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The sea, sky, wind, sand and rock combine to make the western shore of the Outer Hebrides a unique environment which poses real challenges for living and designing due to its remoteness and extreme weather, but it has a rugged beauty which is...

The Museum of Edinburgh houses a large proportion of City owned objects relating to its industries, its urban development and its citizens. The Grade ‘A’ listed buildings themselves form the largest group of C16th urban buildings...

The Highlanders’ Museum was re-opened in March 2013 by HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. The museum is one of the most highly regarded regimental museums in the United Kingdom. It is situated within Fort George, one of the finest and...

‘Designed to be sensitive to context whilst being contemporary in style, Bent Primary School extends an existing and locally popular stone schoolhouse. The agricultural setting was the main influence for materials and form chosen. The...

The Glebe Cottage is a refurbished farm bothy and converted adjoining goat-shed creating a comfortable home in the Angus countryside. The project merges the historic fabric of the original listed cottage with modern elements in order to create...

In 2008, KSA were approached by the clients to design a new build house, in the Angus countryside, north of Montrose. Our client, wished to develop a site passed through the family and in close proximity to her childhood home at Kinnaber. The site...

Lunan Bay Café & Farm Shop is a new build commercial premises located in the picturesque Lunan Bay area of Angus. The project brief was to create a new premises for our client’s business which was previously located in a converted...

Our clients initially approached us following the purchase of a traditional granite dwelling situated on the affluent Queens Road in Aberdeen City. Having downsized from a large traditional Old Manse dwelling on the outskirts of Aberdeen, they...

The brief was to create two terraced housing blocks within in Balvicar which was sympathetic to the local traditional style. The massing of the terraced blocks on the corner of the road junction lends importance and formality to the edge of the...

Austin-Smith:Lord has assisted North Lanarkshire Venues team in refurbishment and essential conservation and improvements to the category ‘B’ Listed Town Hall and theatre within Airdrie. The aims of the project was to restore the...

This building is the latest contribution to a long collaboration with our client, beginning with construction of their farmhouse in 1999. ZincWoodStone was conceived as architecture, very much of its time rather than a continuation in the language...

The project was to conserve, technically improve and sensitively adapt the former Gartnavel Royal Hospital Chapel. The brief was to transform it into a flagship therapy centre, The Calman Cancer Support Centre, to accommodate their provision of...

Renfrew Police Office is the first of a new generation of police facilities instigated by the Chief Constable of Strathclyde Police in 2010. The client required a building which exhibited low energy use to achieve the highest Building Energy...

The Big Shed is a new community building serving a scattered rural population in Highland Perthshire. The design brief was for flexible spaces for use by individuals, groups and small businesses in the community. The project was to demonstrate the...

The original 1960s house has been fully reconfigured at ground floor with the introduction of a new, double-height, glazed entrance space leading in one direction to the new extension to the rear and in the other (the original building) to a TV...