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14 Oct 2009 - No comments
Architecture Scotland can today unveil its nominations for architecture practice of the year, the winner of which is set to be announced at the Roses Design Awards to be held on Oct 23 in November....
13 Oct 2009 - No comments
Disney World is seeking nominations from UK towns, cities and villages to be twinned with the famous Florida resort.
Winner of the competition will be flown Stateside for an official twinning...
24 Aug 2009 - No comments
Land rights present a thorny quagmire for the unwary as any nature lover caught on the wrong side of a “geroff moi larrnd” rollicking will attest.
In attempting to clarify the situation...
31 Jul 2009 - No comments
The latest initiative promoting year of homecoming was launched in Glasgow today, Glasgow –the growth of a city, an audio visual stroll through key events in the foundation of “The second city...
28 Jul 2009 - No comments
Dundee has come a long way from its jute, jam and journalism days, a fact proudly proclaimed by the cities new marketing slogan “One City Many Discoveries” which supplants this traditional...
13 Jul 2009 - No comments
The Doors Open Day line up for 2009 has been unveiled by the Glasgow Building Preservation Trust and, as ever, a range of pursuits, interests, events and walks are being laid on this autumn to...
22 May 2009 - No comments
Redevco and Reiach & Hall have submitted plans to Glasgow City Council for demolition and redevelopment of George House on George Square, Glasgow.
Reiach and Hall's competition winner is a...
7 May 2009 - No comments
Lee Boyd’s St Paul’s & St George’s Church has won building of the year at the Edinburgh Architectural Association Awards 2009.
In their citation judges remarked: “This is an...
1 May 2009 - No comments
The Future Scotland series of debates has kicked off at the Lighthouse with a look at how public spaces shape the built environment and asking what does the future look like?
Interest in...
20 Feb 2009 - No comments
Against a backdrop of dwindling flocks and a secularising society one congregation is daring to buck the trend.
St Paul’s & St George’s Episcopal Church in Edinburgh has an expanding and...
17 Feb 2009 - No comments
Glasgow’s pre-eminent public space, George Square, has long been saddled with questionable design decisions, notably paving with low quality red asphalt and an abortive “Café in the Square”...
5 Jan 2009 - No comments
An abandoned Leeds music hall has hit the right note after a partnership between Building Design Partnership (BDP) and Opera North restored the Victorian venue to full sonic splendour.
The...
16 Dec 2008 - No comments
Doig+Smith have been appointed by The City of Edinburgh Council as quantity surveyors for the £12m refurbishment of the Assembly Rooms, George Street.
The renowned venue, which opened its...
15 Dec 2008 - No comments
Trains could be pulling into St Enoch Station for the fist time since 1966, when the Beaching axe fell upon the gothic barrel vaulted splendour of the Victorian original, according to the Strategic...
12 Dec 2008 - No comments
Restoration work on Blackburn House in West Lothian is now complete. Masterminded by Simpson & Brown Architects the works have transformed the derelict Georgian farmhouse into a centre for the...
4 Dec 2008 - No comments
Against a backdrop of consolidation, entrenchment, lay offs and closure Ryder Architecture are bucking the trend by expanding their Glasgow office.
An additional 100sqm of space is being taken...
21 Oct 2008 - No comments
Edinburgh City Council have responded to objections from a raft of complainants, irked by proposals to redevelop Meadowbank Stadium and Sports Centre.
Plans under consideration include...
6 Oct 2008 - No comments
The Fulbright-Glasgow Urban Lab Distinguished Chair Award will part fund a Chair from academic year 2010/11, supported by the Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow City Council and the Lighthouse.
At...
29 Sep 2008 - No comments
As part of the University of Strathclyde’s £300 million single campus project, the university propose to relocate their present Faculty of education from the Jordanhill campus to a city centre...
11 Sep 2008 - No comments
Aedas Architects have unveiled striking concepts for a duo of talls more akin to the booming economies of the Far and Middle East than musty Tradeston.
A skeletal sail taller than the Kingston...
15 Aug 2008 - No comments
The organising committee for the 2014 Commonwealth Games moved into a new base at Monteith House, George Square, this month.
The project has been managed by Jones Lang LaSalle’s Project and...
29 Jul 2008 - No comments
The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland have recognised Robin Harper MSP and Dame Barbara Kelly CBE as Honorary Fellows, the highest honour that the Incorporation bestows upon those...
20 Jan 2017 - No comments
A brownfield site in Springburn town centre is being targeted by AS Homes for delivery of a £5m development of 40 flats for social rent.
Located on Springburn Way the George Buchanan...
22 May 2015 - No comments
The Scottish Design Awards have been honouring the architectural work to be delivered since 1998 but the 2015 crop of 69 entries prove just how far the profession has come over the intervening...
16 Jul 2008 - No comments
Holmes Partnership are set to deliver 250,000 sq/ft of commercial space for Valad Property Group. The £40 million scheme aims to cement the urban grid at 110 Queen St with 13 floors of stone and...
