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Edinburgh Building NewsScottish Architectural Developments: World Building News - Current HighlightsSZSE Building, China : OMA - new info + photos. 24 MayStuttgart Architecture Tours, Germany : architectural walks by e-architect. 24 May Sir John Soane’s Museum restoration, London : RICS Best Conservation Award. 24 May Aquatics Centre London : Zaha Hadid Architects - temporary wings removed. 23 May Edinburgh Architecture NewsEdinburgh News - Recent Scottish DevelopmentsScottish Home Builder of the Year Mactaggart and Mickel win Home Builder of the Year. Celebrating the success of the home building industry across a range of issues which remain key to the sector’s ongoing drive towards recovery, trade body Homes for Scotland has announced the winners of its 2013 Awards. Now in their 11th year, the Awards were focused around four themes of particular importance to the industry’s ability to deliver desperately needed housing across all tenures: people, process, product and partnership - see May news for more details Three Glens Eco House, Dumfries and Galloway, south west Scotland Design: Mark Waghorn Architects  photo from architect Scottish Eco House - 14 May With the building process completed, Three Glens, the ultra modern eco farmhouse is finally a reality. Designed by Mark Waghorn Architects, Three Glens is a 450m2 five-bedroom farmhouse situated on a working farm near the village of Moniaive, South West Scotland. Its owners Mary and Neil Gourlay, are the third generation of the Gourlay family farming in the Cairn Valley. Israeli Architecture  image © DMH Israeli Architectural Design - report e-architect editor Adrian Welch was on an architectural tour of Israel last week. He met architects Souto de Moura, Amnon Rechter, Roger Diener, Zvi Efrat and Israeli President Shimon Peres. Numerous other architectural connections were made. In the last year e-architect have been to visit, photograph and review buildings in Amsterdam, Paris, Hamburg, London and Copenhagen. After Israel our next visit will be to Sicily followed by London and Berlin. Tel Aviv is closer to Edinburgh than one might think. Architects in the city revere Patrick Geddes, and in turn have a soft spot for Edinburgh and Scotland. The idea to establish a cultural center in the city was originally proposed in the Geddes Plan, the first master plan of Tel Aviv planned by Patrick Geddes in the late 1920s. Geddes envisioned a kind of a modern "Acropolis", where the city's main cultural venues would be, now called Habima Square. Glasgow School of Art Extension Glasgow School of Art New Building - 13 May The new Glasgow School of Art, designed by Steven Holl Architects in partnership with JM Architects (Glasgow) and Arup Engineering, celebrated its topping out yesterday. The building stands across from Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s 1909 Glasgow School of Art in complementary contrast, forging a symbiotic relation in which each structure heightens the integral qualities of the other. Edinburgh News - news in full from April 2013 Chapelton News  image of Chapelton Aberdeenshire Town - 30 Apr Aberdeenshire gives green light to Scotland’s largest new town. Outline planning permission granted for 4,045 homes ten miles south of Aberdeen with 8,000 planned in the long-term.£2bn Development will bring 8,000 new jobs to the area with work beginning in Summer 2013. Ambitious plans for Chapelton, Scotland’s largest new town, were given the go-ahead paving the way for work to begin on the first new neighbourhood, ten miles south of Aberdeen. Scottish Planning News Planning Minister Derek Mackay has today proposed a revamp of Scotland's planning system which he said will place more emphasis on jobs and economic benefits to help deliver sustainable economic growth. The third National Planning Framework (NPF3) and draft Scottish Planning Policy (SPP) will influence development plans across Scotland and guide future planning decisions on a range of sectors including transport, energy and infrastructure - more on the April news page. 30 Apr EAA Awards 2013  photo from EAA EAA Awards 2013 : Edinburgh Architectural Association Awards winners. 29 Apr Shrub Place News  image © Adrian Welch Shrub Place Edinburgh This long-running saga takes a new turn: plans have been submitted by architects EMA for the development of this major brownfield site off Leith Walk. Revised proposals will see 160 new homes, a quarter of which will be affordable, by Frasers Hamilton (Shrubhill) Ltd. The site comprises a B-listed former tram depot and its historic sheds could (and should, Ed.) be retained for residential use, along with a pair of chimneys. Interestingly the proposals designed by EMA include the introduction of new colony style/terraced family housing as well as a new pedestrian through route. 15 Apr Former Odeon on South Clerk Street  picture © Make Architects Susan Boyle is due to perform at the refurbished Odeon building under ambitious plans to reopen the mothballed venue for this year’s Edinburgh Festival, reports The Scotsman today. The scheme to transform the site into an entertainment complex showcasing Las Vegas-inspired cabaret acts is being led by SuBo’s brother, Gerry Boyle and will be titled The Instant Arena. 8 Apr Haymarket News  image from architects Haymarket - design by Richard Murphy Architects A controversial development in one of Scotland's prime city centre gap sites is to start this summer after years of protest and delay, reports the BBC today. The £200m business district is to be built on Edinburgh's Haymarket. 3 Apr Edinburgh News - news in full from March 2013 Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art  photo : Allison Architecture Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art - foyer renewal by Allison Architecture Allison Architecture have recently completed the refurbishment of the main foyer space in The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh. Allison Architecture were invited by the Gallery to pitch for the project against two other architects practices and after a three stage pitch were picked to carry out the design for Gallery One. 28 Mar 2013 RIAS Awards Shortlist RIAS Awards - 25 buildings The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) has announced a 25 strong shortlist for its 2013 awards. The judging panel for this year includes RIAS President Elect Iain Connelly FRIAS, Dr Joyce Deans CBE PPRIAS, Lori McElroy MBE, Kathy Li of the Mackintosh School of Architecture and Roger Stephenson OBE, representing the Royal Institute of British Architects. 