Glasgow News: archive

Kibble Palace reopens
The Kibble Palace reopened to the public 30 November 2006 following a multi-million pound restoration. Glasgow's Lord Provost Liz Cameron performed the opening ceremony, the doors of the Kibble opened to the public at noon. 301106

Orkney PPP
Orkney Islands Council to join Scottish Executive Public Private Partnership schools building programme, approx £50m value 301106

Ardersier - New Town
Highland Council planners have recommended approval for outline permission for almost 2,000 homes, a hotel, marina and other facilities by Farrells at Ardersier: views welcome on sending in bulldozers to one of the most environmentally sensitive areas of Highland coastline - within the Moray Firth Special Area of Conservation & the Inner Moray Firth Special Protection Area

Blythswood Square
£17m redevelopment of Royal Scottish Automobile Club to form 5-star hotel - by Town House Company, owner of Bonham Hotel: Blythswood Square 231106

GCC - City Development
"Councillor Steven Purcell, the Leader of Glasgow City Council, has announced an ambitious economic blueprint, which will build the foundations for a thriving, world-class city within the next decade.
Delivering the key-note address to the State of the City Economy Conference at the Radisson Hotel, Cllr Purcell insisted that Scotland's largest city must provide a 'step change' to build economic confidence and productivity which includes prosperity and opportunity for all of our citizens.
In a sign of the continuing strength of Glasgow, Cllr Purcell announced that investment had risen sharply in terms of construction projects, either agreed or underway. Last year, the figure for 2004-05 was £3.4 billion - in 2005-06 this had risen to a record £4.2 billion, representing a 22% increase in a single year. 231106

RIAS Talkshop
Members invited to “Talkshop” session 11 Dec to meet some new faces in RIAS staff team and contribute thoughts to strategic development of RIAS: Edinburgh Events

Agit-Correspondence
Another letter in aj 23Nov from Alan Dunlop, re Andy Doolan Award. Recent letters to AJ from Malcolm Fraser, Alan Dunlop: criticism of Richard Horden and Jan Kaplicky by Alan Dunlop and of Alan Dunlop by Malcolm Fraser. Plus an angry letter from one of former Scottish architect Peter White's (imprisoned 2005) old Clients, upset at lack of help from arb and RIAS re problems building a house when the architect exits stage left.

New Arts Faculty
St Andrews University building by Reiach and Hall Architects: two more images

Velodrome to go

Velodrome set to be approved by GCC this week - 2000 seats, part of the
Scottish National Indoor Arena 201106

Museum of Transport - new images

Glasgow Museum of Transport by Zaha Hadid Architects

The Bridge - complete

Easterhouse Cultural Campus by Gareth Hoskins Architects forms base for the new National Theatre of Scotland & incl. visual, performing arts + community facilities

St Enoch Centre Extension

St Enoch Centre building by Cooper Cromar Architects 121106

Best Building in Scotland - Winner:

Maggie's Highland Cancer Care Centre: Page\Park Architects - Maggies Inverness

Point Hotel

Images of Point Hotel "radical refurbishment" by KBA 181106

Sustainability Awards
Scottish Architects shortlisted: Sustainable Building of the Year: Scottish Natural Heritage, Inverness - Keppie Design; Sustainable Development of the Year: Royal Bank of Scotland World HQ - Michael Laird Architects : Sustainability Awards

Pay Planners More?
Andrew Mickel, director of housebuilders Mactaggart & Mickel, has called on planners to be paid more and given performance-related bonuses: Scottish Planning

Centre for Regenerative Medicine
Sheppard Robson appointed to design Centre for Regenerative Medicine for the University of Edinburgh, £35m centre at the Little France campus 101106

Briggait Centre
Nicoll Russell Studios' £4.5m Briggait Centre project receives £1.7m lottery funding

Scottish Ballet – Tramway

Planning permission for £11m Scottish Ballet building by Malcolm Fraser Architects

City Park wins

City Park Glasgow, recently adapted and refurbished by Cooper Cromar, has "won all major property awards this year" 081106

Best Building in Scotland
RIAS Andrew Doolan Award for Architecture 2006 - shortlist announced 061106:
Maggie's Highland Cancer Care Centre, Inverness (Page\Park)
The Scottish Storytelling centre, Edinburgh (Malcolm Fraser Architects)
Perth Concert Hall, Perth (Building Design Partnership Ltd)
St Mary's Metropolitan Cathedral redevelopment, Edinburgh (LDN Architects)
The Bridge Arts Centre, Easterhouse, Glasgow (Gareth Hoskins)
JKS Workshops, Clydebank (Gordon Murray + Alan Dunlop Architects)
The Saltire Centre, Glasgow (Building Design Partnership Ltd)
Kelvingrove New Century Project, (Building Design Partnership Ltd)
Three Seton Mains, Longniddry (Paterson Architects)
Royal Bank of Scotland HQ, Gogarburn, Edinburgh (Michael Laird Architects)

