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New Forth Bridge Approval
Forth Bridge
Forth Road Bridge: image © Adrian Welch
MSPs give the new Forth Bridge Replacement their official sanctioning in a vote.
The bridge name choices:
Caledonia Bridge
Firth of Forth Crossing
St Margaret’s Crossing
Queensferry Crossing
Saltire Crossing
More than 27,000 people have so far voted on the 5 choices for the bridge. 23 May

Balerno Eco-homes News
Four eco-homes in Balerno designed by Kenneth Reid Architects have been refused planning. The site for the homes is located in Edinburgh’s green belt and the development included felling a number of mature trees - more on the May news page. 23 May.

Forth Bridge World Heritage bid opens for consultation
Forth Rail Bridge
image © Adrian Welch
The public’s views on the World Heritage nomination of the Forth Rail Bridge is being sought through a 12-week consultation launched today (20 May 2013). The Forth Bridges Forum – which includes a number of local and national organisations – is keen to gather input from individuals and interested parties in support of the iconic railway bridge’s nomination. It also wants to hear people’s views on how the potential social, economic and cultural benefits of World Heritage can be managed in the local and national interest.

Glasgow Architecture Tour
We were delighted to show a group of Dutch architecture students around the city yesterday. Two weeks ago we also showed Finnish visitors around the city - Building Control board members from all over Finland, highlights were the tour around Hillside Primary School and the visit to the Italian Centre.
Glasgow Walking Tours

Edinburgh Building News - news in full from May 2013

World Building News - Current Highlights

SZSE Building, China : OMA - new info + photos. 24 May
Stuttgart 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 News

Edinburgh News - Recent Scottish Developments

Scottish 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
Scottish Eco House
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
Design Museum Holon
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
Chapelton Aberdeenshire
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
EAA Awards 2013 Edinburgh
photo from EAA
EAA Awards 2013 : Edinburgh Architectural Association Awards winners. 29 Apr

Shrub Place News
Shrubhill House
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
South Clerk Street Odeon
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
Haymarket Building Edinburgh
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
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Edinburgh
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
Caltongate site
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
Fort Kinnaird Edinburgh
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
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
Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic
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
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
Nine, The BioQuarter Edinburgh
photo from Scottish Enterprise
Edinburgh Bioquarter
Three new life sciences companies move into leading research centre. 7 Feb

V&A in Dundee
V&A Dundee Kuma
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
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
Craighouse Campus
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
Edinburgh Zoo
photo © Adrian Welch
£750k enclosure for Edinburgh Zoo unveiled. 21 Nov

Bothwell Street Development
Bothwell Street Residential 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
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
Sugarhouse Close Edinburgh
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
Scottish Parliament Building
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

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Recent Edinburgh Building News - Highlights

EICC Extension, by BDP architects - new photos

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Royal Museum of Scotland

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Hotel Missoni Building, Edinburgh



 




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SoCo Edinburgh
SoCo Edinburgh
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Ocean Terminal
Ocean Terminal Leith
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National Museum of Scotland
National Museum of Scotland
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Haymarket Station
Haymarket Station Edinburgh
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Sick Kids Hospital
Sick Kids Edinburgh
photograph © AJW
 
University of Edinburgh LLRC
Noreen and Kenneth Murray Library
image © SW
 
Scottish National Portrait Gallery
National Portrait Gallery Edinburgh
photo © NGS, photo by Chris Watt
Caledonian Hotel
Caledonian Hilton Hotel
photo © AW

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