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13 May 2013 - No comments
The district of Partick in Glasgow has reinforced its status as a student housing hotspot following the submission of plans by Liverpool based developer Downing for a further 729 units....
14 Feb 2013 - No comments
Work to redevelop Edinburgh’s Deaconess House into 315 student bedrooms has begun with main contractor Graham Construction moving on site of the £14.5m build.
Mace Real Estate are...
6 Feb 2013 - No comments
The University of Glasgow has announced plans to stage a series of drop-in events for staff, students and locals to discuss a long-term vision for the Western Infirmary site , which the University...
21 Jan 2013 - No comments
Nine shortlisted designs produced by pupils at each of East Ayrshire’s secondary schools have been unveiled by Keppie as part of a regional architecture competition.
The schools were...
21 Nov 2012 - No comments
The University of Glasgow has drawn up a £13.4m redevelopment plan for a 1960s University Union extension, present home of the Hive nightclub at the junction of Kelvin Way and Gibson Street....
14 Nov 2012 - No comments
Acclaimed modernist architect John Winter has passed away at the age of 82.
A student of Louis Kahn at Yale Winter worked on a number of seminal residential projects, notably Swain’s Lane at...
23 Oct 2012 - No comments
Fortis Developments Ltd has submitted plans for the conversion of an empty office block on Glasgow’s Jamaica Street to form new student accommodation, signalling the final demise of plans to...
26 Sep 2012 - No comments
Refurbishment work at Edinburgh’s Assembly Rooms , one of the capital’s most historic venues, has been completed.
Designed by LDN Architects, with SES acting as building services...
18 Sep 2012 - No comments
Residents of Glasgow’s salubrious Park conservation area have been hit by a triple whammy of student housing applications which between them could bring 330 student residences to three vacant...
27 Aug 2012 - No comments
A derelict office block in Paisley is in line for refurbishment after FreshStart Living submitted plans for its conversion to new student accommodation with an end value of £7m.
Gilmour...
1 Aug 2012 - No comments
The University of Stirling has got the ball rolling on the largest capital project since its foundation in the late sixties with a ground breaking ceremony at its Stirling campus.
It follows...
16 Jul 2012 - No comments
Miller Construction has won student housing contracts in York and Birmingham to meet continued demand in the fast growing sector.
The York development is valued at £12m and will entail...
6 Jul 2012 - No comments
The winners of the annual Scottish Student Awards for Architecture, organised jointly by A+DS and RIAS, have been unveiled - and the headline winner is Sam Wilson, cover star of the summer edition...
26 Jun 2012 - No comments
Planning permission has been awarded to Alumno Developments for the creation of a 174 bed student residential scheme and ground floor retail on the site of a Comet store on Dumbarton Road....
20 Feb 2012 - No comments
The University of St Andrews has agreed to fund £400k of detailed design work into a full refurbishment of their 1970s student union.
In addition to a much needed revamp of the existing...
6 Jan 2012 - No comments
Dire economic predictions for 2012 belie a surprising amount of construction activity, albeit the bulk of it resulting from public procurement and student housing.
Below we take a wander...
29 Nov 2011 - No comments
Plans to erect a £200m “super campus” on Glasgow’s Cathedral Street have been given the go ahead after full funding was committed - clearing the way for Atkins to begin progressing their...
25 Aug 2011 - No comments
Susan Stephen Architects on behalf of London Cornwall Property Partners have submitted plans for the demolition of a redundant theatre building at Elm Row Pend, Edinburgh, to allow erection of 140...
27 Jul 2011 - No comments
Glasgow Caledonian University has teamed up with INTO, an organisation specialising in selling English language training to overseas students, to propose construction of a £32m academic teaching...
30 May 2011 - No comments
David Porter, the Glasgow School of Art’s longstanding head of Architecture has announced his decision to retire from the post he has held since 2000, just as the school embarks on its most...
7 Apr 2011 - No comments
First phase works on a giant Page/Park masterplanned redevelopment of a former railway goods yard in Glasgow’s east end has topped out.
Collegelands is intended to heal the fractured...
29 Mar 2011 - No comments
Edouardo Souto de Moura, a 58 year old Portugese architect, has emerged as the juries pick for the 2011 Pritzker Architecture Prize.
What is regarded as the architectural world’s biggest...
26 Nov 2010 - No comments
A £150m development by Tesco in Gateshead Town Centre has been approved by planners.
Designed by 3DReid the scheme includes a town square, 45 retail units, offices, a 950 bed student village,...
3 Sep 2010 - No comments
Inehaze has submitted revised plans for their £3.5m student housing development at 134 Renfrew Street, Glasgow, after an earlier scheme was rejected by planners.
Taking its design cue from...
