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The form of the building evolved out of a response to neighbouring developments together with a desire to orientate the building towards sunlight and green space. The 7 storey tower responds to the accented towers of neighbouring Gorbals Queen...

The existing house, one of a series of identical Edwardian cottages in a small development facing onto generous shared landscaped gardens has a small individual private garden to the front and rear and is typified by coursed rubble sandstone walls...

The practice was appointed to design an innovative, low energy, eco house in the gorunds of an existing Victorian villa in Currie, Edinburgh. The house is super-insulated, air-tight, minimises cold-bridging and incorporates a sensible mix of...

Cliffside site with panoramic views of the Firth of Clyde. House was to be designed to be energy efficient, low maintenance and contemporary with flexible inside / outside living spaces.

Our clients, a Dutch/Scottish couple with a young family who had spent most of their married life together living in African returned to Scotland and rather unexpectedly purchased a site to build a house. We were among several architects they...

This is a replacement hall facility which is in the garden grounds of the listed St Columbas Church. The proposal was to be subservient to the main church and to reflect its images having small gables and the large glazed entrance giving a...

A garden room extension to form a generous kitchen / eating / living space that connects the post war bungalow to the garden and collects the evening sunlight. The day to day functioning of the house was enhanced with a new laundry room and...

Creating light filled open plan spaces for healthy living.

Holiday house for client who enjoys an outdoor lifestyle and collects modern Scottish art.   The brief was to provide a low maintenance, energy efficient, easy-to-manage contemporary house taking advantage of views of the Kyles of Bute.

The University has had a Field Station at Rowardennan for the past 40 years. It accommodates teaching research and residential accommodation for the Biology department. The existing facility is coming to the end of its useful life and is to be...

Background: CiAO won an invited competition in February 2004 to design an Arts & Education Centre for Out of the Blue Arts & Education Trust within the 11,000 sq.ft grade B listed former TA drill hall. This regeneration project has...

A new bird hide on the west bank of Loch Leven south of Kinross for The Rural Access Committee of Kinross-shire (TRACKS) and Scottish Natural Heritage, designed and installed as part of a phase of works extending the perimeter path...

The £35m Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences at the University of Strathclyde is the first major project on the Campus Development plan, bringing together the existing departments of the faculty; the Schools of Applied Physiology,...

Thermal upgrade of 4 ‘B’ listed Social Housing Units in Edinburgh. This project demonstrated that by using innovative materials in a new way significant improvements can be made to the thermal performance of older buildings often...

Dormont Park is a development of 8 new houses built, and certified, to PassivHaus standard for long term affordable rent.  Built with support from Scottish Government under the pilot Rural Homes for Rent grant scheme these houses are the very...