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15 Dec 2005 - No comments
According to the RIBA Competitions office, ZM Architecture came a “very close second” in the controversial competition to design the Kielder Observatory in Northumberland. The prestige...
15 Dec 2005 - No comments
In one stroke, Historic Scotland has listed the largest swathe of post-war architecture in its history and in doing so brought the history of the conservation movement in Edinburgh full circle....
15 Dec 2005 - No comments
The Scottish Executive have finally given the go-ahead for Custom House Quay in Glasgow, after a long process of referral. In August 2005, the proposal was sent to Historic Scotland due to the fact...
15 Dec 2005 - No comments
The owners of the Cameo have not withdrawn their application for planning permission to alter the main auditorium of the Edinburgh cinema. Although a packed public meeting organised by the Save the...
15 Dec 2005 - No comments
He bought it for £5 million in 1999. He was given at least £550,000 in refurbishment and training grants for it in 2000. He made a large amount of money from selling advertising on it. He’s...
15 Dec 2005 - No comments
A team led by Jeremy Till has been chosen to represent the UK at the Venice Biennale in 2006. Till who is Director of Architecture at the School of Architecture at Sheffield University is perhaps...
16 Nov 2005 - No comments
The Guardian called it “Blair’s day of calamity” and his “worst day in politics”. The day afterwards however, Tony Blair was in Manchester to switch on the Co-operative Insurance Society...
16 Nov 2005 - No comments
The master plan for Stockport is still failing to deal with cultural issues. This is the tacit admission of officials, following the latest release of details of the master plan by Stockport...
16 Nov 2005 - No comments
The Allerton Bywater Millennium Community is to become the testing ground for John Prescott’s £60,000 home scheme. The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister announced last month that Barratts will...
16 Nov 2005 - No comments
The developer Andrew Burrell has heavily criticised Waterfront Edinburgh for the low quality of its latest development. Burrell described Waterfront Edinburgh’s own design for Madelvic 8, a...
16 Nov 2005 - No comments
When the Scottish Parliament picked up the Stirling Prize many believed that this was really an opportunity to, in the words of Lord Fraser, ‘draw a line’ under the affair. Reactions to the...
25 Oct 2005 - No comments
Spence Associates, together with engineers Techniker Ltd, have won the competition to design a new vehicular and pedestrian crossing of the River Wear at Sunderland. Spence Associates have won...
25 Oct 2005 - No comments
Edinburgh’s ambitions to create a second New Town through the massive waterfront regeneration programme may be compromised by the approach of some major building companies, according to the man...
25 Oct 2005 - No comments
RIBA North is to close its Newcastle office by the end of the year, making two staff redundant, and creating a new post Head of Strategic Partnerships, in an attempt to the bolster the...
25 Oct 2005 - No comments
The Scottish Executive wants to turn a 15,000sq m factory in Leith, the VA Tech factory, which is owned by Siemens, into a cultural centre. The new centre would house Anthony d’Offay’s...
25 Oct 2005 - No comments
A competition to help turn Bellahouston Park in Glasgow into a sculpture park have been won by architecture practices. Three winning entries by Gross Max, Gareth Hoskins and JM Architects will be...
19 Sep 2005 - No comments
The advisory panel for the Carbuncles Awards has completed its first fact-finding mission, with an extensive trip to towns that have received early nominations. A panel including the art...
19 Sep 2005 - No comments
The following Scottish architects have been shortlisted to design the extension of the Tramway in Glasgow in order to house Scottish Ballet: Malcolm Fraser, Nicol Russell Studios, and Reiach and...
19 Sep 2005 - No comments
The judges for the architecture categories in the Roses Design Awards met in Liverpool last month to assess the work submitted. The judging panel was made up of Belinda Irlam-Mowbray, director of...
19 Sep 2005 - No comments
The Central Promenade, a stretch of coast that represented Britain’s post-war decline, is to be redeveloped. An international design competition has been launched by Urban Splash and Lancaster...
19 Sep 2005 - No comments
Liverpool City Council is to be taken to the High Court over its planning policy. According to Sean O’Sullivan, general manager of Chieftain Developments, Liverpool City Council “didn’t give...
16 Aug 2005 - No comments
The Northwest Development Agency’s own figures told a different story, but data collated by the Department of Trade and Industry for the Northwest Development Agency’s financial year 2004/05...
16 Aug 2005 - No comments
Planners have responded to criticisms of the new Planning White Paper in robust fashion. After leaks from the Executive, Friends of the Earth Scotland have suggested in the national press that the...
16 Aug 2005 - No comments
The line-up for the Scottish Design Show has been firmed up even further with the announcement that Professor Stuart Gulliver, an internationally recognised expert in the regeneration of cities and...
16 Aug 2005 - No comments
Perth and Kinross Council have encouraged developers to come up with plans which will involve the demolition of large parts of the Grade 2 listed Perth City Hall. Three developers, Wharfside,...
