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Keppie Design received the BRE Office Building of the Year award for the new £13m Scottish Natural Heritage Headquarters in Inverness: the building achieved a BREEAM score of 84%, confirmed by BRE as the highest score ever achieved by any building in the UK since the system was introduced in 1998.
The Test Of Time will be accessible and engaging and should appeal to anyone interested in their own home, housing design and the history of modern housing.
Interiors Forum Scotland: there is huge gap between how Interior Designers see themselves and how the public see them.
Culture Minister Patricia Ferguson will tomorrow outline the Scottish Executive’s aspirations for the future of the country’s architecture. Ms Ferguson will make her statement as she launches the Executive’s revised architecture policy, at The Lighthouse, Scotland’s Centre for Architecture and Design.
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As part of the Big Move project, council staff will move out of New Viewforth and nearby Drummond House offices in 2013.
Architecture and Design Scotland (A+DS) has teamed up with the Scottish Executive Development Department to drive forward the design agenda with the six (6) Pathfinder Urban Regeneration Companies (URCs).
Internet Villages International plans for the ‘world’s first green-powered Data Farm’ near Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire. The £600m Lockerbie Data Farm, to be built between 2008-10, will provide 3m sqft of data storage, the largest of its kind in the world.
Hamilton building, South Lanarkshire Scotland – Miller Street development, new built environment – contemporary Hamilton architecture, South Lanarkshire buildings, Southwest Scotland
The design for the Maggie’s Centre at Inverness has been developed between Page and Park Architects and Charles Jencks as a harmonious and interconnected meeting of landscape and built form.
This Scottish retail building is located in the heart of the city centre, quite tight to a busy road, would have been surely possible to create some kind of landscape buffer.
Dalquharran Castle Ayrshire designed by Robert Adam, built in the 1790s and extended by others in the early 1880’s. All that remains is the masonry shell, sitting on a hill overlooking the Ayrshire village of Dailly.
Arnie Dunn has always been ambitious but this drive is tempered by a strong belief in the collaborative imperative of architecture. I first meet Arnie back in the late 1980’s when we both worked at Campbell + Arnott Architects.
Inverness Airport Extension: Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd £19.2m expansion proposal to Inverness Airport passenger terminal building. Scheme design up to Stage C completed from Nov 2006 to Jun 2007.
The Twechar Healthy Living & Enterprise Centre is a community run, publicly funded project, recently completed by jmarchitects.
Planning approval has been sought for a large Biomass plant at Muirton Estate, Perthshire, that will provide heat and power to 330 new homes. Woodchip sourced from local sustainable forests and woodchip bi-product will fuel the plant which will maximise the energy efficiency of the housing scheme.
The judging panel met 15 Dec therefore the schemes had to remain anonymous. The panel selected 2 from the 5 and the chosen architects returned to the village to present their schemes in person at a public meeting.