Scottish Property Awards 2016 winners

Scottish Property Awards 2016 Winners

The best new commercial and public property developments in Scotland have been announced at the Scottish Property Awards celebrated. The awards which recognise commercial and regeneration projects in towns and cities.

Scottish Civic Trust Six Point Action Plan

St Peter's Seminary building, Scotland

The Scottish Civic Trust has produced a Six Point Action Plan for the Next Scottish Government in anticipation of the Holyrood 2016 elections. It was distributed to MSPs and parliamentary candidates last week.

Strachan House in Banchory, Deeside rural property

Strachan House

Design: Moxon Architects. Set in the rolling landscape of Lower Deeside, Strachan House is a contemporary family home set into a steep landscape, made up of a series of connected volumes that utilise the banked terrain.

Williams Straw Bale House Keith, Northeast Scotland

Williams Straw Bale House

Design: Edge Architecture. The Williams Straw Bale House and its outbuildings are located on the site of a former croft. The site is bounded by woodland and the client has further engaged in planting native tree species and encouraged natural re-growth.

RIAS Festival of Architecture: Bread and Circuses

Alan Dunlop

Article by Professor Alan Dunlop. Architects’ Journal: “The RIAS needs to tackle the toughest issues facing the profession rather than focus on easy-win, media-friendly initiatives”

Scottish church lottery funding news

St Michael's Inveresk

Seven distinguished churches and a cathedral are to have urgent and essential repairs carried out thanks to a funding package announced today (Thursday 17 December) by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and Historic Environment Scotland (HES).

Top 100 Scottish Buildings, RIAS best architecture list

High Sunderland house Scotland

Top 100 Scottish Buildings: RIAS Best Architecture List from the last century: the public can vote for their favourite building as part of the Festival of Architecture, the cornerstone of Scotland’s Year of Innovation, Architecture and Design.

The Mill, Scottish Borders House

The Mill, Scottish Borders House

The Mill, Scottish Borders by WT Architecture – shortlisted for the RIBA House of the Year

Borders Steading is collection of disused farm buildings that nestles into a steep hill overlooking a valley in the Scottish Borders. The mill building was converted into modern, rural holiday home that retained much of its historic character.

Murphy House Hart Street Edinburgh property

Murphy House

The AJ declare this as their house of the year. The building is a very rare example of the construction of a contemporary property within the World Heritage Site of the New Town of Edinburgh

West Burn Lane St Andrews homes, Fife housing

West Burn Lane

Design: Sutherland Hussey Harris: West Burn Lane is a private development of 14 housing units in the centre of St Andrews. It occupies a narrow plot, delineated by the medieval stone rigg walls that extend perpendicular to the main streets and consists of 6 town houses and 8 flats organised around a series of private and public court yards.