Inverary Scotland Buildings: Architecture Argyll
Inverary, Scotland – info + photos for architecture, houses, buildings, church, Loch Fyne pictures – Inverary Scotland, property
Scotland architecture designs
Whiteness, Ardersier Masterplan, Moray: Farrells
Highland Council planners approved outline permission for Whiteness Head at Ardersier on the condition that “adequate controls on the marina activity” and access are secured.
Dornoch Project: New Forestry Commission
Dornoch Amphitheatre project that Rural Design have just presented to the Forestry Commission, in competition with locate architects and Neil Sutherland Architects.
Shetland School Building: Mid Yell Junior High
Gareth Hoskins Architects has won an invited competition with Lerwick based architectural practice Peter Johnson Partnership, to design a new £7.25m junior high school for Shetland Islands Council, on the island of Yell.
Scottish Building Regulations: CDM Regs Scotland
Property professionals – architects, developers, contractors, etc. – are being bombarded with new regulations. Consequently there are plenty of CPD’s and lectures (see Events page) to explain this swathe of bureaucratic flux.
Swinton House – Borders Property, Scotland House
This prototypical pair of three bedroom semi-detached houses has been designed and built in Swinton, Berwickshire for Berwickshire Housing Association for rent at an affordable price.
Scottish Brochs: Ancient Architecture in Scotland
Edin’s Hall Broch (also Edinshall Broch; Odin’s Hall Broch) is a 2nd-century broch near Duns in the Borders of Scotland. It is one of very few brochs found in southern Scotland.
Portree Skye Building: Sutherland Hussey
Sutherland Hussey Architects have just completed a feasibility study for a new harbour on the Isle of Skye. The development in Portree includes RNLI launch facilities and visitor centre, a Diaspora museum, RSPB mega hide and a new home for the An Tuireann Arts Centre.
Scottish Buildings: New Architecture in Scotland
These major buildings also online at Scottish Architecture Tour with images + text – new architectural designs in Scotland – property design images & architects – Scottish architecture tour information
Isle of Gigha Houses: Fyne Homes Housing
Fyne Homes, the Housing Association which operates throughout Bute, Cowal, mid Argyll and Kintrye, has recently appointed architects for a new development on the Isle of Gigha. Design quality was high on the agenda for this important site and Fyne Homes engaged RIAS Consultancy from the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland to manage a design competition.
Loch Maree House: Rosshire Property
Rural Design architects, based on the Isle of Skye today revealed images of one of the most striking houses recently planned for the Scottish Highlands. The 500m2 house on the edge of Loch Maree in Rosshire in the Northwest Highlands replaces a former foresters cottage.
Architecture and Design Scotland Staff
Architecture and Design Scotland – A+DS is strengthening its new structure, with a number of staffing appointments: Head of Design Review: Angela Williams, Head of Enabling: Adam Davies, Planner: Eric Dawson, Research + Communications Officer: Maire Cox.
Clydeside Architecture, Glasgow – River Clyde Plan
Glasgow’s entire regeneration of the Clyde has been called into question. Leading architects, in town for the international design event, Archiprix, criticised the council for having ‘no vision’.
Neoclassical Architecture Scotland: Robert Adam
Can neoclassical architecture survive into the 21st century? This site at Leith Docks is perfect for it to prove itself. Barren, wind-battered no-mans land within a post-industrial landscape of northern Europe.
PPP Highland Schools, A+DS – Scottish PPP
Architecture + Design Scotland (A+DS) Chief Executive Sebastian Tombs met representatives of the Highland Council on Monday 25 July to discuss aspects of their PPP2 Schools programme.
Architecture and Design Scotland Review: A+DS
Architecture and Design Scotland Review: A+DS news – Minutes of DR Meeting held at Bakehouse Close, Edinburgh – replacement to RFACs by Scottish Executive.
Architecture and Design Scotland Chief Executive
Raymond Young, the Chair of Architecture and Design Scotland, today announced the appointment of the first Chief Executive of the new public body which is being established as Scotland’s national champion for good architecture and design in the built environment.
RIAS Conference, Aberdeen Convention
After the AGM, and Gordon Murray’s thoughtful introduction, Lewis Macdonald praised Aberdeen, for quite a while (beware politicians, they like the sound of their own voice) and said of the Scottish Parliament, “ambitious design will always cause controversy and debate”. The day’s chairman, the rather demure and not-so-vigourous Jonathan Woolf waved us into the first speaker, the energetic Professor Richard Weston.
