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Oct 11 strictly by invite only
Introduction by Johnny Rodger
Links by Adrian Welch
Guest Speaker: Murray Grigor

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And the winner is....
Dance Base by Maclolm Fraser Architects
RIAS Awards Best Building in Scotland
27.09.02



Preserve
"The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) is embarking on the second phase of a £1 million project to conserve the original plans for famous buildings by Sir Robert Lorimer and Sidney Mitchell".

Beeb Bridge Bother
Campaigners today launched a fight to stop an £8million road bridge being built across the River Clyde. Scottish Enterprise Glasgow and Glasgow City Council are building the four-lane slanting bridge as a gateway to the multi-million-pound Pacific Quay development. The BBC demanded the building of the bridge as part of its move to new headquarters. But objectors have warned the arched bridge - with a 17ft clearance above the water's highest point - is far too low.
26.09.02

Garments in Tatters
"Flats are to be built on the site of a clothing factory which was closed controversially with the loss of 700 jobs.
Bulldozers have already moved in to demolish the former Claremont Garments plant in Pollokshaws, Glasgow, where Cala Homes are to build 204 flats".
26.09.02

Greek
Two tenements built by famous architect Alexander Thomson's company are undergoing a £1.1m renovation.
Selfridges
Selfridges bosses confirmed it was desperately looking for a site in the city centre - architect Toyo Ito.
20.09.02

Jewitt, Arschavir & Wilkie Architects:
City Centre and Charlotte St. developments

Charlotte St PR


Isokon City Centre PR

Jewitt, Arschavir & Wilkie Architects are also involved in the redevelopment of West Pilton, Edinburgh: currently have a planning application lodged for 219 no. new build flats, houses and maisonettes

Lomond Shores: Jenners
Jenners opened its new store 26 Sep at Lomond Shores, Balloch

Waterloo 2
Gordon Murray + Alan Dunlop Architects Waterloo Street project for clients Kenmore Wellesley House Ltd:
further image (see 23.08.02) of scheme currently being considered by planners

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12.09.02

Riverside Museum
“Glasgow’s new Riverside Museum is to be built between the mouth of the river Kelvin and Yorkhill Quay in the Clyde’s Lower Harbour”. Museum of Transport Glasgow by Zaha Hadid
10.09.02

Mackintosh Saviour
“The news that Glasgow Museums are at last to put on show Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Ingram Street Tea Rooms had a double irony for me… At the time they were the most complete of the Cranston Tea Rooms, as both Argyle Street and Buchanan Street had more or less disappeared and the Willow Tea Rooms was lost in Daly’s department store. But in 1971 they were a very sorry sight... they are to be included in Glasgow Museums’ new plans for a development on the banks of the River Clyde”.
08.09.02

Castlemilk Stable
“A historic stable block in a Glasgow housing scheme will undergo a £3m transformation”.
13.09.02

Harvey Nix: Glasgow?
The head of Harvey Nichols said the company was considering adding another store in Scotland.
06.09.02

Science of Tower Repair
“Repairs to Glasgow Science Centre’s jinxed £10m tower have been delayed for months by a row over faults, keeping it closed since February”.
04.09.02

Events
Network North
“more and more, if you go to exhibitions billed as "the cutting edge" - dreadful phrase - like Greyscale/CMYK at Tramway, you are not presented with any kind of memorable images at all”.
10.09.02

Evergreens & Nevergreens: Arne Jacobsen 100 years
An Exhibition celebrating architect Arne Jacobsen’s 100th birthday at The Lighthouse in Glasgow
Sat 7 Sep - Sun Nov 3
Gallery Four, The Lighthouse, 11 Mitchell Lane
London Awards?
"The Centre for Contemporary Arts in Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, was awarded the Royal Institute of British Architects award in June and is now one of five buildings shortlisted for a second prestigious award".

RIBA Awards
Some of the most exciting new buildings across the length and breadth of
Britain have today been short-listed for the RIBA's six special awards to be
announced at the presentation of The RIBA Stirling Prize in association with
The Architects' Journal in October. The shortlists for the following prizes
have been drawn up from the 58 RIBA Award-winning buildings announced
earlier this year in June.

The Special award categories are:
The AJ First Building Award
The RIBA Client of the Year
The Stephen Lawrence Prize
The ADAPT Trust Access Award
The Crown Estate Conservation Award
RIBA Journal Sustainability Award

The winners of the special awards and The Stirling Prize will be announced
at The Baltic: the centre for contemporary arts, Gateshead, and will be
televised by Channel 4 at 9pm Sunday October 13.
09.09.02

A Bridge too far?
The proposed bridge across to the BBC prohibits movement on the river and upstream to the city centre. Clyde 'at risk' of Prague-style flood (8 Sep 2002)
09.09.02

Greater Easterhouse Cultural Campus
"Bold plans were today being unveiled for a £9million cultural campus in one of Glasgow’s most deprived areas....The state-of-the-art facility has been designed by award-winning Glasgow architect Gareth Hoskins and is expected to open in March 2005".
02.09.02

"Scottish Architecture is… always having to say you’re sorry"
"Against this backdrop, last Thursday’s unveiling of Murray & Dunlop’s eagerly anticipated Radisson Hotel in Glasgow’s Argyle Street should have offered welcome relief. What it turned out to be was an occasion for opportunistic mischief-making. As the tarpaulins came off, a tabloid reporter was poised to conduct a trial by media in the form of an ad hoc vox pop. Christening the structure ‘The Big Green Blob’, the Evening Times suggested the hotel had been given a "thumbs down", dismissed by tourists and locals alike as "ugly" and "boring""
01.09.02



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