John Knox Street Warehouse : PR

gm+ad in China

Gordon Murray and Alan Dunlop Architects are included in a new global architecture publication...this follows on from a recent visit by a film crew from Montreal, who were interested in the work of gm+ad and architecture in Glasgow

NORD win
Glasgow architects NORD win Young Architect of the Year + Gareth Hoskins Architects win Health Architect of the Year

Gareth Hoskins - Warsaw
GHA are one of only four British practices shortlisted for the new £38m National Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw - final submission in February 2007

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

Scottish Parliament Photos
Scottish Parliament - full set of photos added

Lighthouse Head
Following the not-so-recent relieving departure of former Lighthouse director Stuart Macdonald we have Nick Barley from The List magazine taking over at the curiously titled ‘The Lighthouse, Scotland’s National Architecture and Design Centre’. We wish Nick all the best in transforming The Lighthouse into a body that works with all those who promote architecture in Scotland, including our two websites. We have done much to promote Scottish architecture with countless foreign tours and much international contact, not to mention a robust resource; yet the websites have never received a penny from the Scottish Executive as The Lighthouse is the sole beneficiary. This concentration of power and finance into one body based solely in one city (Glasgow) must stop. The concept put about by The Lighthouse for 'satellite architecture centres' has never materialised - why?

Nick will take over from acting director Julia Fenby in Jan 2007. Stuart McDonald left in May to become Head of Gray’s School of Art Aberdeen.

Saltire Awards
2 Nov - Lighthouse
Saltire Housing Design Awards presented by Rhona Brankin
Talk by Miles Glendinning
Convenor of the Saltire Housing Design Awards panel: Karen Anderson
No results on Saltire Awards website, no PR received, so no results!





Glasgow News : Oct 2006

Glasgow News - Highlights up to Nov 2006:

Zaha Hadid Scotland
First building by Zaha Hadid completed in UK, Zaha Hadid Maggies Centre, Kirkcaldy

Scottish house
New Garden Room - Kilmacolm house by abbozzo architects

Page \ Park building

Campbeltown Aqualibrium (above) added 291006

Gold, Silver and Bronze for gm+ad
Glasgow architects Gordon Murray & Alan Dunlop Architects picked up a Gold, 2 Silver & a Bronze Award at the Roses Design Awards

Architect of the Year Awards - Glasgow Architects
Anderson Bell Christie shortlisted in four categories
Gareth Hoskins Architects shortlisted for Health Architect of the Year
HLM Architects shortlisted for Health + Education Architect of the Year
Nord Urban Salon one of four shortlisted for Young Architect of the Year
Architect of the Year Awards 2006

Elder & Cannon buildings

Brabloch Park + The Wright Business Centre, photos added by Keith Hunter

Clyde Waterfront Expo

International exhibition & conference on waterfront regeneration - Clyde Waterfront Expo : Glasgow News

RIAS News
New Director of Practice: Andrew Leslie
Certification of Design of small domestic projects project manager: Grant Gordon
Research Officer: Dr Soledad Garcia Ferrari
Dedicated secretary to Presidents' Policy Committee & Council: Samantha Toon
Director of Client Services: William Wood
RIAS News 161006

Stirling Prize Building
Stirling Prize winner, 14 Oct - Barajas Airport by Richard Rogers Partnership

Glasgow Waterfront
Glasgow Events: Waterfront Expo 17 - 19 Oct : SECC

SMC Group Plc – Scottish acquisitions
Davis Duncan Architects + Hugh Martin Partnership + Jenkins and Marr Architects + Parr Architects. All retitled SMC Scotland

BCO Awards

BCO Awards 2006 - Scottish winners

Glasgow urban regeneration
Construction has begun on the second phase of the College Heights development

Scottish Hospitals by HLM Architects
Mid Argyll Community Hospital + New Victoria Hospital Glasgow


Glasgow News : Sep 2006

Glasgow News - Highlights up to Oct 2006:

Property Awards
Property Executive Awards 290906

Merchant Building - Images

Glasgow housing by Gholami Baines Architects : Glasgow Cross 240906

St Andrews Square building
Alba Town, has begun construction on £14m development which will complete the transformation of St Andrews Square, Glasgow by architects Page and Park 220906

Glasgow Architects
Gareth Hoskins Architects feature at an exhibition in New York, organised by the Van Alen Institute. GHA is the only Scottish practice invited to exhibit 210906

Glasgow College

North Glasgow College - new RMJM Architects image

Rennie Mac Church Refurb
Scottish Enterprise Glasgow to provide £180k funding : Queen's Cross Glasgow

