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Dundee House is a rich layering of interwoven narratives that attempt to create a building that is a product of its brief yet is firmly grounded in the City of Dundee. The building responds to a very particular site, boldly retaining an historic...

Govan Gateway, sitting at the edge of Govan Town Centre, both defines the entrance to Govan and acts as a prominent symbol of the urban renewal of this inner city suburb. The commission was won through an open competition organised by Govan...

The New Intensive Care Unit at Glasgow Royal Infirmary was carried out in two phases and has provided state of the art ICU accommodation, within the existing Basil Spence designed Queen Elisabeth Building. Phase 1 took the vacated Medical...

In addressing the design for New Stobhill Hospital’s Ward Extension, we have made a deliberate effort to plan the building as a simple, clearly expressed form. The aim is to achieve a layout which is not only ‘legible’, but will...

5 Melville Street combines studios for an artist and an architect with workshops and living space. The building presents a tall minimalist facade to the street with a single ‘civic window’ or ‘cabinet’ which will house a...

Edinburgh creative agency 442 Design was contracted by Compass Group, who was awarded the catering contract for the eateries at Edinburgh Zoo, to create a design overhaul of the Zoo’s eateries in a bid to boost catering revenue. 442 took...

The new regional headquarters for the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, relocates laboratory and administrative departments, previously scattered across a number of sites in Aberdeen, into one building.  Although led by SEPA, the...

City Architecture Office designed the remodelling and extension of this typical pyramidal bungalow in the Colinton area of Edinburgh.  The brief was to create a modern family house with strong connections to the outdoors. The client wanted to...

A new 2 bedroom house for a private client at Norbu by Lochgarthside, Inverness-shire. The client wished to move from their present house by the main road to a quieter, less polluted setting on their 5 acre small-holding. The 12 year-old native...

Neil Sutherland Architects LLP were invited early in 2010 by Highland Birchwoods to submit proposals in an open competition for the design and construction of a new timber post and beam wildlife observation hide in Balblair Woods, Loch Fleet NNR...

Axis House provides Scotland Gas Networks with a centralised Edinburgh headquarters and has allowed them to rationalise a disparate workforce into a purpose built environment. The project provides a 2 storey office building and a single storey...

Following the Norwegian schools tour Gaia were asked to develop a brief for an exemplar school for Highland Council as part of the Sustainable Schools initiative. Gaia were subsequently successful in bidding for architectural services for a...

Inverness is Scotland’s newest city and the centre of Highland culture. As such it is undergoing transformation through development, environmental and cultural initiatives. The £6million streetscape project is an essential part of this...

As part of the Year of Highland Culture 2007, we were asked to design a multi-purpose platform for the use of diverse community groups as well as artists, writers, filmmakers and other groups on Forestry Commission land in Glen Nevis. Outlandia...

The project is part of a major project in the Highlands, 'Cairngorm: Reading a Landscape', with Arthur Watson, Will Maclean, Lei Cox, Andy Rice, Norman Shaw and Stanley Robertson. Our role was to design a camera obscura in collaboration with a...