Edinburgh News - Jan 2012
High Profile New Appointee to RIAS Senior Team
Dr Deborah Mays to take up a senior role at The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland.
RIAS : further information. 31 Jan
Cockburn Association News
The Cockburn Association welcome Euan Leitch as newly appointed Assistant Director.
picture from Weber Shandwick
Cockburn Association : further information incl Spring 2012 Schedule. 31 Jan
Battle of Bannockburn Project News
The Heritage Lottery Fund has announced a £3.9m grant to the proposed Battle of Bannockburn visitor centre to commemorate its 700th anniversary. The design is by Edinburgh architects Reiach and Hall. 31 Jan
Haddington Museum + Library News
photo © Adrian Welch
John Gray Centre : work on this major building restoration + redevelopment project in the town centre nearing completion, scaffold removed and hard landscaping in place - photos added. 30 Jan
NHS Lothian Buildings
NHS Lothian faces a £188m repair bill to fix its ageing buildings, reports the Edinburgh Evening News. The health board owns or leases around 300 properties, many of which are not fit for purpose. The Royal Edinburgh, the city’s psychiatric hospital, is a major source of costs with a range of buildings dating back around 200 years. Buildings include 96 properties owned outright by the health board, 108 leased – including the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary – and 100 GP-owned practices in which NHS Lothian has a “maintenance and legislative compliance role”. 30 Jan
Fife Building Structure
The structural integrity of Madras College Kilrymont Campus has been called into question. The junior campus site has been earmarked for a single-site secondary school in St Andrews. It has emerged that answers to Freedom of Information requests by campaigners opposed to Fife Council’s proposal reveal that the existing building has serious structural failings. The council is at present carrying out a consultation exercise - it ends on February 10 - on its preferred option to remodel and extend the Kilrymont school site. 27 Jan
V&A at Dundee building
Funding News for Kengo Kuma's design for V&A at Dundee + new images. 27 + 26 Jan
Aberdeen Local Development Plan
Proposed Aberdeen Local Development Plan (as Modified 2012) now approved. It represents a significant change in the strategy for growth for Aberdeen. 26 Jan
Ocean Terminal Sale
photo from Conran & Partners
Forth Ports announces the sale of Ocean Terminal shopping centre in Leith. The centre was bought by real estate investor Resolution Property. Forth will work with Resolution to develop the nine-acre Waterfront Plaza site that fronts the Ocean Terminal. 25 Jan
Granton Gasometer Saved
photo © Adrian Welch
The Scottish Government has rejected an appeal by National Grid over their proposal to demolish the B-listed Granton gasholder. The reporter said: “With wit and imagination a restored structure might frame or support a variety of leisure or commercial applications.” 25 Jan
Historic Aberdeen landmark unveiled after major redevelopment
photograph © Keith Hunter
Marischal College in Aberdeen, one of the largest, and finest, granite buildings in the world, has been restored to the ‘Silver City’s’ skyline once again, after a major £40 million redevelopment by Holmes Architects. 24 Jan
Edzell Community
Plans to create a £250m community - including up to 1,000 homes - at the former RAF base at Edzell have been submitted to Aberdeenshire Council. Newesk would be built on a 144-acre site. Carnegie Base Services owns and operates the former airbase. The development would be built over a period of 10 to 15 years. 24 Jan
Forth Rail Bridge Viewing Platform
image © Adrian Welch
Early stage proposal for viewing platform at top of Forth Rail Bridge. 23 Jan
Toast to Isi Metzstein
A "Toast to Isi" took place on 21 Jan at the Bute Hall, Glasgow
Isi Metzstein, 1928-2012
Tributes to Isi online from Richard Murphy, David Page, Alan Dunlop, Archdiocese of Glasgow, RIAS, Robin Webster, Dick Cannon and Penny Lewis. 23 Jan
Edinburgh Council - No New Projects
No new projects will be funded by the city council during the entire term of the next administration - until 2016, with the authority facing a £42.6 m shortfall in its capital budget over the next four years.
Projects that are scheduled to take place in the coming years include:
- replacement Boroughmuir High School
- new James Gillespie’s High
- extension of the EICC
23 Jan
Scottish Parliament Entry
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Security entrance for Scottish Parliament.