15 Jul 2010 - No comments
A car park which has dominated Gateshead town centre for 40 years will soon be history after supermarket giant Tesco submitted plans to redevelop the site as a mixed use plaza.
Dubbed Trinity...
22 Jun 2010 - No comments
Watkin Jones Group have signed a contractual agreement with Glasgow City Council and Dawn group over provision of 640 student beds in the £200m Collegelands development on Glasgow’s High Street....
6 Jan 2010 - No comments
A cross party group of twenty MPs and peers have called on all parties to commit to cap the UK population at 70 million.
Projections indicate that the number of UK residents could exceed 70m...
27 Aug 2009 - No comments
The seven short listed contenders vying for supremacy in Glasgow School of Art’s campus redevelopment plans have tabled their submissions to a select band of staff, students and alumni of the...
29 Jan 2009 - No comments
Glenrothes has been named the most dismal place in Scotland in the 2009 Carbuncles Awards, beating off stiff competition from Motherwell in Lanarkshire and New Cumnock in Ayrshire.
The...
6 Jan 2009 - No comments
Politicians keen to push energy efficiency have been left as red faced as their offices heat signatures after missing energy efficiency targets.
Newly launched Energy Performance...
22 Dec 2008 - No comments
The Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen has approved a revised estates masterplan from Building Design Partnership, signaling the start of a period of development which will transform the Garthdee...
27 Nov 2008 - No comments
Page \ Park are celebrating a fruitful foray on the awards circuit by accruing a number of accolades for their recent work.
Most significant amongst these was the practice’s Eden Court...
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...
17 Jul 2008 - No comments
Nomad Research Design Consultation (RDC), the Glasgow-based interior design specialist, has announced details of two new contracts with the University of Bristol and Royal Holloway University of...
17 Jul 2008 - No comments
University of Strathclyde Architecture graduate James Tait has won the RIAS Silver medal at the SIX Awards hosted by the Lighthouse-Scotlands National Centre for Architecture and Design. This...
5 Apr 2013 - No comments
Nominations for the Scottish Design Awards 2013 have been announced, comprising 35 projects ranging from a temporary observation platform to a new cinema and music venue in Lerwick.
Spread...
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...
11 Apr 2011 - No comments
Plans to level the last vestiges of pre-war tenement housing stock in Glasgow’s Dalmarnock district have elicited the ire of Malcolm Fraser. Writing in The Herald , Fraser acknowledges that the...
11 Mar 2011 - No comments
Glenn Howells Architects have submitted options for a tower of between 72m and 40m in height at 224 Broad Street, Birmingham.
Proposed by site owners Lee Longlands, the tentative towers final...
31 Jan 2011 - No comments
Strathclyde Homes in partnership with Acanthus Architects have submitted the latest student housing application to land on the desks of Glasgow City Council’s planning department.
The scheme...
22 Nov 2010 - No comments
Oberlanders Architects has secured planning permission for a £15m student hosuing development on behalf Watkin Jones and Son Ltd.
Located in the heart of Edinburgh’s Old Town the 300 bed...
21 Oct 2010 - No comments
A week may be a long time in politics, but it is less than a nano-second in the unwritten history of Scottish architecture. How else to explain the faster-than-light goings-on surrounding...
19 Aug 2010 - No comments
Stride Treglown Architects have secured planning approval for a £13m student residence on behalf of Marcus Worthington Ltd in Preston.
The 13 storey tower is designed to dominate the western...
5 May 2010 - No comments
Planning approval has been granted for the demolition of a Liverpool city centre car park for a £56m mixed use development.
Comprising twin hotels 270 bedrooms and 113 student flats the...
13 Aug 2009 - No comments
A right old Barney
It’s a good few years since one of the doyens of Scottish architecture, Izi Metzstein, came up with the idea of the Macallan Club, a loose grouping of architects who had...
30 May 2009 - No comments
Talk of the credit crunch was suspended recently when the profession gathered to celebrate the best of architecture at the Scottish Design Awards.
From the record breaking slew of entries,...
25 May 2009 - No comments
An annual £500 award for 3rd year students, backed by the Glasgow Institute of Architects and Holmes has been launched, The Holmes Award – 3rd Year Student Best Design 2009.
Open to...
29 Nov 2006 - No comments
Dawn Developments and Glasgow City Council have agreed upon plans for a £150 million strategy to transform the former railway goods yard at the junction of High Street and Duke Street into a...
14 Apr 2009 - No comments
Why bark when you can bite?
Despite City Council protestations to the contrary, it can hardly be a surprise to anyone that things appear to have gone off the boil a bit on Edinburgh’s...
2 Mar 2009 - No comments
Who dares wins
It’s maybe a sign of the times, but too many architects seem to have too much time on their hands. I’m referring to the letters page in this week’s BD in which almost all...
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