Saltire Awards 2007, Housing Design Awards
Saltire Awards 2007, Scottish housing prize – winners, architects & buildings – Saltire Society prize, Scottish housing design awards, residential architecture in Scotland: 2007
Scotland architecture designs
Scotland architecture designs and architects
New Scottish architecture projects with Scotland building news and architectural images, plus architects background. Scottish building news from across this country in the north of the United Kingdom (UK).
Achiltibuie Houses, Ross-shire Housing Coigach
Achiltibuie houses: Coigach property, Ross-shire Council Housing, northwest Scotland – Coigach homes photos
Dunfermline Museum Competition, Scotland
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
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, 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.
Harrapool House, Skye Guesthouse Property
Planning restrictions on height meant that this four-bedroom guest house, in Harrapool on the Isle of Skye, had to be kept relatively low, so as not to block neighbours’ views.
Coll Byre, Scotland: Dualchas Building Design
The existing Coll byre was converted and improved for holiday lettings. Part of a phase development, this conversion forms one side of a proposed courtyard of holiday-let buildings.
Aqualibrium Campbeltown, Mull of Kintyre Pool
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.
Dysart Artworks: Fife Coastal Path, Scotland
City Design Co-operative Ltd. is happy to announce that ‘Dysart Artworks’ has won this year’s Scottish Design Awards in the category Landscape Architecture.
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.
Property Executive Awards – Scottish Prize
Scottish Property Awards 2006 Shortlist news, Commercial Development of the Year: 110 St Vincent Street Glasgow, 200 Broomielaw Glasgow, Aurora Glasgow, Sentinel Glasgow
Forestry Commission Building, Smithton
Scottish Forestry Commission Building: Smithton Regional Offices and Workshops, built in 2007, designned by architects Hurd Rolland Partnership with HRI Architects, Inverness.
Glenmore Housing – Cairngorms Building, Scotland
Two timber houses, designed by John Gilbert Architects for Albyn Housing Society Ltd, will provide new homes for key workers.
Sustainable Architecture News Scotland, Policy
Ministerial Launch of Timber Development Programme & “New Timber Architecture in Scotland” Publication by Peter Wilson – Sustainable Timber Architecture News.
Skye House Design, Western Isles Property
The main house is juxtaposed with an organic form which accommodates the main living spaces of the house, this part of the house is of timber construction with a sedum roof, which is appears to emerge out of the ground.
Purchasers Information Pack: Scottish Property
Scottish homebuilder Applecross has become the first developer in Scotland to provide its homebuyers with a Property Log Book which will capture, store and give easy access to all the information they need to know about their property.
Scottish Natural Heritage HQ Inverness
The brief Scottish Natural Heritage required new headquarters to accommodate their relocation to Inverness as part of Scottish Executive decentralisation strategy. The challenge was to design and build a building that could economically meet their highly sustainability-oriented brief.