16 Aug 2005 - No comments
Under plans being considered by the majority shareholder, Vladimir Romanov, Heart of Midlothian Football Club, may yet move from Tynecastle. Despite winning control of the club on a campaign of...
16 Aug 2005 - No comments
Professor Peter Roberts, the new chairman of the Academy of Sustainable Communities (ASC) wants to see skills for creating sustainable communities appear on the school curriculum. “If you ask a...
16 Aug 2005 - No comments
Nominations for this year’s Roses Design Awards are now closed. As Prospect went to press the architecture judging panel are preparing to meet in Liverpool to review all of the entries, which...
16 Aug 2005 - No comments
The huge blaze at the heart of Ancoats last month has, if anything, accelerated the pace of change in the area rather than slowed it down. Although it took 60 firefighters the whole of the night of...
16 Aug 2005 - No comments
An overwhelming majority of civic and business leaders from the eight core cities believe that the Olympics will have a beneficial financial effect on England’s largest cities after London. In a...
18 Jul 2005 - No comments
A group of farming, artistic and architectural interests is planning to form a Rural Design Forum. This was the major decision made by the Rural Design Conference at the end of June, organised to...
18 Jul 2005 - No comments
Build a new Curry Mile. A stylish shed for every man and every woman who wants one. Buy 50 PA/Lights combos and install them in clubs and bars willing to run weekly gigs for young musicians. Just...
18 Jul 2005 - No comments
With the first stage of the Castleford Project completed, its now possible to get an idea of exactly how the first TV-led regeneration campaign will transform a former mining town. Although the...
18 Jul 2005 - No comments
In what he is describing as a “major challenge to architects” the Edinburgh art impresario, Richard Demarco, is to open an exhibition of his archive in a grain store in an East Lothian farm....
18 Jul 2005 - No comments
By Liam Ross, Archirpix nominee It was last Thursday, standing next to the de-spectacled Donald Dewar, that I realized my career had reached it’s dizzied, perhaps pre-mature, peak. 70 fellow...
18 Jul 2005 - No comments
Councillor Charlie Gordon has responded strongly to criticisms of Clydeside regeneration that arose from the workshops attached to the Archiprix International Award. Craig Dykers, co-designer for...
18 Jul 2005 - No comments
The Charlies Rennie Mackintosh building at the Glasgow School of Art has been earmarked for £7 million worth of funding by the Heritage Lottery Fund. Although it has received a development grant...
15 Jun 2005 - No comments
North Northumbria University’s Architectural Design and Management Programme which was set up in 1997 has been approved by the Architects Registration Board. According to Tony Beacock,...
15 Jun 2005 - No comments
The short-list for the latest project in the regeneration scheme for Castleford – a new library and museum - has been announced. Designs by Bauman Lyons Architects, Feilden Clegg Bradley, Niall...
15 Jun 2005 - No comments
An Edinburgh practice only established last year has won two prestigious place-making competitions. Graeme Massie Architects beat off 93 submissions from around the world in a competition to...
15 Jun 2005 - No comments
A young London-based practice Hakes Associates has won the competition to design a bridge across the cemetery at Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral. Julian Hake’s bridge may combat fears that...
14 Jun 2005 - No comments
Atholl Estates have found a buyer for the Point Hotel and Conference Centre. The company that owns the prestige property has been privately approaching selected buyers, since June 2004 but have...
14 Jun 2005 - No comments
Oldham Council has launched the grandly titled ‘1000 Days’ body in order to realise the Oldham Beyond document launched by URBED (Urban and Economic Development Group), the Manchester-based...
14 Jun 2005 - No comments
Heritage specialists believe that The Church of Scotland are planning to sell between 25 and 50% of its current building stock. “Nearly every community in Scotland will be affected by the next...
14 Jun 2005 - No comments
Shed KM have been asked to develop their ground-breaking terraced house design for Manchester Methodist Housing Group (MMHG). The Liverpool architects scheme follows on from work that they...
14 Jun 2005 - No comments
Brian Stewart, the former chief executive of RMJM, and the man responsible for leading RMJM’s contribution to the Holyrood project, has fallen out with the board of the company and is currently...
14 Jun 2005 - No comments
A TV series to be broadcast by the BBC in September will further fuel debate about the fate of Liverpool’s tenement stock. How To Rescue A House will look at derelict and empty properties around...
17 May 2005 - No comments
The body charged with conserving Liverpool’s heritage of industrial buildings has denied it is influencing the planning process in the city, specifically with regard to tall buildings. John...
17 May 2005 - No comments
In addition to Scottish Ballet and Peacock Visual Arts, four other arts organisations have been granted awards by the Scottish Arts Council to cover the development costs of their capital projects....
17 May 2005 - No comments
A project that will radically alter the appearance of Aberdeen’s old city centre is one of the projects to be awarded Scottish Arts Council National Lottery funding. The Peacock Visual Arts...
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