Kibble Palace
“The Kibble Palace, which houses many rare tropical plants, was built in Glasgow’s Botanic Gardens in 1873…The Grade A-listed building is to receive a £3.49 million Heritage Lottery Fund award for restoration. Glasgow City Council plans to dismantle, restore and rebuild the structure, as well as open a visitor centre.”

Audi Scottish HQ + Museum
New flagship Audi Scottish HQ project visible from M8, approx £6 million, consists of dealership with sales & services, museum and training facilities for Audi staff & mechanics. Audi intend rolling out a further 3/4 throughout the UK.
John Dickie Construction Ltd.

SCOTLAND THE BRAVE?
have your say on NEW SCOTTISH ARCHITECTURE
Change to scheduled Fringe Exhibition
11 Aug - 12 Sep
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Restoration
TV conservation show - of dubious integrity, as reported previously in may’s news, and also in my Prospect column:Restoration starts at 9pm on BBC2 on Friday, August 8

An Turas
opening of Pierhead Arts Project 10 July

An Turas

Sassy Sensibility
From The Irish Times, concerning the SAS Hotel Glasgow:

"It is all too rare to find such a sensibility at work in the field of
commercial architecture......it stood head and shoulders above any commercial project in Ireland, on a par with outstanding public buildings"

Chairman's comments, Irish Architecture Awards 2003
24.07.03

Frozen Kilt

view Sir Frank Gehry's steel kilt, frozen in a sharp seaward breeze blowing off the Tay: Dundee Raspberry Ripple
24.07.03

St Vincent Crescent
"A campaign has been launched over the bid to build 22 modern flats opposite an A-listed row of 19th century houses"
26.07.03

Brownfield Research Centre
Boswell Mitchell & Johnston has won planning permission for a Cardiovascular Research Centre and Biomedical Research Centre on a brownfield site in the heart of Glasgow¹s west end and University district. The scheme for the University of Glasgow is expected to cost around £25 million, starts on site this autumn and complete for summer 2005 , finishing the ‘triangle of excellence’ with the recently completed Wolfson Medical School.
15.07.03

RMJM
Recent Glasgow projects

Roberston Street


Oswald Street


Broomielaw 'Courtyard Elevation'

Trinity project: latest image

Cooper Cromar Architects

The £100m development on the site of the former Strathclyde Regional Council headquarters
see trinity glasgow
08.07.03



Scottish win at irish awards

The Royal Institute of Architects in Ireland ( RIAI ) awarded the Radisson SAS Hotel in Glasgow, the Special Award for the Best Commercial Building at the Irish Architecture Awards 2003 ceremony in Dublin on July 7th:
Irish Architecture Awards
07.07.03

Creative Entrepreneurs
more cash announced for Lighthouse club
02.07.03

Glasgow Crumble
“The Scottish Civic Trust fears 67 structures are crumbling after years of neglect and estimates a further 61 are in danger. The number of buildings at risk in Glasgow is more than double the number in Edinburgh, which stands at just 32.“

200 Broomielaw building
for the Walker Group by Keppie Design

Broomielaw
03.07.03

Walker Group (Scotland) Ltd is currently working on a mix of developments including Westerwood, Peffermill - a 10½ acre industrial park near Edinburgh, Springkerse Retail Park, and a number of residential developments throughout Scotland. The Walker Group, which is based in Deans Industrial Estate in Livingston, currently employs more than 80 staff and has an annual turnover of £35m

New Museum of Transport
Charles Gordon, of Glasgow City Council, was reported to have rejected appointing a Scottish architect for the new Museum of Transport Glasgow in Kelvinside in favour of a signature architect such as Foster or Gehry:
Letter from Alan Dunlop
02.07.03

Give Scots a chance
“Glasgow’s leaders were last night urged not to shell out millions of pounds of tax-payers’ money on a new museum to commemorate the city’s shipbuilding heritage…..Charles Gordon, the Glasgow City Council leader, said: "We would like an element to the building that is really monumental in size, that will give visitors the feeling of the sheer size of the ships and dwarf them just as the workers on the ships were dwarfed." The museum has been proposed as a replacement for the current transport museum at Kelvingrove in the West End of the city…."
Signature Architect? Not another Bilbao please
"Gordon has said that the council plans to approach a leading international architect. for the project. Some front-runners include Sir Norman Foster, who designed the ‘Armadillo’ at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre in Glasgow or Frank Gehry, who designed the world-renowned Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao in the Basque country of Spain.“
02.07.03

Clyde Bank
One of the unofficial aims of the CWWG has been to make the riverside regeneration a national priority at Holyrood.

Gillespies
perspective of the riverside walkway:

added to tours: Glasgow Harbour



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