Glasgow Harbour

Progress shots of Glasgow Harbour 200906

Glasgow Bridge : 'Clyde Arc'

Finnieston Bridge opened 180906

Glasgow News

Recent photos added: Finnieston Crane + BBC building + 'Glasgow Armadillo'

Glasgow Tours

With on average 2-3 architecture tours per week this month we again hope to post feedback as in previous years. So far the strongest feelings seem to be despair at the lack of integration of projects along the Clyde, a lack of landscape concept and the lack of upfront infrastructure, I've got to say this matched views expressed in my article on current development along the Clyde. Glasgow Harbour came out pretty well, the strip of landscape there is simple and enjoyable; the unfocused spaces around the SECC and Science Centre fared less well and were strongly criticised. Views welcomed : info@glasgowarchitecture.co.uk 100906

Cheapside images

Glasgow mixed-use development images added 100906

Glasgow Architects : first project outside UK

gm+ad architects' Sligo building - new image 050906

Luck of the Draw
Draw Architects' housing for Elphinstone: QD2 Glasgow

Scottish National Indoor Arena
Brief may increase from £24m to £70m incl. Velodrome. Scotland's bid to host 2014 Commonwealth Games may of course impact: Sports Arena Glasgow

Glasgow Show - NORD

19 Aug - 8 Oct : Glasgow Exhibitions

Glasgow Harbour - GH2 News

Progress Shots of Glasgow Harbour Phase Two - online 010806

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 banks of Clyde to be transformed into a 'sustainable village' of 1600 homes by Glasgow-based developers, Elphinstone, as reported in 2004. Concept designs for this development originally by RMJM Architects. 200706

Glasgow News: Kelvingrove Museum Opens

Scottish Museum refurbished by BDP Architects - 110706: Glasgow Museum

Sagrada Familia to use Scottish Stone

Stone from Clashach Quarry, Moray, used to complete parts of Sagrada Familia

Glasgow School of Art Campus
Announcement of probable demolition of around 4-6 sixties concrete buildings around the north and western sides of Mackintosh's Glasgow School of Art building

RIBA Awards News - 2/3 in Glasgow

JKS workshops - Gordon Murray + Alan Dunlop Architects
Maggie's Inverness - Page/Park Architects
Saltire Centre - Building Design Partnership
RIBA Awards News

Glasgow Exhibition
Marcel Breuer Exhibition: The Lighthouse 16 Jun – 27 Aug

Scottish Ballet - Images

Glasgow building for Scottish Ballet by Malcolm Fraser Architects 220506

Saltire Centre - Exclusive Photos

The new "focus of learning and student services" on the Glasgow Caledonian University campus 030506

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

Library Landmark Lights
Leader of Glasgow City Council to officially switch on new Mitchell Library lights

Clydebank College

Part of former John Brown shipyard, Jenkins & Marr Architects: Clydebank College

No.5 Blythswood Square
Rennie Mackintosh designed entry refurbished by Macdonald Kinnaird

Xscape

Snow Centre at Braehead Shopping Centre - Xscape Glasgow

Aurora News
Glasgow's largest speculative office development for decades: Aurora Glasgow

Glasgow Harbour Tower
Plenty of discussion in the Press re the proposals by Peel Holdings for the site near Zaha Hadid's proposed Glasgow Transport Museum, which has also predictably created news re its cost increment. The proposals include a supercasino - as per the Ibrox Stadium and the SECC schemes - with Glasgow competing against cities such as Blackpool, London and Manchester for the single UK supercasino permit currently agreed: Glasgow Harbour

Zaha Hadid - Kirkcaldy
Exclusive images of Zaha Hadid's first UK building

Glasgow Collaborative Effort with China
Sentinel Building by gm+ad impressed the Architectural Society of China: PR

Miller Partnership Projects
Brit Oval Stadium + Manchester United Stadium by Glasgow-based architects

Demolition?
As widely expected Cumbernauld town centre came top of Channel 4 TV 'Demolition' programme poll for UK buildings with the Scottish Parliament 8th

SportsScotland HQ
Reports that the Scottish Sport Headquarters may relocate from Edinburgh Park to a site adjacent to the new National Stadium in Parkhead, east Glasgow

Dynamic News
Winner for the Dynamic Places Awards Built Environment category: Edinburgh Quay

Bell Street
Recent images upon completion - Bell Street

GIA Winners

Winners of GIA Awards

Glasgow Sheriff Court
Parr Architects: Scottish Youth Theatre / Rialto Court Shopping

Jellyfish

SECC Arena by Foster & Partners unveiled

Glasgow Tours
Glasgow Tour page refurbished due to ever-increasing number of projects

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