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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
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morgan mcdonnell’s development proposal for Advocate’s Close receives planning
Edinburgh Architect Jobs
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Winning architects – images: Building News
Glasgow Waterfront
Programme on Monday with Muriel Gray interviewing Alan Dunlop: Glasgow News
End of Year Shows
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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
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Haymarket Edinburgh
Meadowbank Stadium: News
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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