RIBA Awards
Debate rumbles on re inclusion of a 'Singing Ringing Tree' in Burnley
but exclusion of Zaha Hadid's first UK building. Gareth Hoskins wins but
shortlisted Richard Murphy and Malcolm Fraser Architects don't make RIBA
Awards short shortlist
Pier Arts Centre Opens
Reaich and Hall Architects’ Stromness
building complete
Advocate’s Close approval
morgan mcdonnell’s development proposal for Advocate’s
Close receives planning
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RIAS departure
Mary Wrenn to leave her post as RIAS
Chief Executive
Greyfriars Approved
Candlemaker Row project
by Gareth Hoskins Architects gains planning
RMJM Hillier
Sir Fraser Morrison to move to New York as chairman & chief exec of
RMJM Hillier
National Portrait Gallery
National Galleries of Scotland inviting tenders until 20 Aug for consultants
incl architect, structural engineer and lighting designer re National
Portrait Gallery Project. Estimated value, excl VAT, £12.5m
Edinburgh Planning News
Assembly St Leith
15 apartments & commercial block at 31 Assembly St by Sutherland Hussey
Architects for The Burrell Company
Full Planning Application Minded to Grant 280607
Granton School
Two-storey primary school + single storey nursery by Anderson Bell Christie
Architects
Approval of Reserved Matters Continued 280607
Napier University
arts facility
New arts facility building by BDP
Full Planning Application Approved 260607
1 - 3 Lauriston Park
Change of use from nursery to hotel by SMC Jenkins + Marr for Lauriston
Hotel
Full Planning Application Minded to Grant 220607
300 Colinton Road
10 ‘green’ cottages & new public toilet in Colinton Village
with demolition of car showroom, garage & public toilet for Eco-Logical
Developments
Full Planning Application Minded to Grant 210607
Palmerston Place hotel
Change of use from 90-person hostel & offices to 35-bed town house
hotel by Planning + Building Design for Whitechester
Full Planning Application Minded to Grant 210607
Telford College Project
Extension & new-build residential + residential conversion of B-listed
building by Comprehensive Design for Miller Homes at Crewe Road North,
Telford College North Campus
Full Planning Application Minded to Grant 210607
St Georges School
For Girls Project
New classroom & office accommodation by Reiach And Hall Architects
Full Planning Application Minded to Grant 180607
Waverley
Station - Refurb
Internal refurbishment with new concourse entrance + replacement signage
by Proteus Architects, London, for Select Service Partner Uk Rail
Listed Building Consent Application Minded to Grant 180607
Gleneagles Hotel Proposal
Ochil unveil golfing hotel, course & resort next door to Gleneagles
Hope Terrace building
Oberlanders Architects gain planning consent for 17 flats in The
Grange
PM Awards – Single Scottish Nomination
Bridge Arts Centre shortlisted for Prime
Minister's Better Public Building Award
Lochend Care Home
Meadowbank project completed by Gareth Hoskins Architects
Craigton Road
Latest gm+ad Glasgow
project
Dublin Meuse
Pair of contemporary New Town mews houses by Michael Laird Architects
for Mactaggart & Mickel win planning approval. Not to be confused
with Dublin Mews houses by Richard Murphy Architects!
Playfair Building Refurb
Royal Terrace Hotel
£5.2m redevelopment of William Playfair building complete
Aberdeen News
Former Richard’s textile factory £50m conversion approved in
principal by Aberdeen City Council + Approval recommended for First Group
HQ: Aberdeen
Building News
Prince's Foundation : Ellon
Prince Charles’s troops have even made it up to a sleepy commuter
town in Aberdeenshire. Ellon is apparently not made of “proper neighbourhoods”.
Comments courtesy of the Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment
chief executive Hank Dittmar, and American architect Ray Gindroz
North British Distillery
Keppie Design submit plans for retail development at Gorgie
Whisky Bond site
Royal Dimbleby
More Carbuncle attacks as David Dimbleby has a bash at that favourite
target the Scottish
Parliament. Apparently it looks to him like a 'spanish airport' (now
who said that previously?). He also mocked it for not looking "Scottish",
easy to say, but David what exactly is an appropriate contemporary Scottish
architectural language and how can you define this?
Honoured Ma'am
Queen’s Birthday Honours to Eleanor McAllister (well done) at clydeside
rebuilt and A+DS Chair Raymond Young
RMJM Hillier
RMJM
merge with USA's 5th largest practice, Hillier of New Jersey. Hillier
Architecture formed in 1966 and have around 350 employees. Most of their
buildings are in the US but they designed the GlaxoSmithKline HQ, just
west of London
Mavisbank jewellery box
Architectural jewellery box inspired by Mavisbank
unveiled by furniture maker David Linley: mostly made from sycamore, with
inlays of holly, boxwood, anegre and Madrona burr, nickel plate
Jenny Dawe Diatribe
First the pre-election statements, then the outbursts, followed by an
aj article and then a letter in the aj from Robert Adam attacking ‘nonsensical
Modernist dogma’. The apparent movement driven by the new political
set-up in Edinburgh development is rather more complicated than the old
context/non-context chestnut. Some may be heartened by the safeguarding
of Meadowbank Stadium and attacks on the Caltongate proposals but others
will worry that major schemes such as the Haymarket Interchange are now
under the spotlight and that could create jitters. Also, with the Sighthill
stadium and a proper velodrome seemingly abandoned can the decrepit Meadowbank
(shorn of various adjacent facilities) really provide an appropriate focus
for track and field in the 21st century?
