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26.03.03

Hidden Gardens

images by City Design Co-operative Ltd

More work in progress photos for the Hidden Gardens, the new garden at Tramway Theatre, Glasgow designed by Landscape Architects, City Design Co-operative Ltd.

Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum to close this June

The UK’s biggest architecture event, the RIAS Convention, will take place on 8, 9 & 10 May 2003 in Stirling and Falkirk. The Convention, now in its 23rd year, is one of the most significant gatherings of architects and design professionals in Europe.

Speakers at this year’s event include: Adam Caruso of Caruso St John, designers of Walsall Art Gallery; Andrew Farquhar of nva organisation, designer of Glasgow’s secret garden behind the Tramway; Latvian/Canada, Gunnar Birkerts (who will be talking about his ‘Glass Crystal’ National Library project for RIGA); and Farshid Moussavi of Foreign Office Architects, designers of Yokohama Port Terminal, Japan.

In the run up to the Convention, sketch design competitions are under way - exploring ways of addressing underperformance in our built environment. In Stirling, the north (rear) elevation of the 30-year-old Thistle Centre presents a gloomy welcome to visitors to the City. Ideas are being sought for its transformation.

In Falkirk architects and urban designers are being invited to present a strategic plan for the east end of the Town Centre. Tourists, attracted by the Falkirk Wheel, will be encouraged to spend time in the Centre and at Callendar House, a splendid mansion to the East. With a shopping centre, bus station, multi-storey car park, bingo hall and food store, the aim will be to suggest ways of galvanising it economically, and making stronger connections to the Park.

In addition, students are invited to put forward proposals for two sites in Central Falkirk; and Falkirk upper primary pupils are exploring ideas for play facilities in Callendar Park.

The sketch competitions are being supported by Stirling Council, Falkirk Council and the Falkirk Action Plan to encourage public debate and positive change. Some of the visiting speakers will participate in judging the entries.

RIAS Sketch Design Competitions 2003
TRANSFORM STIRLING OR FALKIRK TOWN CENTRE

Architects, architectural students and schoolchildren have been invited to put forward proposals for improving Stirling and Falkirk Town Centres. Sketch Design Competitions, run by the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland, and aimed at stimulating public debate about the built environment of Central Scotland, are now open for entries.

The competitions will be judged during the RIAS Convention - Making Connections, on 8, 9 and 10 May in Stirling and Falkirk. The annual Convention is one of the most significant gatherings of architects and design professionals in Europe.

In Stirling, the north (rear) elevation of the 30-year-old Thistle Centre presents a gloomy welcome to visitors to the City. Ideas are being sought for its transformation.

In Falkirk architects and urban designers are being invited to present a strategic plan for the east end of the Town Centre. Tourists, attracted by the Falkirk Wheel, will be encouraged to spend time in the Centre and at Callendar House. With a shopping centre, bus station, multi-storey car park, bingo hall and food store, the aim will be to suggest ways of galvanising it economically, and making stronger connections to the Park.

In addition, students are invited to put forward proposals for two sites in Central Falkirk; and Falkirk upper primary pupils are exploring ideas for play facilities in Callendar Park.

The sketch competitions are being supported by Stirling Council, Falkirk Council and the Falkirk Action Plan to encourage public debate and positive change. Some of the visiting speakers will participate in judging the entries.

Incl. trip to Falkirk Wheel
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Argyll and the Islands : An Illustrated Architectural Guide
Launch 3 Apr at Loch Fyne Hotel, Inveraray
Review online late next week

The Rutland Press is proud to announce the launch of Argyll and the Islands, the 27th volume in the Illustrated Architectural Guides series, at the Loch Fyne Hotel, Inveraray on Thursday April 3rd.

The book journeys through the landscape of lochs, isles and glens to discover a mass of architectural riches.