Planning application by Lee Boyd approved. 20 Jan
Former Odeon Cinema News
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Proposal by Duddingston House Properties for the conversion of the former Odeon Cinema in Clerk Street, Edinburgh into a 230 bed arts hotel appears to be now abandonded, reports The Scotsman today. 20 Jan
Gillespie’s High School News
£42m Gillespie’s High School school approved - despite householders’ concerns about the “brutal” impact of the new buildings. 20 Jan
RMJM News
RMJM architects : Paul Stallan Resigns. 19 Jan
Low Carbon Building Awards
Low Carbon Building Awards Scotland : the judges will therefore be looking for new and refurbished buildings that not only embody low carbon design principles, but also deliver reduced energy demand and emissions, sustainability and a high quality of occupant experience. 18 Jan
Shipping Container Building
Echoing designs for Leith from a few years ago a proposal for a three-storey office development made from shipping containers has been made. Scottish Enterprise is seeking planning permission for a building at the Seabraes site in Dundee, reports The Courier. The site used to be part of the old railway goods yard. 18 Jan
Cammo Property
A listed former farmhouse on Scotland's buildings-at-risk register is due to be demolished, pending approval from Historic Scotland. The Cammo Home Farm Steading, on the Cammo Estate, is to be sold by the City of Edinburgh Council to Cala Homes, which plans to demolish the vacant C-listed 1908 building and replace it with two new luxury family homes, The Scotsman reports. 18 Jan
Trump Clubhouse Approved
Clubhouse for members and visitors of Donald Trump Golf Resort in Aberdeenshire wins planning approval on 8 to 2 vote. 18 Jan
Trump Hotel Threat
Donald Trump has issued an ultimatum to the Scottish Government by apparently halting work on his golf resort in Aberdeenshire until he gets an undertaking that a planned offshore windfarm will not go ahead, according to today's Scotsman. The proposals were described by George Sorial as an "ugly industrial park". Holyrood now has the difficult task of appearing to decide between two projects which the SNP has championed. 18 Jan
Scottish Borders Buildings
photograph © Adrian Welch
Scottish Borders Buildings - photographs of some key architecture in southern Scotland. 17 Jan
Civic Trust Awards Shortlist News
Civic Trust Awards 2012, UK : Shortlisted Architects + Buildings - images. 17 Jan
Aberdeen City Garden News
image of Team 1 proposal
Aberdeen City Garden competition winner. 16 Jan
Circle Healthcare
image : Nigel Young_Foster + Partners
Circle Healthcare has submitted plans to establish a £30m clinic at the Edmonstone Estate, on the site of a ruined stately home on the southern edge of the city. This private healthcare firm recently opened a clinic in Bath designed by Foster + Partners - Circle Bath. The 80-bed clinic will be its first hospital in Scotland. The site overlooking the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. 16 Jan
Architecture Competition
image from design contest organisers
Architecture Competition, Cambridge, open to Architectural + Landscape practices. 13 Jan
Princes Street Closed
image © Adrian Welch
Princes Street - pedestrianised since November when the tram works were lifted - is set to remain free from traffic after the current tram works are complete as part of new trial into permanent pedestrianisation, report the Edinburgh Evening News. Diverting traffic away from Princes Street was one of the recommendations of a controversial city centre blueprint by Danish-based Gehl Architects: Princes Street. 10 Jan
Caltongate - World Heritage Site Status
image © Adrian Welch
Fears that Edinburgh could lose its World Heritage Site status raise once again, report the Glasgow Herald. The United Nations is poised to "call in" the latest controversial £300m plans for Caltongate - a hotel and conference centre. A South African-led consortium has developed similar plans to those that prompted UNESCO to send the previous developers of the 640,000 sqft site back to the drawing board. 10 Jan
SoCo
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SoCo - Cowgate fire site redevelopment given go-ahead nine years after fire. 9 Jan
Leith Waterworld Closed
This public swimming pool closed yesterday. However campaign group Splashback aim to lodge an official complaint about the way the council has handled the closure. 9 Jan
James Gillespie's High School campus
Petition launched against proposed buildings for James Gillespie's High School's Lauderdale Street campus. Due to be considered by city planners next Wednesday. Revised designs were submitted in December following the initial proposals in August 2011. The £44m “school of the future” will retain the A-listed 16th-century Bruntsfield House as a centrepiece. 9 Jan
Edinburgh University Student Housing
Proposals submitted for redevelopment of Deaconess House, a former Edinburgh hospital, to form new student accommodation for Edinburgh University. Works include refurbishment of the existing Victorian property alongside demolition of various outbuildings to form a new build extension, accommodating 334 single occupancy rooms. The design is by the Kalyvides Partnership for Mace Real Estate. 6 Jan
Baxter's Place - Budget Hotel?
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This A-listed building next to the Playhouse Theatre - once set for redevelopment by Glasgow's gm+ad architects - may now be developed as a budget hotel: Baxter's Place. 3 Jan
YRM sold to RMJM
YRM, a 67-year-old UK architects practice headquartered in London has been sold to RMJM, headquartered in Edinburgh.
YRM specialised in the nuclear and aviation sectors. The major recent building by YRM was Heathrow Airport Terminal 5 with Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners back in 2008. 3 Jan
Architecture of the Year?
Buildings from 2011 : e-architect selection of what we feel were the most interesting buildings + designs covered on our site from the last year. 1 Jan
Edinburgh News - news in full from December 2011
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