Glasgow News: archive

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Sage building : Foster & Partners jun 2006
Scottish House : NORD jun 2006
Frankfurt Architecture - photos of key buildings jul 2006
Frank Lloyd Wright house - photos from 20 jul 2006 online 260706

Glasgow Harbour - GH2 News

Progress Shots of Glasgow Harbour Phase Two - online 010806

Exclusive: Zaha Hadid's first UK building

Maggies Centre building shell virtually complete in Kirkcaldy: Zaha Hadid building

Exclusive: Richard Murphy Architects building
Cowgate housing images: Edinburgh News

Telford Drive Housing
Images from Glasgow architects gm+ad - contemporary housing complete 260706

Glasgow Tower set on fire by Edinburgh Professor
Renowned Professor of Fire Safety Engineering at Edinburgh University Jose Torero conducted an experiment this week on a 24-storey Dalmarnock tower at Allan St. the BBC are to screen a programme on this experiment in the coming months

Quartermile: Offices to Housing
Site images online late 270706
Homes and shops to replace an eight-storey office block proposal. Edinburgh City Council unanimously approved plans to create three apartment blocks on the site - 125 flats & two commercial units. Planners noted proposals were "a vast improvement" on the original Quartermile plans: Quartermile News

Glasgow Sports Facilities
The £14.5m Toryglen project - indoor football facilities + outdoor pitches to start in September

Infirmary Street Baths
Malcolm Fraser Architects - proposal to convert disused Victorian baths to weaving room, gallery, offices and residential: Infirmary Street Baths previously subject to proposals for EDI by Glasgow architects - Gareth Hoskins Architects

AHSS land Prince Charles as Patron
Prince Charles has accepted Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland council's invitation to become the Society's patron

St Enoch Centre Redevelopment
Plans for £100m redevelopment by Cooper Cromar Architects of major Glasgow shopping centre unveiled: expansion by a third, floor space increasing to 1.3m sqft: shops, restaurants, multi-screen cinema & nightclub

Sustainable Glasgow Village - SECC
Self-contained village community west of SECC Glasgow gains outline approval. A 20-acre car park on the banks of the Clyde will be transformed into a 'sustainable village' of 1600 homes by Glasgow-based developers, Elphinstone, as reported in 2004. Concept designs for this residential development originally by RMJM Architects.

Glasgow Promotion
Glasgow Mackintosh Festival listings

Stirling News
Construction consortium unveiled for £120m regeneration of a deprived part of Stirling.
R3, joint venture consortium of the Cruden Group and George Wimpey, awarded preferred bidder status for major redevelopment work at Raploch: 650 private houses, 250 socially-rented houses, health centre, two primary schools & sports facilities

Parkhead Forge Housing
111 new flats submitted for planning on former industrial land in Glasgow's East End under £4m plans by RGP Architects for Elementary Property Company

RMJM Proposals
Erection of office building at 2 West Regent St / 93 West Nile St + 42 flats with ground flr commercial unit at 10-16 Dixon St, Glasgow by RMJM Architects

Scottish Exec sets Green Standards
Micro Renewables: New housing and other developments should generate at least 10% of their energy on site from renewable sources, according to new Scottish Executive standards. This follows on from London standards set by Ken Livingstone.

Scotland is the first UK country to consider such a standard. The draft Planning Policy on Renewable Energy proposes local authorities designate areas suitable for wind farm applications and those that are not; greater account is taken of issues like natural heritage and cumulative impacts of wind farms on communities and local authorities support a diverse range of renewable energy technologies including encouraging the development of growing and new technologies.

The target is to generate 40% of Scotland's electricity from renewable sources by 2020 and reduce harmful carbon emissions

Restoration - Again
This year's BBC2 Restoration Village series involves 21 UK buildings.
Scottish Shortlist:
Cromarty East Church, Black Isle
Dennis Head Old Beacon, Orkney
Greenlaw Town Hall, Berwickshire

East Lothian Culture & Heritage Centre - Winner
East Lothian Council selected Gray, Marshall & Associates of Edinburgh to design a new Culture and Heritage Centre in Haddington. In consultation with the RIAS, the winning firm was chosen from a shortlist of six based on design quality & cost. Architects submitting included Richard Murphy and Malcolm Fraser Architects.

Usher Hall Restoration
Contractors began £12m enabling utility works around the Usher Hall in Edinburgh mid July, in advance of Phase II, which involves a glass wing on Grindlay St

Scottish Sustainable Development Indicators
The progress of the Scottish Executive's achievements in sustainable development, along with a new set of indicators that will be used to measure further progress, have been published. The indicators have been refreshed and strengthened to reflect the key outcomes in the sustainable development strategy Choosing our Future, including new measures on carbon emissions and the uptake of eco-schools.

Forest Amphitheatre Competition

Dornoch project for Forestry Commission: Rural Design, locate architects and Neil Sutherland Architects: Dornoch Building - 130706

Glasgow Architects - Shetland

Gareth Hoskins wins £7m Cinema & Music Venue in Lerwick for same Client
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Gareth Hoskins wins £7m Mid Yell Junior High School for Shetland Islands Council
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Glasgow News: Kelvingrove Museum Opens

Major Scottish Gallery & Museum refurbished by BDP Architects - opened 110706: Glasgow Museum

Sagrada Familia to use Scottish Stone

Stone from Clashach Quarry, Moray, is being used to complete parts of Sagrada Familia by Gaudi in Barcelona: a ceiling and a main staircase.
Sandstone from the quarry of Moray Stone Cutters has already been used in the construction of the National Museum of Scotland and the extension to the National Gallery in Edinburgh, as well as the 9/11 memorial in New York

Firhill Basin - former Iron Works
British Waterways submitted plans by MCM Architects for erection of flats at Firhill Basin's former Iron Works on Panmure St, Glasgow

Kilmarnock Town Centre Regeneration
East Ayrshire Council has invited local business people to an updated briefing on the regeneration of Kilmarnock Town Centre: four key themes were identified: shopping, living, working and enjoying.
Townscape Heritage Initiative bid submitted - a response from Heritage Lottery Fund is expected in October, total package worth £15m

Aberdeen Regional Sports Centre News
New £23m Regional Sports Centre in Aberdeen designed by Reiach & Hall Architects, one of six regional centres planned for Scotland

Glasgow Competition
Competition to design a new 'Community Green' for Pollokshields - 040706

Scottish Eyesore to Go
St James Centre £200m proposals unveiled - doubling in size, incl. demolition of St James House, plus new Department Store: Edinburgh News

Historic Controversy
Letter re Castle Tioram: "To renovate it as a living quarters would totally destroy it's value in each of those aspects above listed. How can anyone even CONSIDER doing such a thing to such a building?" - 030706

Glasgow Architects News
"Kath MacTaggart has joined BDP’s Glasgow office to lead the practice’s landscape group in Scotland and develop their portfolio of education, health, retail and public realm focused projects. Kath previously worked with Macgregor-Smith in Bath. Kath will now be based at BDP’s office, 15 Exchange Place, Glasgow" - 290606





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