Wallace Monument Visitor Centre, Stirling
Lee Boyd Architects have recently completed an extension to the existing visitor facility at the Wallace Monument near Stirling. The building opened to the public on Wednesday 25th March 2009.
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Girvan Community Hospital: Ayrshire Building
The project consists of a new build on a Greenfield site which is a replacement for the existing Davidson Cottage Hospital and Girvan Health Centre. The new building incorporates in-and-out-patient activity (primary and secondary care) as well as General Medical Services.
Kilchurn Castle Scotland: Loch Awe Photos
This is a ruined structure on a rocky peninsula at the northeastern end of Loch Awe, in Argyll and Bute, Scotland.
Viewfield Housing Ayr Building
The ‘L’ shaped site lies between the area of 4 storey flats known locally as White City to the west and an old industrial area on the railway line on the east.
Perth Theatre Building, Scotland
This Arts project aims to renew and enhance the existing Edwardian Theatre in the centre of Perth and was won in competition in September 2008.
Loch Ard Boathouse, Trossachs Property
Sutherland Hussey Architects have recently been awarded planning permission to construct a new boathouse on the shores of Loch Ard near Aberfoyle.
Old Scatness Visitor Centre Shetland building
Following excavation at Old Scatness it is now thought brochs were built much earlier than previously believed and that people lived in the Scatness settlement for around 4,000 years.
Antony Gormley Exposure: Crouching Man
Exposure, a major new work by the British Artist Antony Gormley, being manufactured in East Lothian.
West Lothian Civic Centre Building
The design brief for the new West Lothian Civic Centre required provision of a single building providing accommodation for three distinct partner organisations, serving the communities within West Lothian.
Highlands House: Ross-shire Home, Property
“Winner of the the Scottish Design Awards’ ‘Best Residential Category’ and ‘Northern Exposure’ prize, this large single storey house is located in Ross-Shire. It has been designed to integrate well with the rural vernacular, using the forms of local agricultural buildings.
Gifford Buildings – East Lothian Architecture
The village takes its name from the 13th-century Sir Hugo de Giffard of Yester, whose ancient Scoto-Norman family possessed the baronies of Yester, Morham, and Duncanlaw in Haddingtonshire, and Tayling and Poldame in the counties of Perthshire and Forfar.
Scottish Eco-Town: Cardenden Buildings, Fife
Scotland’s first ‘zero-carbon settlement’ is a 5,000 home eco-town in Cardenden, Fife. Cardenden Eco-town ‘Vision and Delivery Statement’ unveiled by Banks Developments in Edinburgh on 28 Feb, attended by MSPs.
Architecture and Design Scotland – A+DS
anderson bell + christie’s Karen Anderson named as the new chair of Architecture and Design Scotland (A+DS), succeeding Raymond Young on 1 Apr 2010.
Blairgowrie Visitor Centre Building, River Ericht
7N Architects have received detailed planning consent for a new visitor centre in Blairgowrie for the Blairgowrie and Rattray Regeneration Company (BARRC). The new building, which will be built on the remains of a former mill on the banks of the River Ericht.
Scottish Civic Trust Director: John Pelan
Following a national recruitment campaign, the Scottish Civic Trust, one of Scotland’s leading organisations promoting respect and understanding for the built environment, has appointed a new director.
Roseisle Distillery Scotland: Diageo Speyside
New Roseisle distillery in Speyside, near Moray Firth in Northeast Scotland by Austin-Smith:Lord: photos by one of the UK’s leading architectural photographers, Keith Hunter, show complexity and scale of this major building.
An Turas Tiree, Sutherland Hussey Architects
As we neared Tiree’s ferry terminal, An Turas was hard to discern. It was lost amongst the hotchpotch collection of white-walled buildings clustered beyond the pier.