Falkirk Wheel Scotland: Lighting Design

--july 2005

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Falkirk Wheel lighting by Scottish company

architecture debate
discussion forums are aplenty but the dialogue tends towards soundbite carping and incrowd chat
enter a forum with a differance
we kick off with a piece on iconic architecture
stimulate the debate - 7 texts online eg re iconic buildings

Glasgow Architects Jobs
Wish to improve prospects? One-stop shop: Scottish Architecture Jobs

The Bathhouse
New visual arts centre - The Bathhouse - Merchant City by RMJM Glasgow

Architect of the Year
Deadline for BD Awards 2005: 29 Jul, see Architecture Competitions

10/10
RIAS Festival Fringe Exhibition: Glasgow Events

Kinning Park
RMJM residential project in for planning: Govan Building
27.07.05

A+DS Draw Line under Schools Row
The Architecture + Design Scotland Chief Exec met Highland Council representatives to discuss their controversial PPP2 Schools programme

Stirling Parliament
RIAS announced 27.07.05 that the Scottish Parliament - as expected - is shortlisted for the Stirling Prize

Shortlist - Buildings:
Bennetts Associates Brighton Library
EMBT/RMJM Scottish Parliament
Zaha Hadid BMW Central Building in Leipzig
Foster and Partners McLaren Technology Centre
O'Donnell + Tuomey's Lewis Gluckman Gallery in Cork
Alsop Designs Fawood Children's Centre

Early favourites vary wildly: the AJ state Bennetts are outsiders whilst BD state Bennetts' library is the bookies favourite. In fact Readabet's initial odds show it equal with Foster's McLaren building. No mention of the Scottish Parliament, except BD's Ellis Woodman who tips it for the Prize. Confused?!

Scotsman's Spoiler by Glendinning: "set-piece "signature" buildings like the new Scottish Parliament have had their day......One can be sure there are more egregious icons on the way - each one completely different and new, yet all alike. We in Scotland, however, are relatively lucky, as there's still relatively few of them. Thus we can still pull back from the brink".
http://news.scotsman.com/archive.cfm?id=1690292005

Scottish Materials
Problems with specifiying Scottish slate, etc.

Mike Stoane Lighting: 10th Birthday
Draw to win a MSL chandelier. Just send your business card to Mike Stoane Lighting, 20 Dryden Rd, Bilston Glen Industrial Estate, Loanhead, Midlothian, EH20 9LZ to be included. St Giles Cathedral chandelier above

Architects Listings
36th Glasgow Architect practice added - Capita Percy Thomas

John McAslan + Partners
Tradeston news

Danish Opera
Copenhagen Opera House by Henning Larsen Architects - Scottish Lighting

Cotswolds Water House
Lakeside Boathouse by Sutherland Hussey, Scotland

Urban Riverside Housing
Custom House Quay approved

How to Destroy a Building - A British Speciaility
Kielder Water Architecture: softroom pavilion

Chroma Streams; Tide and Traffic
Kingston Bridge illumination by New York lighting artist Leni Schwendinger with Ian Alexander of jmarchitects. The lighting sequences and colour palette is linked to road traffic levels on the bridge and the tidal flows of the Clyde

Highland Houses
rural design - Highland houses:
Elgol + Plockton + Portree
Rural Design ltd are expanding - are you a part 1, part2/3, or a good technician and fancy working in the north-west of Scotland?

What's the story?
CiAO Mull Theatre project
Architecture Competitions




Scottish Architecture: best scottish buildings of the last three decades

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