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Edinburgh Building News Edinburgh News 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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