Scottish Housing, Houses in Scotland
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| April 2003 |
Scottish Housing
Hill of Spears: Slioch
Quoted in Times: “‘Punk’ architect Alan Dunlop makes a granny flat cool with a sprinkling of stylish minimalism, writes Christine Ferguson.
When Alan Dunlop, one of Scotland’s most talked-about architects, decided to build a “granny pad” for his parents-in-law, he eschewed the conventional approach of building two rooms over a garage and created an unexpectedly minimalist home instead.”
27.04.03
Springboig Avenue
Supported Housing for People with Dementia
Wellhouse Community Complex
By Chris Stewart Architects
Wellhouse Community Complex, and supported housing for people with dementia for the Cube Housing Association, Greater Easterhouse, Glasgow.
Site is due to start for the Wellhouse Hub in June and at Springboig Avenue in July.
Chris Stewart Architects have three other projects due to go on site in August:
The ‘Wedge’, Pollok, for Greater Pollok Social Inclusion Partnership. New build offices and community facilities. Wedge shaped design incorporates sedum roof and natural ventilation system.
Moorpark Regeneration, for Williamsburgh Housing Association. 54 new build houses in centre of Moorpark area, design includes the provision of ‘Home Zones’ and accessible housing.
Sustainability Centre, Rothesay, Isle of Bute for Bute Waste Watchers and Fyne Homes.
15-16-17.04.03
308 Clyde Street
Jewitt Arschavir & Wilkie Architects are pleased to announce that Planning Permission was received for a mixed-use (mainly residential) development at 308 Clyde Street, Glasgow (adjacent to Central Station) this week.
Vintners Design Statement
12.04.03
Scottish Book Review
Argyll And The Islands
An Illustrated Architectural Guide
I expected a stronger architectural slant but was buoyed by a a vivid socio-political thread underpinning the ‘story’. The influence of the Clans, specifically the Campbell’s rise to power, and the sea are used to explain the process and product of building in Argyll and the Isles. What a delight to read not just about Inveraray’s axis but that it was largely built by sea-borne materials: architecture guides so often miss out these salient aspects.
Coming from the Kincardineshire, the west coast always had a ‘contrasting’ fascination, so for me Argyll is largely unknown though my father has carried out research at Glen Branter for three decades. Frank Arneil Walker however has a keen knowledge of the area that oozes out of the book; he also has a lyrically descriptive style that sells the region better than your typical tourist guide.
This latest hardback Illustrated Architectural Guide in the Rutland Press series has 224 pages, mostly black and white plates with the occasional dash of colour. The guide has five main sections: Cowal, Mid Argyll, Kintyre, Lorn and the Islands. The introduction is by Joan Scott, RIAS Glasgow Chapter (GIA) President and she rightly points out that the book also includes reference to Scottish social history. This interweaving is for me the key ingredient for the book’s success.
Adrian Welch
The price of the book is £10.95
Victorian fish market
The Briggait on Clyde Street:
This week Glasgow City Council and the WASPS group, which runs studios in the city, tabled a Lottery bid for half of the £10million cost of upgrading the Briggait and existing art studios and galleries in King Street
08.04.03
RIAS Award for Architecture 2003
The search is on again to find the best new building in Scotland.
Judges:
Andrew Doolan, Andrew Doolan Architects, Edinburgh
Irene Barkley, President, Edinburgh Architectural Association
Professor Andy MacMillan, Emeritus Professor, Mackintosh School of Architecture
Julia Barfield, Marks Barfield Architects, London
The closing date for entries to the RIAS Award for Architecture, Best Building in Scotland is 30 May 2003
RIAS call for Transformation of RFACS
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RIAS election message
02.04.03
Cinema to go
Bulldozers have moved in on the 1920s Grosvenor Cinema in Ashton Lane in Hillhead, Glasgow.
Glasgow Fort, Auchinlea
Glasgow Fort: on behalf of Capital & Regional / Pillar Developments, construction works have now commenced on-site for 'Glasgow Fort' - a new concept out of town retail centre and leisure development totalling 500,000 square feet. The site will be directly accessible from the adjacent Junction 10 of the M8 motorway
Innovative Communications Complex for Strathclyde Police
Cooper Cromar Architects with Ballast Construction Scotland have been awarded an important new contract from Strathclyde Police to design and construct a new Communications Complex in Glasgow. The £5.4m project is due to start on site in the spring with completion planned for May 2004
images by cooper cromar
The new Complex, to be built close to Ibrox Stadium, will be a four-storey building, and will provide Strathclyde Police Force with a Police Control room, Call Centre, IT and Communications departments, along with associated external works.
Following the execution of a Public Interface Review by Strathclyde Police in 2000/2001, it was recommended that a Communications Complex should be built as an integral part of a new strategy for call handling and communications. This strategy aims to alleviate the hazards of the current situation where incoming calls, including 999 calls, are taken at dozens of locations across the region. From 2004/2005, all telephone calls will be taken at two handling centres - the new Complex and a smaller centre at Motherwell.
Simultaneously, Strathclyde Police are to roll out their new 'Airwave' Police radio system, using the special equipment rooms included in the Complex. The building, which is to be operational 24 hours a day, will also provide much needed space and facilities for the Forces' Communications and IT Departments, as well as staff cafés on every floor."
Proposed Residential Development, Kilmarnock Road, Glasgow
For CastleGait Homes
image by Pixel Image
On behalf of CastleGait Homes, and following the recent demolition of the former Tinto Firs Hotel, works have now commenced on the site of this flatted development comprising 24 x 2 bed units, that also provides dedicated off street parking and a high level of internal specification including lifts serving each of the floors.
04.04.03
Contextualism Challenged
'gm+ad's work is described as being brash: it could also be described as being punk architecture, the SAS Hotel Glasgow wing for example is subversive to Glasgow's grid, to the regular underpinning of the city both metaphorically and physically'.
gm+ad book review
02.04.03
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