Edinburgh News - January 2009: Buildings in Scotland

January 2009

N E W S

Wallace Monument picture from the architect Wallace Monument visitor facility extension : Lee Boyd Architects Mies van der Rohe Awards Scottish Nominees listed at Mies van der Rohe Awards Dovecot Studios picture from the architect Photos of Dovecot Studios : Malcolm Fraser Architects Union Square picture from the architect Aberdeen Shopping Centre : BDP Carbuncles Glenrothes named most dismal place in Scotland in Carbuncles Awards. 290109 Festival Theatre Extension photo © Adrian Welch £2m rehearsal space behind Festival Theatre set for approval. Extenison to be funded by building student flats between new space and South College Street Norton House picture from the architect Norton House Hotel by Fletcher Joseph Ingleby Gallery picture from the architect Helen Lucas Architects' Ingleby Gallery. 280109 Craigmillar Town Centre Approval picture from the architect Approval for PARC's Craigmillar Town Centre Bankton Primary School picture from the architect Bankton Primary School Livingston : Arcade Architects AECC hotel Four-star Radisson Edwardian hotel adj. Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre set to go ahead, due to complete by 2011, but no developer yet named Russell Place picture from the architect Russell Place house : Arcade Architects. 270109 Donald Trump Resort Starts Surveyors have started work at the Balmedie site. The 14th-century Menie House, renamed MacLeod House in honour of Trump’s late mother Mary MacLeod, will become the Trump family residence in Scotland. Refurbishment of the mansion is nearing completion. Clarion picture from the architect Wellington Street office development topped out ceremony: Clarion Wood Group HQ Shelved Aberdeen Evening Express report developer of £60m Wood Group HQ, Miller Cromdale pulled out of the office development Prospect Following two articles about my employment published without my knowledge, and using information from a private phone call to do with attendance at a board meeting, I resigned earlier this week from the Prospect Editorial Board. Later the same day Alan Dunlop also resigned for entirely different reasons, to do with the Carbuncles Awards. Ref. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7854544.stm "Reason: I would like to see Glasgow Harbour in there as a worst planning decision because it is one of the best example of atrocious late 20th century developer led nonsense that you will find - the point being that the Council could and should have insisted on an entirely different structure and content for the development. As it turned out, Clyde port got exactly what they wanted, ably assisted by numerous architects who were happy to take the dosh while the Council did next to nothing except approve the planning application(s). I think having Glasgow Harbour in there sends out a strong message about concern for the urban environment". Willie Miller The Carbuncle Judges are: Chantelle Niblock. Phd Student, Glasgow School of Art Colin McColl: Architect, McColl Architects Esther Weir, Architect, CRGP Gordon Duffy: Architect, Studio Dub Gordon Young: Prospect Magazine John Glenday: Prospect Magazine Karen Moir, Architect, RMJM Neil de Perez: Architect, 3DReid Willie Miller: Urbanist, Willie Miller Urban Design Edinburgh Waterfront Public meeting re Leith Docks applications for first two Villages of nine Scotland’s first ‘A’ Energy Performance Certificates photo : Alan McAteer Scottish Office Buildings by Cooper Cromar Edinburgh Development Discussion on progress and controversy in Edinburgh Developments. 270109 SoCo Approved picture from the architect Unanimous approval for SoCo design by Allan Murray Architects New Edinburgh School photograph : Renzo Mazzolini Glasgow's Page \ Park complete Fettes College Prep School Centre For Health Science photograph © Ewen Weatherspoon Keppie Design's Centre For Health Science Inverness opened by Jim Mather MSP Princes Street Housing Edinburgh World Heritage plans to find ways of bringing empty upper floors back into use, as housing or offices: it hopes to identify a block on Princes Street before the end of 2009 Traditional Building Skills Culture Minister Linda Fabiani today launched a new masonry qualification to meet traditional building training needs in Edinburgh and Lothian. 