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Cambridge College
Jesus
College Cambridge by Edinburgh's Richard Murphy Architects - 30 Apr
Boilerhouse Flats
Melrose flats in Peter
Womersley building by Edinburgh architects Studio DuB
Haymarket Green
Bennetts Associates’ 40,000 sqft office redevelopment for Duddingston
House Properties gets planning approval. Haymarket Green designed to achieve
BREEAM Excellent rating, located in former 1960's Job Centre at 24-26
Torphichen Street
Swan Bridge
Clydebank
bridge canopy by RMJM - new image
No. 42
Hearts owner Vladimir Romanov puts 42
St Andrew Square up for lease
Donside urban village
Planning approval for largest affordable home development in North East
Scotland at former Donside Paper Mill, Tillydrone, Aberdeen: 25-acre brownfield
site, 278 new homes
Anderston Compulsory Purchase?
Glasgow City Council could use compulsory purchase to progress £40m
regeneration by Sanctuary Scotland HA of Anderston site with 495 houses
Major New Scottish Hospital
New
Southern General Hospital Glasgow - images 230408
Budongo Primate Experience
Alan McAteer
Budongo Trail at Edinburgh
Zoo
Lindifferon Court
Conversion of Category B steading in Fife to form four houses, by
Elizabeth Roxburgh Architects
New Council Housing
Deputy First Minister announces Scottish local authorities to receive
£25m package to build new council houses over next three years:
target of 35,000 new houses per year by 2015. Legislation to end the right
to buy for new build social houses due soon
Highland Housing : Fair
Reports suggest the Highland
Housing Fair - investigated by the Scottish Public Service Ombudsman
re possible contravention of local development plan - will be reprieved.
With only 4 months before the launch the organisers, Highland Housing
Alliance, and the 25 architects will need a fair wind
Hearts Stand Stumble
Update due 22 April on slow progress of land deals to facilitate new Hearts
FC stand
Richard Murphy in Essex
Housing Feature in BD praises Richard
Murphy Architects’ sensitive housing at New Hall in Harlow, influenced
by Peter Aldington’s courtyard home and Jørn Utzon’s
Fredensborg housing
Triple Kirks News
Stewart Milne Developments acquires derelict Triple Kirks in Aberdeen
‘It’s the Economy Stupid’
Improved demand in Edinburgh
office market has been accompanied by reduction in supply according
to property agents Cushman & Wakefield. Take up in the first quarter
of 2008 is over 200,000 sqft with 700,000 sqft. Headline rents due to
increase to £30/sqft in 2008. Four major Grade A developments -
The Cube, Exchange Place, Quartermile 6 & Westport – only scheduled
for completion in 2009
Venice Result
Venice
Architecture Biennale Exhibition Result - due 21 Apr
New HQ for SNP?
The Scottish National Party and News International, publishers of The
Sun, are both vying to take space at Gordon
Lamb House, by 3DReid
Oslo Opera House
Snøhetta
How the Norwegians deal with their capital's docklands - Snøhetta
building
Design At The Heart Of House Building
Culture Minister, Linda Fabiani launched the report, Design At The Heart
Of House Building, as a starting point for architects, developers and
local authorities to work together to deliver higher quality, design-led,
sustainable housing and communities - a key ambition of the Scottish Government.
Ms Fabiani stressed how the government is striving to be more 'user friendly'
to developers and others involved in the building process, citing the
move to bring architecture policy, building standards and planning together
in a new Directorate for the Built Environment.
