgow City Council has published a draft city centre strategy that builds on the inherent strengths of its urban core to pull in more tourism, commerce and residents. Governing the period to...
5 Mar 2024 - No comments
A high-profile brownfield site beneath Glasgow's Kingston Bridge is to emerge from the shadows after planning consent was awarded for hundreds of homes. Dandara Living has been greenlit to...
5 Mar 2024 - No comments
Clydeport has taken another step toward a major upgrade of its Hunterston construction yard to accommodate offshore renewables infrastructure. The former coal port is transitioning to new forms...
4 Mar 2024 - No comments
South Ayrshire Council with Ironside Farrar have drawn up an indicative investment plan for Ayr through to 2035 that places a reimagined railway station at the heart of the town centre....
4 Mar 2024 - No comments
Edinburgh Steiner School has set out how it could deliver additional classrooms within the grounds of its C-listed suburban home. Benjamin Tindall Architects have been briefed to increase...
4 Mar 2024 - No comments
A blocked bid to build student flats on the site of a former Sauchiehall Street department store is back with amended proposals to address councillors' concerns of an over-provision of student...
1 Mar 2024 - No comments
Plans for 435 homes in principle as part of the westward greenfield march of Aberdeen have been filed by Aberdeen City Council. Part of the Greenferns masterplan the residential build by...
1 Mar 2024 - No comments
Keppie Design is looking to the future while maintaining continuity with the past by becoming the latest architecture studio to embrace employee ownership. As of today, precisely 170 years...

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