210109 cre8architecture Design Flood Design Competition : cre8architecture entry SOUTH CITY Symposium Modernist Urbanism in the Southern Hemisphere: Past, Present, Future Organisers: Docomomo / Edinburgh College of Art / University of Edinburgh South City Symposium : 22 - 23 Jan Kolkata Pavilion not to be designed in Scotland Graeme Massie resigns from Kolkata Book Fair Pavilion for Scotland project Skara Brae Protection Protection for Skara Brae. 200109 EICC Expansion EICC underground expansion progressing again with work due to start later in 2009 New Urbanism New Town Will Scotland get its own Poundbury? Planning application for a new town at Tornagrain, between Inverness and Nairn, submitted by Andres Duany, one of the founders of the Congress for New Urbanism Jan Kaplický Former Future Systems architect Jan Kaplický dies Moore Street Moore Street Glasgow : information + images from Richard Murphy Architects Usher Hall Refurb Cost Usher Hall refurbishment cost increase of nearly £5m reported. 150109 Bauhaus in Cumbernauld The Bauhaus School of Architecture & Design, Berlin in Cumbernauld Murray Grigor Film Celebrated Scottish filmmaker Murray Grigor launches World Premiere of John Lautner film : INFINITE SPACE at Palm Springs Film Festival, USA photo of Sean Connery + Murray Grigor Cast includes Sean Connery, Lautner's daughter & Frank Gehry Forth Crossing Design With talks now set for 27 Jan in London to agree New Forth Road Bridge funding, Scottish Secretary Jim Murphy suggests the design should also be on the agenda, according to The Scotsman. Meanwhile, The Sunday Herald reports that PPP would likely increase the cost of the project from £2.3 billion to £4bn, with a toll of...£26. The SNP administration in Edinburgh, which opposes PFI/PPP, wants the UK Treasury to spread project costs over 20 years. Gazprom Tower News Okhta Tower by Edinburgh's RMJM Architects to be fully funded Moore Street Glasgow buildings by four different architects, masterplanned by Edinburgh's Richard Murphy Architects complete : Moore Street Grassmarket Again Finished at Christmas, but now being dug up again: cobbled path to be replaced with Caithness stones to aid wheelchair users, due to complete in two weeks Green Belt Village 170-home private "care village" adjacent to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary set for approval despite objections from local residents and Midlothian Council. The sheltered apartments and health centre would be built in the derelict Edmonstone estate grounds at Little France. 100109 Romanes & Paterson Princes Street B-listed store to reopen on 1st of April after £1m refurbishment following the massive fire in August 2007: Princes Street Edinburgh. 090109 Musselburgh Health Centre jmarchitects proposals for £21m project - more details online soon Council Land Acquisition picture from the architect CEC to buy up reduced cost land from credit-crunch hit developers, principally on the waterfront, to stimulate development and provide land for much-needed affordable homes. 080109 Princes Street Hotel Critics Architecture and Design Scotland criticise SMC Hugh Martin Architects' Princes Street Hotel proposals. 060109 Overgate Extension £50m extension by owner Lend Lease to Dundee's Overgate shopping centre to go ahead despite retail market freefall Fettes College Prep School Page / Park building complete : six classrooms naturally ventilated via roof-mounted windcatchers plus an art studio and library. Fettes College Aberdeen Hotel Union Street Hotel : planning permission gained for Holmes St Paul's & St George's Redevelopment of St Paul's & St George's Church by lee boyd : completed building photographs, 050109 Energy Performance Certificates On the day all large public buildings in Scotland were supposed to display Energy Performance Certificates under EU laws many public buildings failed to get a certificate, and of those that have many are poor. 050109

Caltongate
National Monument
Donaldsons College
The Elements shopping centre



Edinburgh News - Oct 2008

Ocean Terminal Revisions
St James Centre
Hearts Stadium
Quartermile Edinburgh

Scottish Architecture News

Comments / photos for Edinburgh Architecture News page welcome: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Edinburgh Building News Jan 2009 - Building : page - adrian welch / isabelle lomholt