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Scottish Parliament
HM Queen - Official Opening: 9 Oct 2005
Scottish Parliament
Prestonfield House
Five star hotel named AA Hotel of the Year 5 Oct 2004
Prestonfield House: Exclusive Review images
Awards
Roses Design Awards: 7 Oct, Manchester
Edinburgh Office
Scottish Widows Plc has submitted detailed plans for a £4m office in Edinburgh
Filmhouse Image Set Exclusive
Sean Connery Filmhouse Edinburgh by Richard Murphy Architects
Is it an Egg?
Exclusive images of BDP Architects' new Napier University Building
Forth Road Bridge Canopy
Reiach and Hall Architects' Forth Road Bridge Canopy
Allan Murray Resigns
Murray resigns from CEC design advisor role following disagreement with CEC re Terry Farrell appointment to design the £60m Edinburgh Conference Centre Extension; reportedly replaced by Neil Gillespie of Reiach and Hall architects in late Sep 2004
Doors Open Day News
Doors Open Day
Leith Docks – The Future
Forth Ports Ltd has submitted an outline planning application for a £19.2m
development of 480 flats and offices on Ocean Drive, Leith.
Up to 18,000 new homes - 5,400 family homes and 4,500 affordable properties - could be created at Leith Docks. The proposals are part of a draft framework,
produced by Forth Ports in conjunction with Edinburgh City Council, which
has set out a 15-year vision for Leith Docks.
Also proposed is a new cruise liner terminal, an extension to the Ocean
Terminal shopping centre, a major new civic space around the Imperial Dry
Dock, and a marine windfarm.
Potterrow
by Bennetts Associates, with Reiach and Hall Architects for Edinburgh
University. Images of the new School of Informatics building surface online.....but then are withheld whilst in Planning.
QMUC Delay?
The future of Queen Margaret University College (QMUC) was in the balance
this week as Scottish Ministers considered whether to call in plans for the £50m campus.
Shortlist
Glasgow Transport Museum - 27.08.04
Gap Installation
Edinburgh Science Centre PR from EDI
26.08.04
Royal College
images of Benson + Forsyth Royal College of Surgeons proposals
Skye House
rural design: first completed project
Wooden house skye
Haymarket News
Haymarket gateway scheme gets the green light
Explosion
Last Sunday's controlled explosive demolition of the remaining tall gasholder at Granton: SecondSite's Forthquarter development project at Granton was the 2004 RICS International Regeneration Award winner.
Make
Former Foster & Partners architects - Ken Shuttleworth and John Prevc - have been appointed to create a "bold, imaginative vision" for Edinburgh Waterfront.
The Playfair Project
Two Buildings - One Vision: Weston Link Phase II opens
New Edinburgh Cycling Complex
The Scottish Executive is set to fund a £10m indoor Edinburgh Velodrome
Kirkgate: More Refurbishment
Leith’s historic Kirkgate is set to receive a £457k refurbishment, as part of a £2.65m scheme to regenerate the area
Affordable Homes: £1/2 Billion
A ten year Edinburgh Housing funding package of more than half a billion pounds to help deliver up to 10,000 new affordable homes, modernise existing council
homes and regenerate deprived parts of Edinburgh has been announced.
Morris and Steedman Associates
Corrour Lodge, with Moshe Safdie, Architect
New EAA President
Colin Gilmour of Cairns Ford & Yuill is now EAA President, Irene Barkley sits as Past President; the two Vice Presidents are Moray Royles of CiAO and Ken Lochrie of Baxter Clark & Paul
RIBA Awards Scotland
incl. Maggies Dundee - Frank Gehry with James F Stephen
RIBA Awards Scotland
The architecture jury chaired by John McAslan included Professor Isi Metzstein, Adrian Welch [edinburgharchitecture.co.uk], Keith Brownlie [Wilkinson Eyre], Roddy Langmuir [Edward Cullinan Architects], and Penny Lewis [Prospect].
Granton Strand, Waterfront
For The Places for People Group & The Burrell Company by Reiach and Hall Architects + Elder and Cannon Architects + Ushida Findlay Architects (?)
