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--may 2005




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Scottish Design Awards
Scottish Parliament wins main Scottish Design Awards Architecture Prize:
Benedetta Tagliabue + Tony Kettle pick up the award

Regeneration Award: Joint Winner - Tron Housing + Edinburgh Quay
Best Commercial Project - Sentinel Building
Architect of the Year: Paul Stallan, RMJM

Cafe in the Square
Glasgow Cafe in the Square: images online

Axiom
Park Lane Axiom flats

Glasgow Harbour - Update
Latest Glasgow Harbour images from Park Lane

Glasgow Architects Jobs

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

Control Tower
Edinburgh Airport Control Tower

Upper Strand
Burrell Company Upper Strand housing, Granton: new images

Chris Stewart Architects

Millbrae

Wedge Pollok
+ other recent projects

Donaldsons

Richard Murphy Architects' Donaldson's proposals over in Edinburgh for Cala Homes set to meet approval Wed 18 May
17.05.05

Sutherland Hussey

Garden pavilion / studio & terrace that just received planning permission for in the West End of Glasgow for a private client. Value around £80-100k using stone & timber with lead roof - on site shortly. Sutherland Hussey - who were recently nominated for the Mies Van Der Rohe Award - are working with Gross.Max on Edinburgh Waterfront walkway concepts, and recently unveiled their Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, shown on our Edinburgh news page

Global Toshie
Glasgow Council want World Heritage status for the work of Rennie Mackintosh and aim to have a Mackintosh Festival in Sep 2006

Page & Park School
£2m extension by Glasgow Architects to Edinburgh school: detailed plans granted

Waverley Steps
Waverley Station canopy and escalators: Princes Street steps

RMJM
Page 2 of current BD carries a story of frustration by Cala Homes regional director with RMJM on the Glasgow Harbour project.
Also quoted is Tony Kettle re company direction: 'It is the same as it has always been. We are interested in high-quality design...we are not interested in commercial tat which won't win awards.'

UK's Largest Architects
Building magazine's latest survey of the largest UK architects places the
Scottish architects Holmes Partnership at 11th. Top place goes to Building
Design Partnership
, followed by Dyer - the architects of QMUC - and HOK
international - architects of the new Telford College. Meanwhile BD and AJ both publish 'top 100' surveys, the former with Michael Laird Architects top of the Scots at 41st followed by Keppie and Cooper Cromar. BDP, who recently moved its studio from Glasgow's Blythswood Square to Exchange Place, came top in the Architects' Journal's AJ100 survey - by employing the greatest number of UK qualified architects, and second in the BD Impact 100 survey which uses a different set of criteria, to Foster & Partners

RIAS Sketch Comp

1st: Kelly MacKinnon of Anderson Bell + Christie - Govan Sketch Competition

Culloden
Gareth Hoskins Architects receives planning permission for the new visitor attraction and interpretive landscaping at the battlefield site of Culloden

North Glasgow College

RMJM appointed for £20m North Glasgow College facility in Springburn

Brian Stewart's so-called 'departure' from leading RMJM is splashed across the front cover of BD (and AJ, etc.) with reference to the impact of Holyrood. We understand that a differance of opinion over the direction of RMJM may have led to the stories but RMJM state 'Brian Stewart is on extended leave'. Brian was shown on the Gathering Place programme to be totally committed to the Scottish Parliament project, and was heavily instrumental in ensuring quality was not lost in the rush to complete the job: we wish him well

Dumbreck

gm+ad architects receives planning permission for Dumbreck School. The application will now go forward to the Scottish Executive for final approval

Glasworks
'Glasworks are currently putting together a photo weblog of the detail that makes up Glasgow. It will be based on our daily journeys through the city and how the various details that make up a city, influence our thoughts our actions and our decisions. Why do we take a particular route from A to B? Why do we vary it? Detail of old and new building will be incorporated into the various journeys we make from our studio to various places around the city' glasgowdetail.blogspot.com

RIAS Chief Exec
Mary Wrenn has been appointed the new Chief Executive of the RIAS: Mary has been Director of the Royal Society of Architects in Wales since 1993

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