Aberdeen Art Gallery Renewal News
Design: Hoskins Architects
The Aberdeen Art Gallery redevelopment project has been created by award-winning architects from Glasgow. This building has a beautiful, light interior.
Bon Accord Centre: Aberdeen Shopping Mall
Aberdeen Bon Accord Centre extension, undertaken on behalf of The Scottish Retail Property Partnership, 50,000 sq ft of retail space together with some 300 car parking spaces, for this major Northeast Scotland shopping mall.
21st Century City: Scott Sutherland Aberdeen
Unit 2 Scott Sutherland School of Architecture, Scotland
China stands on the brink of another great change in direction and is looking for expertise from overseas for prestige capital projects.
St Nicholas House Aberdeen Council Building
St Nicholas House site news. New plans for a £107m development in Aberdeen city centre unveiled by developers. The designs will replace the former council headquarters with an office, hotel and retail complex known as Marischal Square
Aberdeen Mosque Building
Aberdeen Mosque building, new religious project in Northeast Scotland – design by Makespace Architects, the newest and largest mosque in Aberdeen, the ‘oil capital of Europe’. It received planning permission in September 2013.
Union Terrace Gardens, City Garden Aberdeen
Union Terrace Gardens proposal news – Aberdeen City Centre Proposals, Scotland – Referendum + Designs + Winner: 13 Sep 2016 – LDA Design selected to draw up detailed design proposals.
Union Terrace Gardens Proposals Aberdeen
New Union Terrace Gardens Proposals, a major renovation, unveiled: Architects Halliday Fraser Munro, working with Aberdeen City Council, has come up with a design which would see the gardens partly raised but remain sunken.
Police Scotland Facility Kitty Brewster, Aberdeenshire
Police Scotland Facility at Kitty Brewster, new Aberdeenshire building design by Ryder Architects, £11.2m 4,518 sqm, project progressing towards its planned handover early next year
Peacock Visual Arts: Aberdeen Contemporary Art
Peacock Visual Arts Aberdeen – design by Brisac Gonzalez Architects: controversial gallery scheme for Union Terrace Gardens in Aberdeen – abandoned in 2010 to be replaced by the even more controversial ‘Granite Web’ by Diller Scofidio + Renfro – appears to be back on the cards.
Portsoy Boatbuilding Centre, Aberdeenshire
The Scottish Traditional Boat Festival (STBF) began their process of boat building education in response to a rise in teenage anti-social behaviour in the town of Portsoy, which is long recognised as a centre of maritime culture and history.
Aberdeen University Library Building
Design: Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects – “This is a contemporary international structure within one of Scotland’s most important historic settings. Its internal arrangement cleverly challenges preconceived notions of “the library”.”
Jamie’s Italian Aberdeen Restaurant
The restaurant occupies the first and second floors of the Union Street frontage of the old Esslemont and Macintosh department store. This was a retail landmark in the city and is a listed building.
Chapelton Development, New Town
The developers behind Aberdeenshire’s planned new town, Chapelton, have put sustainability at the top of the agenda with the appointment of advisors focused on finding low-carbon, affordable solutions for the utilities provision for the 8,000 home town.
Archaeolink Oyne Prehistory Park: Edward Cullinan
The Archaeolink Prehistory Park at Oyne opened in 1997 as a trust-run centre. But the council was forced to take control of the prehistory park in 2005 after spending £1.5 m of taxpayers’ money in a bid to keep the centre afloat as its visitor numbers, originally projected at 100,000 a year, plunged to just over 19,000.
Aberdeen Hotels Building News + Developments
We post information on this page re the most interesting new Aberdeen hotels, generally designed by leading Scottish architects. We cover hotels in Northeast Scotland – with images, information about the architects and links to full project descriptions.
Maggie’s Cancer Caring Center Aberdeen: Snohetta
Maggie’s Aberdeen initial design concepts released to coincide with the planning application being submitted to Aberdeen City Council. The council will now spend 8-12 weeks deliberating over the design of the Maggie’s Centre at the Foresterhill site of Aberdeen Royal Infirmary before coming to a decision on granting permission.
University of Aberdeen Library Building
University of Aberdeen Library Opening news: this major scottish building by Danish architects Schmidt Hammer Lassen is now open to students for the new term.
Subsea 7 Campus Development, Westhill, Aberdeen
Designed by Michael Gilmour Associates, the campus development for one of the world’s leading subsea engineering and construction companies, Subsea 7 Westhill is on the outskirts of Aberdeen
Aberdeen City Garden: Union Terrace Gardens
The International Design Competition for the Aberdeen City Garden Project has attracted some of the leading lights of the architectural world. An impressive fifty-five submissions were received by the competition organisers, Malcolm Reading Consultants.