Centre for Biomedical Research Masterplan
Edinburgh Biomedical School: Little France, Edinburgh, Scotland by Keppie Design, Glasgow
Botanics Gateway
Concept designs for the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh [RBGE] new
visitor Gateway by Edward Cullinan Architects
Scottish Architecture
Scottish Architecture (World of Art Series) launched
Miles Glendinning, Aonghus MacKechnie
Queen's Hall at risk
Multi-million Richard Murphy Architects' upgrade for Queen's Hall shelved
EAA Awards
Both Eva Jiricna & Austin Williams gave speeches at this years EAA Ball
Rhubarb Restaurant, Prestonfield House Hotel
Rhubarb Edinburgh: best dining review so far
Telford Road Exclusive
New social housing development on Telford Road in Granton: planning submission due to be submitted by gm+ad architects.
Centre for Biomedical Research
Work on the £200m Edinburgh Biomedical Research Centre on the outskirts of Edinburgh is due to start early in 2005.
PFI on a roll
The Scottish Executive has advised it aims to build 300 Scottish Schools over the next six years using PFI - almost one primary or secondary school per week between now and 2010.
Elphinstone Place
Cooper Cromar Architects' PR
39 storey, 134m high, Scottish Tower will be 9m higher than Scotland's tallest structure
New Scottish Schools
Clackmannanshire Council's Vision for 21st Century Schools
Gareth Hoskins Architects, Gordon Murray + Alan Dunlop and Richard Murphy Architects
Visually Impaired
Revisions of the Museum of Scotland have been questioned by one of its original architects. The alterations - reportedly made for visually-impaired visitors - were delicately labelled "tacky, crude, cheap and inappropriate" by Peter Wilson, former 'project architect' for the museum.
Edinburgh Mall Plan
CEC officials recommended an application to extend controversial Princes Mall shopping centre be turned down.
13.02.04
Old Town - Allan Murray
Halifax Bank of Scotland plans to redevelop five-storey Scottish Parliament offices - former Lothian Regional Council HQ [Robert Matthew Johnson-Marshall & Partners, 1968] - off the Royal Mile into £7m complex to include four-star hotel, shops, two restaurants & bank branch. Allan Murray Architects to work with developers The Kilmartin Property Group.
CEC HQ
Work on BDP-designed Edinburgh Council Headquarters set to commence by Feb 2004 - £50m office development east of Waverley Station
Fountain to close
Scottish & Newcastle reveal plans to close its flagship 150-year old Fountain Brewery last major industry in Edinburgh's central area
Novotel opens
£18m four-star Novotel Edinburgh, Lauriston Place opens
Design Tsar: Chosen
Terry Farrell began his new role as Edinburgh's "design champion" on 03.02.04 by calling for a rethink of the city's streetscape
20.01.04
Zaha in Kircaldy
Maggies Centre, Fife, by Zaha Hadid: added to Scottish Architecture Tour
Madelvic
The Burrell Company unveils plans for the £14m refit of the Madelvic plant
11.01.04
Quartermile News
Scottish Executive advise no need for Public Enquiry, no conditions
Quartermile received Planning Permission Jul 2003
27.12.03
Maggies, Dundee
Frank Gehry is reported to be looking at another project in the Dundee area.
More images added to the Maggies Dundee page
Riverside, Haddington
Initial public meeting re £1.5m improvements planned for modern housing
The Saltire Society
Saltire Society Housing Design Awards 2003
Edinburgh Park Station
Edinburgh Park Station opens
13.12.03
Telford Deal
Miller has bought three sites totalling 26 acres from Telford College, and hope to build about 800 private & affordable residential units. Telford College is building a £60m campus on a ten-acre site at Granton designed by HOK
Double Helix
Broadway Malyan Bridge
Leith St bridge lifted into position
Netherbow
Malcolm Fraser Architects' £2.5m Scottish Storytelling Centre on site
HBoS - the Mound
Malcolm Fraser Architects announced as architects for the Bank of Scotland refurbishment above the Mound
Scottish Gas
Centrica HQ by Foster & Partners opens in Granton
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