Design Tsar
Prospect magazine’s special edition is out, with the Design Champion
explaining his initiatives for Edinburgh
Edinburgh University Tender
Waddington Complex - £8.3m phase 2 appointment of a design team,
submissions by May 12: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/edinburghuni
Scottish Huf Haus
Macfarlane Homes launch first Huf Haus development in Scotland at Rutherford
Gardens, West Linton. Two Huf Hauses and a pair of Huf extensions will
complement the restored Rutherford House
gm+ad
New Edinburgh building by gm+ad architects : Potterrow
Student Apartments
GSA Honour Andy + Isi
Andy MacMillan and Isi Metzstein to be awarded honorary degrees by the
University of Glasgow on behalf of The Glasgow
School of Art
Shortlisted
RIBA
Awards shortlist for Scotland 2008 - 6 out of 8 in Glasgow, 0 in Edinburgh:
BBC Scotland at Pacific Quay, Glasgow
Castlemilk Stables, Glasgow
Culloden Battlefield Visitor Centre, Culloden Moor
G20 (phase1), 51-353 Glasgow Harbour Terraces
Hazlewood School, Glasgow
Lochside View, Cumbernauld Road, Glasgow
New Arts Faculty Building for the University of St Andrews
Piers Arts Centre, Victoria Street, Stromness
Todlaw Supported Housing, Duns, Scottish Borders
St Aloysius Residence and Spirituality Centre, 70 Hill Street, Glasgow
Prospect magazine
Special edition outlining Terry Farrell's Edinburgh challenge, out 14
Apr. Meanwhile, Editor Penny Lewis is leaving the publication to teach
architecture at RGU
Farrell: Edinburgh Underground Cinema
Sir Terry Farrell proposes £20m underground
Filmhouse in Festival Square, accessed via a Louvre-style entry
Mull Theatre
Progress photographs of CiAO’s new Mull
Theatre
Scottish Castles
Photos added : Scottish
Castles - Dunstaffnage
Castle + Kilchurn
Castle
Scottish Home Awards
Award News : Results
More Microgeneration Money
Scotland to triple its budget for microgeneration projects to £13.5m
a year. In a separate development, there’s a new UK-wide pot of Lottery
funding for Low Carbon Buildings – up to £2500 for a domestic
application: Sustainable
Architecture News
Scottish Design Awards
Nominations for architectural categories of Scottish
Design Awards 2008
Bush Building
The University of Edinburgh is planning a £58.5m building as part
of a £100m investment in the Roslin Institute. The Roslin Institute
will join the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies within the University's
College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine. The institute will move to
the new building next to the new Vet School development at Easter Bush,
Midlothian, planned for completion in 2010.
Helensburgh Student Competition
RIAS
Competition : winner, 9 Apr
Thatched House
Unusual & luxurious East
Lothian House nr Pencaitland
Usher Hall News
Despite ongoing delays to the extension & redevelopment project CEC’s
Deputy Leader Steve Cardownie confirmed the Usher
Hall will be available at full capacity for the Edinburgh Festival.
Due to complete this October
Dawyck Botanic Gardens
Simpson & Brown's visitor centre, Peeblesshire, to open 16 April
Lerwick Cinema + Music Venue
Shetland
arts venue by Glasgow's Gareth Hoskins Architects receives £2.1m
from SAC Capital Lottery Fund, kickstarting the project 2 years after
the competition win
Cityscapers
Exhibition of propositions for central belt - Edinburgh
Events
Easter Road Fire
Photos by Frazer Hay, linked below:
50 firefighters tackled Albion Place fire (Bellway Homes construction
site) as Hibs played St Mirren next door, Albion Gardens residents evacuated
as 60ft crane became unstable
St Andrew Square
Famous New Town square goes public at last: St
Andrew Square
Craigmillar
Photos of the demise of the old Craigmillar
Budongo Trail
Edinburgh Zoo Primate
enclosure by Cooper Cromar Architects complete
JUMP
Leith Docks Masterplan
- AiA News
David Hume's Mausoleum
Proposals by Simpson & Brown for David
Hume's Mausoleum
George IV Hotel
Progress shots of Allan Murray Architects' George
IV Bridge building
Sixth Form College
Newcastle
College by Edinburgh architects RMJM
Greenlaw Town Hall
Berwickshire building that lost out in the BBC Restoration programme finally
gets a grant, £500k from Historic Scotland's Building Repair Grant
Scheme
Paisley Museum
Renfrewshire Council pre-feasibility study by Page/Park architects - theatre
in redeveloped museum
Informatics Building
Latest Potterrow
images : Bennetts Associates
RMJM Again
Peter Morrison speaks out again, criticising the cult of the “starchitect”
for diminishing the role of architects
Strathclyde Faculty
£60m Faculty of Education building proposed by Strathclyde University
on George Street and will see the Faculty relocate from Jordanhill to
unite the University on one campus. Other new buildings incl. an Institute
for Pharmacy & Biomedical Sciences and a Sports & Health Centre
PMP Inverness
PMP Architecture is opening an office in Inverness
Domestic Wind Turbines Axed
Planning relaxations will come into force from 6 Apr: Sustainable
Building News
Acharacle School
Flat-pack 'mass timber' Ardnamurchan school by Edinburgh’s Gaia Architects.
The £5.8m ‘airtight’ building’s classrooms have a
heating requirement of just 1 kilowatt
News Highlights from Jan-Mar 2008:
Aberdeenshire
Golf Resort Proposals
Meadowbank Stadium
Scottish
Schools
Scottish
National Portrait Gallery
St James Centre
Tynecastle Stadium
Quartermile Edinburgh
Edinburgh Restaurants
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