Search Results for

The project is the extension and renovation of a period property in a conservation area. It has been designed both as a bold contemporary statement, and a sensitive addition which respects and enhances the scale, form and character of the original...

The Tinhouse by Rural Design has recently been completed, and is perhaps our most personal project to date. Designed and self built by the practice founders Alan Dickson and Gill Smith, it has been used as a test bed for all aspects of the...

Our project at Blakeburn cottage involved the complete overhaul a nondescript mid-20th Century dwelling in order to create a unique and elegant home in a fantastic rural location near Melrose, Roxburghshire. The footprint was extended to the...

The refurbishment of two linked 1970 built housing blocks of 24 units each for Southside Housing Association. Approximately one-third of the units are privately owned with the remainder being socially rented accommodation. The exterior elevations...

Parkview is a prominent site to the west end of Dundee, its park-like setting compliments the adjacent Victoria Park to the east, Balgay Park to the north and the Western Cemetery to the South West. The main feature of the site is the exuberant...

In an exceptionally sensitive context; a World Heritage zone, the Old and New Town Conservation Areas, and adjacent to Holyrood Palace, The Scottish Parliament, Arthur’s Seat and Salisbury Crags; it was our hope to create a building which...

The development at Balmwell Terrace has delivered 43 new affordable housing units for Link Housing Association, comprising of a mix of 2-bed terraced family homes and 1 or 2 bedroom flats on the site of a former council office building. The...

Edinburgh based David Blaikie Architects release the first photographs of their recently completed remodelling of a small suburban house in the Blackhall area of Edinburgh.  The dramatic, angular, glazed extension doubles the size of the...

Powis Place accommodates 196 student rooms with associated common, staff and ancillary areas, all arranged around a centrallandscaped courtyard with car parking beneath. The building occupies a prominent urban block on one of the main...

The former Odeon, located between Buccleuch Street and Clerk Street in Edinburgh's South Side, was built in 1930 and operated as a cinema for over 70 years. The cinema is a Category A listed building which showcases some unique aspects of 1930s...

The agricultural landscape of Angus is the setting for 'Zinc-House', a purpose built home and office of 525m2 completed in 2015. The site topography is agrarian, expansive and deceptively undulous, it is also distinctly regularised, with the...

Pitmedden House is a Category C Listed Building located in a private estate near to Aberdeen Airport. The client’s brief was to replace the existing conservatory with a new garden room, suitable for use throughout the year, and with good...

The key aims of the project were to provide amenity housing (social let properties for age 55+) for Shettleston Housing Association. The development was designed to include 29 units with two wheelchair accessible. The homes incorporate a number of...

The proposal is for alterations and extension to an existing two storey stone farmhouse that is surrounded by arable land situated to the north of Arbroath, and includes the removal of the existing single storey byre and outhouses to form a one...

The site lies in Glasgow’s West End on Willowbank Crescent, within the Woodlands Conservation Area. It comprised of an existing Grade C listed three storey school building, designed by Alexander Petrie in 1900. The existing school...