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11 Jan 2017
Glasgow City Council’s city centre strategy has identified nine ‘character’ zones which are to be the...
11 Jan 2017
In the run-up to next year’s local elections in Scotland how many times will the built environment, old and new, be...
11 Jan 2017
St. Petri Kyrka is 50 years old. It’s a brick kirk in a small town called Klippan, which lies in the Skåne...
11 Jan 2017
Over the past eight years you may have missed a quiet revolution taking place in the skyline of Glasgow. Waking up late on...
11 Jan 2017
When fire ripped through the priceless innards of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s sublime Glasgow School of Art many...
11 Jan 2017
Oriam (Or is Gaelic for gold) has been conceived by the Scottish government in a bid to turn around the fortunes of an...
18 Jan 2017
Over the past 12 months Urban Realm has been busily collating staff and fee income from Scotland’s biggest...
21 Apr 2017
Over the course of a series of case studies, a gallery spread and interviews to highlight how current thinking is...
21 Apr 2017
With the bicentenary of Alexander ‘Greek’ Thomson’s birth upon us eyes are turning to the progress (or...
21 Apr 2017
We are indeed in a hole and it is a deep one. At its basis is the fundamental issue of not having enough housing, of the...
24 Apr 2017
Historic Environment Scotland’s decision to award a pair of Leith public housing blocks with its highest listing...
24 Apr 2017
Complaints of short term thinking have long plagued the construction industry but having spent 14 years delivering...
24 Apr 2017
Many architects nowadays avoid entering design competitions, the reasons being many and varied. Principal amongst these,...
24 Apr 2017
If you raise the subject of competitions in Scotland, prepare to stand well back. The reaction of many architects is...
24 Apr 2017
A challenging retail environment has long forced town centres to adapt or die and with shopping malls now coming under...
24 Apr 2017
Built in 1927 Glasgow’s Kelvin Hall has long served as a civic and cultural showpiece for the city but with the...
24 Apr 2017
Models are useful. No other device comes close as a means to communicate and scrutinise an idea about a space, a building,...
24 Apr 2017
It may surprise many architects – particularly younger ones who may know nothing of this at all – but one of...
10 Jul 2017
Anyone even remotely acquainted with the arguments surrounding Britain’s housing crisis may be forgiven for thinking...
10 Jul 2017
Collisions might first bring to mind violent meetings of the car crash variety but for land artist Charles Jencks, creator...
10 Jul 2017
A new cultural hub for Dunfermline, a decade in gestation, has finally been born and the first wave of visitors to the...
10 Jul 2017
As practices grapple with succession planning, a fairer division of the spoils and a more diverse leadership employee...
10 Jul 2017
As diplomatic tensions regularly approach boiling point, news headlines continue to report on North Korean missile tests,...
10 Jul 2017
BOOM!!!
It’s January 1949, and New Murthly Castle has just been dynamited. The explosion...
It’s January 1949, and New Murthly Castle has just been dynamited. The explosion...
10 Jul 2017
Scotland has developed an international reputation for surfing courtesy of an extensive coastline and tempestuous seas but...
20 Oct 2017
The Syrian conflict may be receding from our TV screens as the fighting subsides but for many of those caught up in the...
20 Oct 2017
Having travelled the globe writing Exploring Vancouver and Exploring Bangkok world weary architecture critic Robin Ward...
20 Oct 2017
The forgotten conservators, academics and musicians of the University of Edinburgh’s St Cecilia Hall have long...
20 Oct 2017
There is a German word, sehnsucht, which has no direct translation; roughly speaking it means an inconsolable longing for...
23 Oct 2017
The climb up North Hanover Street’s steep hill from George Square to Cathedral Street is dominated by the empty...
23 Oct 2017
Edinburgh’s St Andrew Square has remained at the beating heart of the city’s financial industry for the better...
23 Oct 2017
The Architecture Fringe exists to inspire, encourage and support new ideas and wider agency to help foster a culture of...
23 Oct 2017
The Architecture Fringe was founded on its Open Programme - the simple idea that the Fringe could be a platform for the...
23 Oct 2017
As an architect who defected into architectural journalism, I take a professional interest in the architectural press and...
23 Oct 2017
The development system in Scotland is a dysfunctional bureaucracy that breeds a culture of mediocrity amongst the...
23 Oct 2017
As part of Urban Realm’s Architecture Fringe tie-up we recently staged a one-off distillation of our...
27 Oct 2017
To shine light on all this and more we've brought together Richard Campbell, project director at Woolgar Hunter; Phil...
22 Jan 2018
To better manage the sheer scale of work, practices and individual effort we’ve approached the formidable task of...
24 Jan 2018
2017 was the 250th anniversary of the first Edinburgh New Town, an event with significance then but clearly not now, even...
24 Jan 2018
The provision of housing in the UK - or the lack of - is, without doubt, one of the biggest political issues of our time,...
24 Jan 2018
Paisley’s traffic choked Hawkhead Road is the setting for Page\Park Architects latest collaboration with Scottish...
25 Jan 2018
What the tabloids call “Judy Murray’s Tennis Academy” at Park of Keir, just outside Dunblane, has been...
25 Jan 2018
Procurement is one of those words guaranteed to make architects - and many others in the design and construction industry...
25 Jan 2018
Newly installed RIBA president Ben Derbyshire may have been in post for only four months but he has already hit the ground...
25 Jan 2018
2017, a rollercoaster year for seaside towns seeking a remedy to their decline. Hastings Pier had remarkably overcome a...
25 Jan 2018
Much of the country lies in the grip of a housing crisis but nowhere is the crisis more acute than Edinburgh, where a...
16 Apr 2018
The following projects demonstrate deft adoption of an eclectic range of styles from Mackintosh to industrial...
17 Apr 2018
In September 2017 Chris Leslie, award winning documentary photographer and film maker and Jonathan Charley, writer and...
17 Apr 2018
Britain faces a big housing problem but might the solution lie in small-scale interventions to the existing built fabric...
17 Apr 2018
Build to Rent housing in the UK appears to be coming of age. The British publics fixation with home ownership is...
