Scottish Church Repairs: Chapels Scotland

Scottish National Gallery Building Renewal

Scottish Church Architecture: seven dilapidated churches across Scotland, each reflecting very individual styles of architecture, are to be repaired thanks to over half a million pound funding package announced today by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

RIAS Certification of Design Scheme Scotland

Minister launches Certification of Design Scheme for Section 6 Domestic. The application by RIAS and BRE to the Scottish Executive to establish a Certification of Design Scheme has received ministerial approval.

Dunfermline Museum Competition, Scotland

Dunfermline Museum Competition design by Malcolm Fraser Architects

Organisers: The Dunfermline Museum and Library Competition was advertised in 2006 and coordinated by the RIAS & Fife Council, site: adj. Dunfermline Abbey & first Carnegie Library, central Dunfermline, west Fife.

Glencoe Visitors Centre, Scotland, Argyll Building

Glencoe Visitors Centre, Scotland

National Trust for Scotland Glencoe Visitor Centre: a pleasant building, subtle in its siting amongst this small patch of woodland at the west end of the famous Glecoe valley, Argyll. This Scottish architecture practice lost its leader in 2012.

Uig Property, New Isle of Skye House

Uig Property Skye house by Dualchas Architects

Uig property, new Isle of Skye House design by Dualchas architects: a challenge to design a two storey modern building on an elevated site in Uig, Skye, which could exploit the views, yet be unobtrusive.

Aqualibrium Campbeltown, Mull of Kintyre Pool

Aqualibrium Campbeltown swimming pool building

Argyll & Bute Council produced a strategic plan for the Kintyre Peninsula which identified the need to regenerate the Campbeltown Town Centre and to attract people to the area, in particular professionals such as doctors and nurses.

RIAS Conference Inverness, Scottish convention

“Invention + Intervention”: A hugely open title which might as well have read ‘Personal sales-pitch’, ‘Free-for- all’ or ‘I am so great’. One could have imagined all the speakers focusing on ‘local materials’ in their work for example.

Forestry Commission Building, Smithton

Forestry Commission Building - Smithton Offices + Workshops

Scottish Forestry Commission Building: Smithton Regional Offices and Workshops, built in 2007, designned by architects Hurd Rolland Partnership with HRI Architects, Inverness.