25 Mar Caltongate News  image © Adrian Welch Caltongate - The developer behind Edinburgh's Caltongate site has been given a three-year extension to its planning approval. Adrian Welch, editor of edinburgharchitecture.co.uk said "Consent should be cancelled. The listed buildings are part of the rich texture of the Old Town which is already wearing very thin in this area. There are always ways to creatively re-use such buildings. Pressure should be placed on the developer to progress this rapidly ahead of the new-build development which clearly needs much more time to consider. It is crucial the council takes a firm lead here and ensure top quality designs by top quality architects. I've said it before but it is worth restating, the North Holyrood masterplan serves as an excellent prototype for this site - a rich matrix of architecture, universally applauded by locals and visitors alike". 21 Mar Fort Kinnaird Multiplex  image by architects Plans for a 1200-seat multiplex at Fort Kinnaird, Edinburgh has been approved. The proposed seven-screen complex - to be run by Odeon on the site of the cinema demolished in 2008 - is forecast to attract 46,000 customers per year. 14 Mar Ratho Development Approval  Ratho Climbing Centre : photo from Moidart Ratho Development A major new country park and more than 100 homes being developed on the site of a derelict quarry near Ratho. The 26-hectare site will reshaped plus new townhouses, apartments and detached homes built. Developer Cala Homes and architects Yeoman McAllister have lodged a planning application notice for the residential development. The development is due to be completed by late 2015. 14 Mar Anne Rowling Centre  image from architect Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic Architectural practice Keppie Design has completed and handed over the new Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic on behalf of the University of Edinburgh and Consort Healthcare. 13 Mar Edinburgh Building News - news in full from February 2013 Housing Development in St Andrews  picture from Sutherland Hussey architects Sutherland Hussey Architects have recently won an architectural competition to design a new housing development in St Andrews for Eastacre Investments. 21 Feb Edinburgh BioQuarter Development News  photo from Scottish Enterprise Edinburgh Bioquarter Three new life sciences companies move into leading research centre. 7 Feb V&A in Dundee  image from architects V&A Dundee £4m in private donations received for the V&A museum in Dundee, which will go towards the project's fundraising target of £45m. 17 Jan House in Cramond  photo : Douglas Gibb Cramond House The site of this house, previously occupied by a 1950’s bungalow, is right on the edge of the Edinburgh urban footprint and hard against the ‘green belt’ with expansive views to the north over open fields to the Forth Estuary. 4 Jan Edinburgh School Building News The City of Edinburgh Council has submitted planning applications for extensions to four of its primary schools using a modular, prefabricated building system. Edinburgh Schools - further information on the above Edinburgh Development News - news in full from November 2012 Revised Craighouse Plan  photo © Adrian Welch Craighouse Campus Updated £90m proposal labelled “diabolical” by campaigners, according to today's Edinburgh Evening News. Scaled-back plans for the former Napier University campus at Craighouse have been submitted to the city council – with the number of homes on the site reduced by almost a quarter. The development will see 153 units built on the site - 64 from the conversion of seven existing A-listed buildings and 89 new-builds. 26 Nov Penguins Enclosure at Edinburgh Zoo  photo © Adrian Welch £750k enclosure for Edinburgh Zoo unveiled. 21 Nov Bothwell Street Development  image from architect Edinburgh Residential Development - design by Oberlanders Architects. The proposal comprises a residential development and urban realm regeneration of a brownfield site within Edinburgh City Centre. The design approach consists of a contemporary interpretation of the traditional tenement form, incorporating concealed parking, highly insulated external envelope and on-site energy generation technologies. 1 Nov House on Ravelston Dykes Road  image from Oberlanders Architects LLP Ravelston Dykes Road House ‘Quaba House’ project by Oberlanders Architects LLP wins Best House in Central Scotland award plus the ‘Best Architecture, Single Residence in the UK’ at the ‘UK Property Awards 2012-2013'. 17 Oct Sugarhouse Close  photo from Oberlanders Architects LLP Sugarhouse Close - Oberlanders are proud to announce Sugarhouse Close (accommodation for 300 students) Design and Build project was successfully completed and handed over on Friday the 1st of September 2012, on programme and in time for the start of the academic year. The site lies in the historic centre of Edinburgh’s Old Town (within the Edinburgh World Heritage Site) with the development reusing all the historical Listed buildings of significance. 9 Oct Fortress Holyrood  image by architects The controversial Scottish Parliament security extension goes on site. There has been a demonstration by architects and reports suggest a visit by Benedetta Tagliabue (of EMBT) might happen. The annexe at the front of the Scottish Parliament building is intended to prevent terrorist attacks by ensuring people go through security screening before entering the parliament building itself - Scottish Parliament security extension. 1 Oct Walking Tour News e-architect have expanded our architecture tours out of Edinburgh and Glasgow in the last few years. In August we have now added tours in Liverpool, Dublin and Cambridge alongside London which is now well established. Links here for Edinburgh Walking Tours and Glasgow Walking Tours Edinburgh Architecture News - news in full from July 2012 
Recent Edinburgh Building News - HighlightsEICC Extension, by BDP architects - new photosCommonwealth Pool reopens following £37m refurbishment. Edinburgh Castle building insulation news Royal Museum of Scotland Zaha Hadid building - Riverside Museum photos Hotel Missoni Building, Edinburgh |
SoCo Edinburgh picture from developers |
Ocean Terminal photo from architects |
National Museum of Scotland photo © Adrian Welch |
Haymarket Station image from previous architects |
Sick Kids Hospital photograph © AJW |
University of Edinburgh LLRC  image © SW |
Scottish National Portrait Gallery photo © NGS, photo by Chris Watt |
Caledonian Hotel photo © AW |
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