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.

Skye house design, Western Isles property

Skye House - 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.

Scottish Natural Heritage HQ Inverness: Great Glen House

Scottish Natural Heritage HQ - Great Glen House, 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.

Scottish Natural Heritage Inverness, Scotland office HQ

Scottish Natural Heritage Inverness - Scotland

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.

Scottish Executive Architecture Policy

Star of Caledonia Gretna Gateway Scotland

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.