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The new Primary and Nursery school is located on a prominent gateway site on the edge of Peebles. The building design has been treated as a cluster of buildings expressing their varying functions and are generally domestic in scale creating an...

An elegant exercise in concrete, steel and glass, set in parkland; Scotstoun House is an exemplar of 1960’s construction: uncompromisingly modernist and aspirational. Its £3.5m renovation and extension combined several challenges: the...

The house is situated on a gently sloping south facing site on a raised beach with panoramic views of the Beauly Firth to the south, mountains to the west, complete with a stream forming the eastern boundary of the site. The brief , to create a...

The David Walker Care Home is a purpose built community facility with 48 individual accommodation suites for residents. The home has a reception area, restaurant, café (open to the public), hairdressing salon, fitness room, all designed...

The John Hope Gateway is a threshold into the secret world of Edinburgh's Royal Botanic Garden with exhibitions, a media studio, shops, a restaurant and a new bio-diversity garden. A porous ground floor allows visitors to enter and leave...

The most northerly classical country house in Britain, Belmont was built in 1775 overlooking the Bluemull Sound and the ferry southwards to Yell and Mainland Shetland. The house was in an advanced stage of dereliction when The Belmont Trust was...

Dean Cottage sits in heavily wooded surroundings and was extended to create a large family home. At an early stage it was decided that as much as possible of the existing fabric of the cottage should be retained, the relationship of original core...

A Grade B Listed building, situated in in the Conservation Area of Portobello, Edinburgh, the initial brief was for an extension. It quickly became clear however that an extension would do more harm than good, darkening the interior and limiting...

2 New bookends at Aboukir Street provide 24 apartments, comprising 12 shared equity homes and 12 wheelchair accessible apartments for rent by Linthouse Housing Association. The bookend blocks occupy two gap sites where historic tenement stock...

The proposal is to provide a 24 bed low security dementia and mental health unit on the grounds of NHS Fife, Stratheden. Patient accommodation is split into 2 wings for organic and functional groups of patients respectively, and is separated by...

Coltart Earley Architecture were appointed by Riverside Inverclyde in 2009 to design a new children’s nursery in Riverside Business Park, Greenock. The design for the nursery presented us with the challenge of relating to the scale of the...

The existing house, the last before Rosslyn Chapel, was a fairly typical example of 1960’s residential architecture, with uninsulated walls, poor glazing and a roof seriously in need of repair. The site stands at a dramatic position in...

The plot one terrace appealed to us as a practice as it is a typology that addresses frontage and is both at home in the city and the country.  We were intrigued by the linear strength of groups of farmworkers cottages, long low byres and...

Affordable housing development for Mactaggart & Mickel / Dunedin Canmore Housing Association as part of the St Marks Quay Residential Project. The development sits within the boundary of the Lochrin Place Residential Development site which...

The house is sited in a natural concave area of hillside facing principally west along the contours to enjoy the spectacular landscape setting of the river Ken valley and the ridges of the Rhinns of Kells hills opposite. The intention was to...