Aloft Hotel Aberdeen AECC: conference centre

Aloft Hotel Aberdeen AECC building design

Work has now started on a new Aloft hotel on the site of the new £333m exhibition and conference centre building (AECC) in Aberdeen. It will be the first Aloft hotel in Scotland. The architect is Cooper Cromar,

Glen O’Dee Sanatorium Banchory hospital

Glen O’Dee Hospital Banchory

A derelict sanatorium that featured on the BBC’s Restoration programme has been destroyed by what is being treated as a deliberate fire. Crews were called to the empty Glen O’Dee, built in Banchory in 1900, shortly before midnight.

Marischal Square Broad Street Aberdeen

Broad Street Aberdeen

Approval for the transformation of Broad Street into a ‘pedestrian priority’ route. This will see a number of streetscape improvements at the £107m office, hotel and retail development in Aberdeen city centre.

Aberdeen Music Hall building redevelopment

Aberdeen Music Hall Building interior

Design: BDP, Architects. The opening of Aberdeen’s renewed Music Hall has been delayed until Autumn 2018. The 194-year-old building will be handed over to Kier Construction in October.

AECC Aberdeen Exhibition & Conference Centre

AECC in Aberdeen Conference Centre building design

Architects: Keppie Design. P&J Live, £333m exhibition and conference centre building starts on site. The low-lying angular building will quadruple exhibition space and more than double the seating capacity, plus add a 200-bed hotel and energy centre.

Chapelton Aberdeenshire Town homes

Chapelton New Town

Design: Andres Duany of Duany Plater-Zyberk. A group of Japanese house building professionals visit Scotland’s largest planned new town as part of sustainable communities within Europe study. The 8,000 home £2bn development will sit on 2,000 acres of Aberdeenshire farmland.

Union Terrace Gardens Aberdeen designs

Union Terrace Gardens Aberdeen park

After huge controversy back in 2012, the city council is taking the plunge again! Architects invited to draw up a design and delivery plan for enhancing the city’s Victorian park in the Denburn Valley including an amphitheatre to allow year-round events and re-using the historic arches.

Scott Sutherland School of Architecture Show 2016

Scott Sutherland School of Architecture End of Year Show-2016

“The best elements of architecture, teaching and urban planning on show from the top school in Scotland. Response to place, acknowledgement of the lessons of built heritage, sustainability, authentic consultation and involvement.”

Union Square Aberdeen shops, stores

Union Square Aberdeen

Design: Benoy, Architects. 15 storey hotel tower plans part of a £200m expansion of Aberdeen’s Union Square shopping mall on behalf of Hammerson: an application for planning in principle for a new hotel and expanded retail, cinema and multi-storey car park.

Aberdeen Airport Terminal Expansion

Aberdeen Airport New Terminal

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon MSP visited Aberdeen International Airport on Monday to unveil details of what will be the single largest investment in the airport since the current terminal opened its doors in 1977.

Trump Golf Resort Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Trump Golf Resort Aberdeenshire

Trump Golf Resort Aberdeenshire Hotel Extension, Scotland – plans approved to extend a boutique hotel at the heart of Donald Trump’s Aberdeenshire golf course. Aberdeenshire Council and the Trump Organisation have reached an agreement over plans to expand MacLeod House – the centrepiece of Donal Trump’s golf resort at Menie, near Balmedie.

Marischal College Aberdeen Council HQ

Marischal College Aberdeen building facade

New photos of Marischal College in Aberdeen, one of the largest, and finest, granite buildings in the world, restored to the ‘Silver City’s’ skyline once again, after a major £40m redevelopment by Holmes Architects.

Robert Gordon University Aberdeen, Garthdee

Robert Gordon University Garthdee Campus

Design: BDP, Architects. Redevelopment of the Garthdee Campus set in 120 acres of mature landscaped site bisected by the River Dee. The initial development within the masterplan is a new building for the schools of pharmacy and life sciences, engineering and computing.