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The two houses at Camustianavaig are sited on a former camping site near Portree on the Isle of Skye, the site has previously been terraced in to flat platforms. The new house works with the “new” topography and beds itself into the step with upper and lower levels.
Gareth Hoskins Architects have won (through Ojeu competitive interview process) the project for a new swimming pool and community facility in Helensburgh, the home of Mackintosh’s Hill House.
A national online database that holds information on and images of more than 280,000 of Scotland’s buildings and built archaeology opens its files today (Tuesday, August 11) so that members of the public can add their own knowledge directly to its archives.
Outline plans have been lodged with Perth and Kinross Council for a National Curling Academy on a near three-acre site in Kinross designed by Archial Architects, one of the largest architectural practices in Scotland and the UK.
The new mart is the single centre of operations for United Auctions’ Perth and Kildean businesses – and their new headquarters.
Craig Amy, a former associate with Richard Murphy Architects, has started his own practice. His first success has come as the winner of Stirling Developments’ competition to design a new house typology for one of the neighbourhoods in their Calderwood Development near East Calder in West Lothian.
Calderwood Design Competition 2009: design housing and/or a mixed-use community building for the first phase of a new development at Calderwood, West Lothian, central Scotland
Architects 3DReid working with Fox Linton Associates have completed the refurbishment of the iconic Turnberry hotel which has re-opened as part of the renowned Starwood Luxury Collection brand.
BDP has beaten off stiff competition to design a new campus for Inverness College. The new campus will provide a high quality learning environment for Inverness College, which is the largest of the colleges in the Highlands and Islands.
This palatial building was built on the site of a hunting seat used by the Scottish kings from the 12th century, though no part of the present building can be dated with certainty before the 15th century.
Scottish Building News Early 2009: best new architecture designs in Scotland – selection of major architectural updates for January through to July, with items arranged chronologically, latest first.
Andy Goldsworthy’s red sandstone arches, stride the wild and unspoilt landscape of the Scottish Southern Uplands, creating a unique sense of place and interpreting a little known area of the country. They offer a dialogue between structure and place and history and the landscape.
Scotland’s first New Energy Homes (NEH), the latest concept in energy efficient construction, have been built in the Highlands. Housing Minister Alex Neil was in Rosshire today to learn more about the methods pioneered by the not-for-profit Highland Housing Alliance.
During the national conference of NHSScotland at the SECC, Dr Kevin Woods, Director General Health and Chief Executive NHSScotland, launched the latest publication developed by Architecture and Design Scotland (A+DS) as part of our work with the Health Directorates.
Archial Architects, one of the largest architecture practices in Scotland and the UK, has secured planning permission for an ambitious and elegant development of 81 apartments to be located alongside Inverness’s historic Caledonian Canal – a main gateway into the Highland Capital.
The new building is situated along the edge of a steep gorge where south light, views and the drama of the location can be maximised. The building is best described as a kind of ‘umbrecula’ – a large timber canopy covering a stepped winter-garden.
Designed by Graeme Hutton, Dean of the Dundee University School of Architecture and the late David Jameson of the University of Dundee and LJRH Chartered Architects.