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Princes Street Gardens : Winter Wonderland

Robertson Group HQ

Stirling Offices by Michael Laird Architects

Ravenscraig Sports Centre
Sports facility at former Ravenscraig steelworks site approved by North Lanarkshire Council

Cromarty East Church
Former BBC Restoration Village finalist to get £641k Heritage Lottery Fund grant. £1.2m restoration of Cromarty East Church, on the Black Isle, to start spring 2008

Forth Crossing
Forth Replacement to be cable-stayed bridge upstream of existing road bridge. Arup in control with help from danish architects Dissing + Weitling

Edinburgh sports facilities
Report recommends sale options of land at Meadowbank. Finance raised from a sale could fund Commonwealth Pool project shortfall plus new facilities at Meadowbank

RIAS News
Neil Baxter appointed RIAS Secretary

Silverhills Housing

Photo: Keith Hunter
Scottish Housing, Roseneath by anderson bell christie

The Garrison

Refurbished by Edinburgh architects Lee Boyd in Ayrshire: Garrison House

Up from 22
Stunning performance by Edinburgh-headquartered architects RMJM as they climb from 22nd to 8th in BD’s Largest 100 World Practices (mostly due to merging with Hillier). This year’s biggest architect’s office (people, not sqft!) is Gensler from the USA, who despite making the original proposals at Caltongate are yet to get built in Scotland

New Director of City Development
Dave Anderson, SEEL’s Senior Director of Operations, to replace Andrew Holmes as Director of City Development at Edinburgh City Council in Spring

Aviemore Resort
Cairngorm National Park Authority planning committee approve multi-million pound ski centre expansion plus 160 new homes & 2 new supermarkets. The Highland Resort Masterplan is backed by Macdonald Hotels, Tulloch Homes & Bank of Scotland

Scottish House
Grand Designs' return visit to Studio KAP's Leijser House

The Hub at Pacific Quay
Cooper Cromar's The Hub building at Pacific Quay

Speirs Locks, Glasgow

Make Architects appointed masterplanners: Speirs Locks

Ravenscraig Start
Work starts on £44m Motherwell College campus at Ravenscraig

National Portrait Gallery Funding
Ministers to provide £5.1m to £17.6m redevelopment of Portrait Gallery

Clyde Gateway URC
Glasgow Council’s Executive Committee approves Urban Regeneration Company establishment to deliver Clyde Gateway business plan

Bellgrove Controversy
The Lighthouse and A&DS condemn Bellgrove Competition result

Scottish Timber
Ministerial Launch of Timber Development Programme & "New Timber Architecture in Scotland" Publication by Peter Wilson - Scottish Architecture News

Sullivan Report Launch
Low Carbon Building Standards Strategy for Scotland: Sullivan Report

Trump Resort
The spectacle continues with Martin Ford, the councillor who sealed the vote against Trumps’ golf resort, being sacked

Stirling Prize Change
Following controversy over 2007 Prize where 4 out of 6 shortlisted weren't in the UK, Stirling Prize 2008 buildings have to be built or designed in UK

Aberdeen Stadium
Site proposed for new £53m Aberdeen stadium

NORD win
Glasgow architects NORD win Urban Splash’s Stoke competition in England

National Showground
BDP, Foster & Partners, HOK + make shortlisted: Scottish National Showground

Data Farm
Internet Villages International plans world's first green-powered Data Farm

Dundee to Build Council Houses
Dundee City Council considering new house building programme. Meanwhile in Edinburgh the depths of the affordable homes problem is visible with over 1000 applicants this week for a single council house

Inverness Theatre
Eden Court Theatre project by Page \ Park complete

A+DS View on Haymarket
More criticism from A+DS of this major Edinburgh development

Aberdeen Library
Schmidt Hammer Lassen’s University of Aberdeen Library approved

Heritage Funding Fear
Possibility of CEC’s conservation grants ceasing from next year due to “the local authority's financial crisis” causes alarm. This includes the £1/2m Edinburgh World Heritage funding. Proposals discussed by councillors 061207

Sighthill Campus
Napier University due to launch consultation on Sighthill Campus redevelopment: new campus for Faculty of Health, Life & Social Sciences

Edinburgh Housing Jump
Edinburgh City Council has announced plans for massive investment in housing across the city: 50% more homes every year, up from around 2000 to 3000. Affordable homes built will rise from 500 to 750 but apparently 12,000 are required in the next 10 years. Public sector land is to be released for new housing, including major sites owned by the local authority and the NHS. The council is to press for more money from the Scottish Government.

Last Resort for Trump?
Rejected resort proposals to be called in by the Scottish Executive 041207. Meanwhile Ian Paisley has encouraged Trump to bring his resort to County Antrim.

Scottish Spa Hotel
Plans by Aurora Hotels for £80m hotel & spa-village, at Glenbervie House Hotel, near Larbert: 200-bed five-star hotel, spa, leisure centre, luxury penthouses & apartments

Edinburgh Architects

Chengdu Museum by Sutherland Hussey

Spence
More words on Basil Spence from a key contemporary scottish architect, this time by Richard Murphy in December’s RIBAJ who praises his exhibition work but notes he “certainly knew how to work the system”

Heritage
Article by Alan Dunlop in AJ of 22Nov re Heritage groups: Edinburgh’s EWH get slated and ICOMOS-UK – “who are these people?” These organisations’ “drive to preserve specific buildings or areas in aspic is insular, self-seeking and regressive”

No to Trump Course
Donald Trump golf resort proposal sensationally knocked into long grass

Bellgrove Competition
Page & Park beat Make, Gareth Hoskins (with Urban Splash) and Elder & Cannon in a competition for Glasgow regeneration project, funded by Scottish government

Scottish Renewables Target Up
New target to generate 50% of Scotland's electricity from renewables by 2020, with interim target of 31% by 2011, set by the Scottish Government: previous target was 40% by 2020



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