| --march 2005 |
GH2
Gordon Murray and Alan Dunlop architects are delighted to announce that their £70m project for Kippax Ltd/ Dandara Ltd at Glasgow Harbour Phase II has been granted planning approval: some exclusive images, more went online on tuesday. materials and height colour drawing online late wednesday
22.03.05
Jobs News
The Scottish Architecture market appears to be short of recruits: for practices that wish to recruit Architects and Technicians in Scotland please contact mail@glasgowarchitecture.co.uk to ask for our rates: an advert can be placed on either the Edinburgh or Glasgow news pages - or both - for as many weeks as you wish until a position is filled
We have launched a new Glasgow Architect Jobs page - carrying Anders Elite positions - focusing on Glasgow but also Edinburgh, Dundee, Aberdeen & Stirling. This will compement the existing Scottish Architecture Jobs page - carrying BaR positions
Miracles
Magnus Linklater put the case for Enric Miralles at the Blueprint Award for Architect of the Year 2004
RSA Exhibition
New Architecture for Arts - Royal Scottish Academy:
Ric Russell, Malcolm Fraser and Richard Murphy
EUROPAN Architecture Competition
The registration period for Europan 8 Architecture Competition commences on 7 Mar 2005. We campaigned in 2003 / 2004 for UK sites to be included in this current Europan and CABE announced early 2005 that UK sites will now be included. Note, our Architecture Competitions page is regularily updated and globally high ranking
Forthside
Images of Robert Adam Architects' Western Harbour proposals, Edinburgh
Café in the Square, George Square, Glasgow
Architects are invited to register an interest in participating in a design competition as Lead Consultants for the design and procurement of the above
building. Upon receipt of expressions of interest, a brief including a pre-qualification questionnaire will be issued. The return date for completed
questionnaires (not tenders) is 1 Apr, 12noon. The submitted questionnaires are then subjected to an intensive evaluation process after which a shortlist of up to 6 lead consultants will be given an honorarium of £4,000 to submit design proposals for the design competition
Expressions of interest to: Veronica Bolan on 0141 287 9968 or to
veronica.bolan@drs.glasgow.gov.uk
Interchange Competition
This year's RIAS Sketch Design Competition (£6,000) for architects resident in Scotland, is for a dynamic structure for the Underground and Bus Station interchange, with new offices and retail opportunities in Govan, or a site for housing/mixed use between the transport hub and the Clyde ferry point.
Sketches on one A1 landscape board are to be submitted to: Liz McCaffrey, RIAS Competition (Govan), c/o Pearce Institute, 840 Govan Rd, Glasgow, G51 3UU, to arrive by 4pm, 27 Apr. For more info / CD, contact Gail Millar: gmillar@rias.org.uk
Strathclyde University Revamp
Four new buildings including a new sports complex & biomedical science centre in Cathedral St plus thirteen buildings will get major refurbishments in the most ambitious estates plan - £200m - of any Scottish university
Unicorn
environmental impact analysis - Unicorn Tower new images
Vantage
308 Clyde St by Jewitt Arschavir & Wilkie Architects
Expensive Squint?
Finnieston bridge on Pacific Quay by Gillespies now expected to cost £20.3m, up from original £8-10m
CZWG
Queen Elizabeth Square images
Make v Keppie
Forth Valley £250m PFI Hospital at Larbert: Make Architecture / Skanska and Keppie Design / Laing O'Rourke compete for major building at Royal Scottish National Hospital site. Ken Shuttleworth's Make are already working in Scotland at Granton Harbour
Disrepair Despair
Glasgow City Council Report proposing crack down on landlords who let their properties fall into disrepair by using statutory powers such as purchase orders: nearly 200 buildings require urgent work
Herald Building
Refurbished A listed Herald building, creating some discussion, e-mails welcome
Red Road to be Flattened
Glasgow Housing Association has announced plans to pull down the city's
notorious Red Road scheme as part of a £60m redevelopment. The eight skyscrapers, once the tallest in Europe, are due to be demolished over the next decade
Addition: Timber Structure
Scottish Timber House
More Design Guides
Argyll and Bute Council is producing a practical design guide that "will promote good quality, sustainable and contemporary building design suited to the landscape, towns and villages of Argyll and Bute". Really?
David Douglas Centre
Eastern Birds
Simpson & Brown Architects' SOC headquarters, Aberlady
03.03.05
Maggies Inverness
by Page & Park Architects
02.03.05
Sebastian Tombs: A+DS
RIAS Chief Exec / Secretary appointed as Chief Executive of Architecture and Design Scotland; RIAS looking for replacement
01.03.05
Edinburgh Castle
Gareth Hoskins Architects win Edinburgh Castle project
Foster wins SECC II
Foster & Partners win concert arena at Glasgow SECC site
Homes for the Future
Glasgow Airport
Glasgow Cathedral
Hill House
Glasgow Housing