6 Jun 2008 - No comments
Holmes architects has submitted a full planning application, on behalf of Valad Property Group, for a major commercial mixed-use development on 110 Queen Street, Glasgow. Located in the heart of...
25 Apr 2008 - No comments
Culture Minister Linda Fabiani MSP has set Historic Scotland new targets to deal with 70% of planning applications within 14 days in 2008, rising to 90% in 2009/10, as part of a range of reforms...
25 Mar 2014 - No comments
The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland and the Royal Institute of British Architects have shortlisted 27 schemes to be considered for an award in their 2014 events programme, having...
25 Mar 2013 - No comments
The RIAS has announced the names of 25 projects shortlisted for its 2013 awards programme, the second to be staged under its new structure , following an initial appraisal of entries.
A total...
28 Feb 2013 - No comments
Spurned architect John McAslan, whose competition winning scheme for the redesign of George Square was unceremoniously dumped by Glasgow City Council, has ventured north one last time to pick over...
29 May 2012 - No comments
Edinburgh University’s plans to renovate the 1960s William Robertson Building, George Square, have advanced with the award of a £12m construction contract to Balfour Beatty.
The grade B...
26 May 2012 - No comments
The architects behind the new Hillhead Primary School in Glasgow have won Scotland’s most prestigious design award.
The presentation of the Architecture Grand Prix was made to Glasgow-based...
4 Apr 2012 - No comments
The nominations for the Scottish Design Awards have been announced, spanning graphic design and architecture.
This year’s entries were judged by a panel chaired by Jim Heverin of Zaha Hadid...
17 Oct 2011 - No comments
An unprepossessing Weaver’s Cottage near Selkirk has secured one of the biggest prizes in regional British architecture after being bestowed with the Roses Design Award Chairman’s Award 2011....
5 Aug 2011 - No comments
Finalists for the Roses Design Awards 2011 have been announced – a typically varied which proves that even in the harshest of economic climates, good design can still flourish.
This year...
19 Oct 2007 - No comments
The Roses Design Awards 2007 were held last night at the Hilton in Manchester.
See the full list of results and images here.
Among the winners were:
Architect of the Year -...
20 May 2011 - No comments
Possil Park has today shed its reputation for crime and deprivation after one of Britain’s top planners, Peter Rees, chief planning officer at the City of London, bestowed the run down Glasgow...
17 May 2011 - No comments
GL Hearn and Paul Devine Property Consultants have begun marketing Shepherd Developments redevelopment of 21 West George Street, Glasgow.
Both agents are on the hunt to find anchor tenants to...
28 Mar 2011 - No comments
A full list of nominees for this years Scottish Design Awards have been chosen following a day of deliberation from our judging panel.
Take a gander at the list below and see who is still in...
16 Mar 2011 - No comments
Sheppard Robson Architects are to submit plans for the redevelopment of Dale House, Glasgow, to form a 240 bedroom hotel over eight storeys and ground floor retail.
The existing concrete...
17 Aug 2010 - No comments
Smith Scott Mullan Associates have commenced on George Watson’s Sport Hall, a comprehensive restructuring of the existing sports facilities at George Watson’s College in Edinburgh.
This...
22 Aug 2007 - No comments
The SIX Architecture Awards were presented at Glasgow’s The Lighthouse last Friday.
The annual event judges work by students from Scotland’s six schools of architecture....
8 Aug 2007 - No comments
Following 18 months of negotiations, the Raploch Urban Regeneration Company (URC) and Stirling Council have struck a deal that will see URC take over full ownership of 62 acres of land earmarked...
8 Aug 2007 - No comments
Donald Trump's organisation is reportedly hoping that work will begin on their proposed golf resort as soon as January 2008, according to a company spokesman.
The organisation has been accused...
7 Jun 2007 - No comments
St Peter’s Seminary at Cardross by Gillespie Kidd and Coia and Mavisbank have made it on to the World Monument Fund’s list of the 100 most endangered sites for 2008.
The WMF, which has its...
29 Jun 2010 - No comments
Way back in March I wrote about competing visitor centre projects on the banks of Loch Ness and questioned whether the promoter of an architectural competition for one of them was abusing members...
26 May 2010 - No comments
Following my recent reference to the business ethics of international architectural practice, Broadway Malyan, and the rather less than total loss to the profession its departure from Edinburgh...
11 May 2010 - No comments
Now that our third world electoral system has bumbled its way to the widely anticipated and wholly inconclusive result, attention can once again be focused on the things that actually matter to us...
7 May 2010 - No comments
Wordie Properties have completed the transformation of a Georgian townhouse on Glasgow’s West George Street into office accommodation.
The property now accommodates 8,024sq/ft of modern...
1 Feb 2010 - No comments
Now that the first masts for Edinburgh’s tram system have been planted in Princes Street I can safely say I’ve rarely seen anything cruder, uglier or less appropriate for a World Heritage Site....
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