With over 600 illustrations, Argyll and the Islands covers Inveraray, Campbeltown, Oban, Lochgilphead, the Inner Hebrides and all areas between. From medieval castles to country houses, kirks and distilleries, the book is an essential guide to the built heritage of this beautiful area.
The Rutland Press gratefully acknowledges the generous support of:
Argyll and the Islands, Loch Lomond, Stirling & Trossachs (AILLST) Tourist Board;
North British Trust Hotels; The Oban Times; Blair Atholl Estates; PF Charitable Trust; Raven’s Charitable Trust; Michael Blackenham; Patrick Lorimer; Angus Macdonald; and Mr & Mrs D Stewart.

Author

Frank Arneil Walker is emeritus professor of architecture of the University of Strathclyde. He writes regularly on architectural and urban history, is author of The South Clyde Estuary, and co-author of The North Clyde Estuary and Central Glasgow in this series.

Great George Street

image by cooper cromar

On behalf of Palisade Properties Plc, Cooper Cromar have now applied for detailed planning permission to erect 16 residential flats with rooftop gardens and ground floor class 1/2 retail space, at Great George Street, Glasgow.


Wolfson Award

photo by Gavin Fraser, Foto-Ma design group

Reiach & Hall Architects: Wolfson Medical School
For the University of Glasgow

Lighting Design Awards PR:
The Wolfson Medical School by Reiach and Hall Architects has received notable credit in the Lighting Design Awards 2003. The Wolfson Medical School was placed second only to the winner Daniel Libeskind’s Imperial War Museum, Manchester. This ‘Highly Commended’ placing allows the worth of the Medical School to be viewed at an international level.

Judges visited the Wolfson Medical School earlier this year and were absorbed by the quality and integration of light within the building. Light translates and reflects the architectural concept of a refined crystalline glass envelope.

The award honours the design team collaboration between Reiach and Hall, Foto-Ma Design Group and Hulley & Kirkwood as well as the support of the client.

Selfridges Store
Toyo Ito to design Selfridges

"Upmarket department store group Selfridges is close to appointing a "signature architect", possibly from overseas, to dream up a futuristic design for its £90m Glasgow store.

Peter Williams, chief executive…Selfridges has already appointed the Business Design Partnership, whose Glasgow office will help in designing the store. Williams said a detailed planning application would be submitted in the middle of this year, with planning permission expected by the end of the year."

Central Quay
"Aukett Europe has been commissioned to define the development potential of Central Quay in Glasgow. The masterplan aims to consider its context and constraints and to identify the preferred design philosophy that should be applied to ensure that the area becomes the foremost high density urban business park in Scotland."

Garrison House
Restoration of House & Grounds
for Cumbrae Comunity Development Company
by Lee Boyd of Edinburgh

European Heritage Awards

St Andrew's in the Square church building and The Lighthouse in Glasgow were the only sites in Scotland to be named as buildings of outstanding historic importance by Europa Nostra, an organisation of more than 200 non-governmental heritage groups.

Loyalty Card?
Blurred boundaries in a bizarre world - shop asks builders to design schools:
“Supermarket giant Safeway, which is overseeing the project, appointed [Miller Construction] the Edinburgh-based group to design and build a new primary school, three nursery school extensions to existing schools.”

Tough Copper

exclusive photo

Radisson SAS Hotel
"Glasgow, copper; copper, Glasgow. Here are a city and a material made for one another.

“There is a tendency to expect architects to use sandstone, sandstone and, erm, sandstone in the design and construction of new buildings in the city," says Alan Dunlop. "It is a bit of a cliche. We wanted to reflect Glasgow's historic use of metals.

We've had local people call us and say the building's ugly and that we should have used the local red stone. But Glasgow is not Edinburgh - it's a tougher place altogether. We wanted to capture some of its robustness and vigour in a way that nodded, without being overly sentimental, to the past while looking, perhaps a little cockily, to the future"."

article by Jonathan Glancey
03.03.03

Shed expands
St Enoch Centre to get a £15m expansion:
10.02.03




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