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28 Jan 2015 - No comments
Edinburgh City Council has granted approval to conversion of office accommodation on the city’s Buccleuch Street to be converted into student housing.
Plans drawn up by JM Architects on...
21 Dec 2014 - No comments
Millenium and Copthorne Hotels have lodged plans to expand their George Square address to replace rooms that will be lost as a result of Queen Street Station expansion.
This will see a new...
18 Dec 2014 - No comments
Millenium & Copthorne Hotels have lodged plans, as yet unpublicised, to build a ‘futuristic’ extension to their George Square hotel following the loss of a 1970s built extension to an...
1 Oct 2014 - No comments
Network Rail have published fresh perspectives outlining their latest thinking on a £104m upgrade of Glasgow’s Queen Street Station .
The simplified design introduces £16m of cost savings...
27 Aug 2014 - No comments
A group of over 130 Scottish business leaders have signed, in a personal capacity, a public letter in today’s Scotsman outlining their case against independence.
The group, which includes...
1 Aug 2014 - No comments
The ongoing return of period Georgian properties to residential usage in Glasgow’s Blythswood district is continuing apace with conversion of the B-listed 242 West George Street to form six...
31 Jul 2014 - No comments
The University of Glasgow has drawn up tentative plans for the development of a £16m Imaging Centre for Excellence (ICE) within the new South Glasgow Hospitals campus, one of a number of...
19 Jun 2014 - No comments
The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland has named 13 winners in this year’s RIAS Awards, chosen from 27 short-listed projects .
Winning work ranged in scale from Robin Baker...
23 Jul 2014 - No comments
The Glasgow School of Art has welcomed a £5m donation from the UK government to enable it to progress plans for a £20m graduate and research centre at its Garnethill campus – just weeks after...
28 Jul 2014 - No comments
Page/Park architects have unveiled their completed renovation work at 50 George Square for the University of Edinburgh, part of a listed campus which is regarded as a key example of Scottish...
15 May 2014 - No comments
Plans to redevelop a former WWII listening station in Cupar, Fife, have been announced, outlining how the property could be renovated to form a family home and two separate holiday cottages....
13 Mar 2014 - No comments
The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) has moved to support an initiative by its sister organisation, The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), to condemn the construction...
25 Feb 2014 - No comments
Network Rail has published updated visualisations of a planned £120m redevelopment of Glasgow’s Queen Street Station , ahead of the projects official launch in George Square later today....
6 Dec 2013 - No comments
Chancellor George Osborne has given the government backing to an £11m space technology centre at Edinburgh University, named in honour of Nobel Prize winning physicist Peter Higgs.
The Higgs...
3 Dec 2013 - No comments
The RIAS has fired a fresh salvo in its public spat with the Commission for Ethical Standards in Scottish Public Life , following the publication of figures showing the commission has a clear-up...
18 Nov 2013 - No comments
RIAS have called on the Public Standards Commissioner, Stuart Allen, to re-open an investigation into the bungled George Square competition - after revealing he had failed to interview any of the...
30 Sep 2013 - No comments
Glasgow’s revamped George Square has been opened to the public by the city council, culminating an ignominious renewal process .
The £500k project has seen the reinstatement of two grass...
11 Sep 2013 - No comments
Page\Park’s plans for a £30m redevelopment of Glasgow Caledonian University’s city centre campus have been given the green light from planners, paving the way for expanded teaching, research...
13 Aug 2013 - No comments
Bennetts Associates have been commissioned to undertake a feasibility study for the B listed Edinburgh Central Library.
The Edinburgh institution has been serving the public for over 100 years...
7 Aug 2013 - No comments
The BBC has published details of an upcoming documentary which is set to lift the lid on some of Britain’s most megalomaniacal architectural schemes; including an insane bid to demolish Glasgow,...
17 Jul 2013 - No comments
Construction of BDP’s Innovo has hit a significant milestone with completion of its stone and glass façade of the office building, which will serve as a conduit between renewable energy...
3 Jul 2013 - No comments
Lewis & Hickey have unveiled a £36.6m refurbishment of the University of Edinburgh’s A listed Main Library, heralded as one of the city’s finest modernist buildings and part of a wider...
11 Jun 2013 - No comments
Police Scotland have dropped an investigation into Glasgow City Council leader George Matheson’s handling of a botched £15m competition to redesign George Square after finding no evidence of...
24 May 2013 - No comments
The latest Paper Salon, a forum for young architects to come together to explore experimental architecture, has been staged in London drawing talent from around the UK to focus on the housing...
21 May 2013 - No comments
Glasgow Caledonian University has lodged a planning application for a £30m redevelopment of its Cowcaddens campus, part of a wider estate masterplan .
Dubbed ‘Heart of the Campus’ the...