Cowgate hotel
Designs unveiled for five-storey Holiday Express on Cowgate,
located in front of St Patrick’s Church (above)
Edinburgh Waterfront Symposium
22 Jun : Edinburgh News
Rocks + Centotre Reviews
Latest Edinburgh
Restaurant Reviews
Saltire Society
Scottish Housing Awards - New Deadline: 25 Jun
3Dreid
3D
Architects & Reid
Architecture merged this week to form 3Dreid
SMC Scotland
Various news reports suggesting problems at SMC
Group
Scottish Architects Shortage
Due partly to the London Olympics Scottish around 40% of Scottish architecture
graduates are apparently deserting the country leading to recruitment
problems
Lochend Butterfly
Places for People £70m project at Lochend
Butterfly ready to proceed
Highland Housing Fair
Winning architects – images: Building
News
Glasgow Waterfront
Programme on Monday with Muriel Gray interviewing Alan Dunlop: Glasgow
News
End of Year Shows
This week sees end of year show openings at Glasgow School of Art (Thu/Fri),
Edinburgh College of Art (Thu/Fri) and Napier
University (Wed) to name a few. The Napier show was probably the slickest
architecture degree show I've experienced
Edinburgh Architect missing - update 150607
David Hopps, a self-employed architect from Leith, has apparently died
with his body found in the Water of Leith, in Leith. He had not been seen
since May, following a break-up with his girlfriend, and a campaign was
underway to locate him. Formerly based in London he worked briefly for
Norman Gray & Partners in Edinburgh
Sust Scandinavia
Sust study tour of sustainable design in Denmark, Finland & Sweden,
focused on visit to Finnish Housing Fair at Haameenlinna, Finland
XXIII Ravelston Terrace
First phase apartments selling at former Croythorn House : 23
Ravelston Terrace
Haymarket Images
Haymarket Edinburgh
Meadowbank Stadium: News
Reports suggest Meadowbank
Stadium will be reprieved and adjoining facilties sold off for development.
The Sighthill sports facility proposal looks set to be abandoned
Edinburgh Waterfront Symposium 2007
Relaunched as just one-day event with not such a long list of major names
now: Dennis Crompton, Pete Barbour, Kathryn Findlay, Terry Farrell: Edinburgh
News
Revolution
Two-storey bar, restaurant & nightclub overhauled by KBA: Revolution
Edinburgh
Endangered Scottish Buildings
World Monument Fund list of the 100 most endangered sites for 2008 includes
Mavisbank. It also includes St Peter’s Seminary, Cardross
Highland Housing Fair
Winning architects – full list: Building
News
Malcolm Fraser proposals
Caltongate - images
Dalkeith Townscape Study
Gray Marshall Associates appointed for Dalkeith town centre feasibility
study. Consultation will be part of the Dalkeith Townscape Heritage Initiative
development to improve historic buildings through façade and public
realm improvements
Phoenix Youth Club redevelopment
Phoenix Youth Club on Harrison Place, Merchiston, to be demolished &
replaced by 24 flats for developer EDI
Haymarket Station
Haymarket Redevelopment:
Public exhibition at Haymarket Station
Coalhill Leith
Photos of Leith housing as
it nears completion
Justice Approved in Aberdeen
Richard Murphy Architects gain £60m Justice
Mill Lane planning approval. Richard Murphy Architects also progressing
Murray’s Mills, Manchester for The Burrell Company & Inpartnership
Scottish Building Study
Glencoe
Visitors Centre by Gaia Architects
Dawyck Botanic Gardens
Visitor centre at Dawyck Botanic Gardens, Peebles, Scottish Borders by
Simpson & Brown Architects: planning submitted for Royal Botanic Gardens:
visitor centre, cafe, shop, offices, workshops
Langlands & Bell Workshop
Held at Reiach and Hall’s offices this was a stimulating informal
discussion of Langlands
& Bell’s work. Workshop discussion following showing of films
and interview
Langlands & Bell Lecture
Their work is often architectural with the most architectonic works being
reliefs of building plans ‘ ‘Logoworks’ series - where
the base plane is generally a storey below the surrounding coloured ground.
These are strong pieces which subtly emphasise company’s power, globalization
and branding. The selection of buildings ranged from those with strong
branded plans, eg the BMW Tower in Munich, to those simply with interesting
plans, such as Millbank Penitentiary shaped like a flower or ‘The
Serpent’ housing state on the edge of Paris.
Edinburgh Pecha Kucha
Featured Richard Murphy and Malcolm Fraser, reviews welcome
The Causey
Six Cities Design Festival
Event: Arcade Architects / Shaeron Averbuch 230507
RSA Medal
Graeme Massie Architects awarded the Royal Scottish Academy Medal for
Architecture for Collieston Community Centre proposal
Steven
Holl
Toyo
Ito
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