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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...

Since last week’s musings on the proposed Tayside shop and caff for the V & A, the Scottish Government has announced its budget for the coming year and with it the latest freezing of council tax...

Hey-ho, what a week and a half it’s been in the usually less than dizzying world of Scottish architecture. Often things trundle along for weeks without much going on then – wham – umpteen...

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...

Time was when summer was the silly season for newspaper stories: you could go on holiday secure in the knowledge that not much would happen in your absence and anything that did occur would be so...

In the ‘you couldn’t make it up’ department this week must stand RMJM boss Peter Morrison and his chum, Sir Fred Goodwin. As chronicled in the Wrap many moons ago, wee Peter’s decision to...

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...

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...

Way, way back in the days when Charlie Gordon’s feathers were fairly puffed-up as leader of the City of Glasgow Council and long before he was comfortably nested on the rear perches of the...

Gardyne’s Land, a complex of five historic buildings restored by Simpson & Brown Architects on Dundee’s High Street and an Integrated Habitat Network Modelling as a Planning Tool have been...

So, the gloves are now off, although not that you’d know it from the craven reporting of the opening of the eight week public consultation on Sir Ian Wood’s megalomaniac scheme for Union...

Hope springs eternal And so it came to pass – and with the Lighthouse’s demise, a flash flood of sentimental pap in the popular press at the loss of this supposed world-class institution....

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,...

Just in case readers of last week’s Wrap are in any doubt, the picture of the goofy looking guy in the checkerboard suit posing in front of some Doric columns wasn’t me – Piers Gough received...

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,...

Sometimes conventions can be a bit too conventional The Caird Hall in Dundee on a cold, wet day (in May!) is not something to cheer the heart, especially when its capacious interior is only...

Thinking out of the box, or just out of the box? Like buses, you can go a long time without seeing anything in the Scotsman that is even vaguely about architecture and then – lo – two...

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...

Waterfront woes The development of the capital’s coastline took another significant step backwards this past week when news emerged that Waterfront Edinburgh, the private company formed by...

The Scottish Design Awards 2007 were held last Friday at the Crowne Plaza in Glasgow. See full architecture results and images here. Glasgow’s Gareth Hoskins Architects came out top...

Nominations for the Scottish Design Awards 2007 were announced yesterday at the launch of an exhibition showcasing the nominations, held at The Arches. The exhibition runs from 5th-10th April....

The Association of Women in Property’s central Scotland branch is holding its annual dinner in Glasgow’s Radisson Hotel on Friday 18th February. Broadcaster Lesley Riddoch will be the guest...

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...

3XN, the Danish architecture firm currently employed to design the Museum of Liverpool, has pulled out of the shortlist for Peacock Visual Arts in Aberdeen. The Danish firm had been chosen...

At the end of last year, Clydebank Rebuilt launched an open competition for the design of a new canopy for the pedestrian bridge across the Forth & Clyde Canal within Clydebank town centre. This...

Alliance Trust has been given a £1.95 million grant from the Scottish Executive to build new headquarters in Dundee, creating 160 jobs over the next three years. The company is to build the...

The Parr Partnership has applied for planning permission for two significant expansions to Dundee’s City Quay. Southern Wharf will see 252 flats and townhouses built on land currently occupied...

Dundee Institute of Architects (DIA) has replaced its single award with eight category awards. Nicoll Russell picked up awards for a dance studio and Dundee’s bus stops. Walker Architecture and...

Royal Mail has launched six British buildings on a new set of special stamps. The stamps feature two Scottish projects; Dundee\'s Maggie\'s Centre on the 42p stamp and An Turas by Sutherland Hussey...

Reiach and Hall has won the competition to design Dundee Council’s new £20 million offices on North Lindsay Street at the back of the Overgate Centre. Reiach and Hall’s scheme was chosen from...

Gordon Brown opened the new Maggie's Centre at Kirkcaldy on Friday amid much media excitement. Brown, who was attending the opening with his wife who is Patron of the Maggie’s charity, said the...

Royal Mail has launched six British buildings on a new set of special stamps. The stamps feature two Scottish projects; Dundee's Maggie's Centre on the 42p stamp and An Turas by Sutherland Hussey...

Reiach and Hall has won the competition to design Dundee Council’s new £20 million offices on North Lindsay Street at the back of the Overgate Centre. Reiach and Hall’s scheme was chosen...