22 Apr 2013 - No comments
A bout of infighting within Glasgow City Council has reignited the George Square debate after the city’s own chief architect, Kerr Robertson, broke his silence on the issue to allege improper...
18 Mar 2013 - No comments
Glasgow City Council has released an artist’s impression of its toned down plans for a £15m renovation of the public space in the wake of its abortive design competition – formally ending any...
4 Mar 2013 - No comments
Developers behind long-running proposals to transform Glasgow’s Egyptian Halls into a new hotel have named M Gallery as franchise operator of a 4 star hotel - for which heads of terms have been...
4 Feb 2013 - No comments
John McAslan + Partners, together with their consultant team, have announced that they are to follow up their informal public discussion on the future of George Square last week with a morning...
31 Jan 2013 - No comments
Kevin Shaw, founder of Kevin Shaw Lighting Designers, has hit out at the botched handling of the George Square design contest by Glasgow City Council leader Gordon Matheson.
Shaw, who had...
29 Jan 2013 - No comments
A public exhibition has been held by City of Glasgow College detailing their £228m proposal to consolidate an existing estate of 11 buildings, scattered across eight sites, into a twin campus...
28 Jan 2013 - No comments
Snubbed George Square winner John McAslan has mounted an impassioned pitch to be given the reigns of a redevelopment of the public space, one week after council leader Gordon Matheson opted to...
27 Jan 2013 - No comments
Glasgow City Council leader Gordon Matheson has been accused of tearing up plans to redevelop George Square ‘in a fit of pique’ after his favoured option was passed over by the judging panel,...
24 Jan 2013 - No comments
Council tax payers have forked out at least £86,287 in fees and prize money in an abortive bid to redesign George Square, Glasgow City Council has confirmed - although the true figure is likely to...
24 Jan 2013 - No comments
In the wake of the shambolic George Square design competition a group of young architects have gathered together in order to brainstorm a range of potential alternatives for the contentious squares...
21 Jan 2013 - No comments
Radical plans to reshape Glasgow’s George Square have been scrapped in favour of a simple facelift, scandal hit council leader Gordon Matheson has conceded.
The decision follows the...
22 Jan 2013 - No comments
John McAslan, winner of Glasgow’s George Square competition , has spoken out against the decision to scrap it in an interview on Newsnight Scotland saying: “Our scheme wasn’t radical, it...
18 Jan 2013 - No comments
An announcement on the winner of the contest to redesign George Square is being delayed after the jury was unable to come to a decision.
Panel members have been considering designs from six...
16 Jan 2013 - No comments
As a judging panel prepares to deliver its verdict on six-shortlisted George Square designs Urban Realm publishes the findings of its own poll which aimed to elicit precisely what Glaswegians...
11 Jan 2013 - No comments
An alternate jury chosen to deliver their verdicts on contentious plans to redevelop George Square have aired their opinions ahead of the official announcement set to be taken on 18 January....
10 Jan 2013 - No comments
Plans to construct a twin hotel development at Aberdeen’s ABZ Business Park have been submitted to Aberdeen City Council by ABZ Development Ltd.
Designed by Archial the £25m scheme entails...
10 Jan 2013 - No comments
A square off amongst six teams aiming to transform Glasgow’s premiere civic space is gathering a head of steam as the public debate over the merits (or lack thereof) amongst the six shortlisted...
9 Jan 2013 - No comments
An exhibition of six shortlisted schemes ,drawn from an international design competition to re-imagine George Square, has opened to the public at the Lighthouse.
A judging panel comprising...
9 Jan 2013 - No comments
Six shortlisted designs in an international design competition to redevelop George Square have been revealed ahead of an announcement of the winner on 18 January.
The six shortlisted teams...
8 Jan 2013 - No comments
Ahead of the expected unveiling of six shortlisted schemes to refurbish Glasgow’s George Square tomorrow one local practice has come forward with ideas of their own to remodel the City Chambers...
13 Dec 2012 - No comments
A scheme to build a £150m waste to energy plant in Glasgow has cleared a major hurdle after councillors voted to award planning permission.
The Clyde Energy Centre will be situated on the...
4 Dec 2012 - No comments
Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne has heeded calls to migrate spending from current to capital expenditure in a bid to stimulate the economy through increased funding for repair,...
29 Nov 2012 - No comments
With 2012 drawing to a close Urban Realm has published a study of 77 of the best examples of new architecture to emerge in Scotland over the past twelve months.
This year we had over 128...
27 Nov 2012 - No comments
The streets of Glasgow have been transposed with their Philadelphian equivalents to create an unreal cinematic hodge-podge of both, serving as backdrop to a zombie apocalypse.
Glasgow, which...
26 Nov 2012 - No comments
Morris & Spottiswood, the property fit-out and maintenance firm, has opened a new self-delivered £2m office in Warrington to augment its existing offices in Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Garrett...
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