Glasgow News: archive

e-architect
New website with pages on key architecture and architects around the globe:
World Architecture
Sage building : Foster & Partners jun 06
Scottish House : NORD architects jun 06
Beetham Tower : photos online aug 06

Aberdeen News
HTA Architects' £500m Regeneration + £25m Shell HQ building + Bon Accord Masterplan & Aberdeen Market overhaul, all approved : Aberdeen Buildings 250906

Leith Docks
Yet another masterplan architect - RTKL - named for latest Forth Ports masterplan

Also in Edinburgh, BDP + Allan Murray Architects named as designers for St James Centre expansion masterplan, to complete 2007

Scottish Architects swallowed up
SMC Alsop promised more architects would join - major scottish architects reported to have amalgamated with Stewart McColl's fast expanding group, online soon

Merchant Building - Images

Photos of this refreshingly different Glasgow housing building by Gholami Baines Architects as it nears completion : 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 Photos

Some photos above added in last few weeks


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 work for this major exhibition, alongside practices including West 8, Martha Schwartz, Thomas Heatherwick, Adjaye Associates & MacCormac Jamieson Prichard 210906

Glasgow College

North Glasgow College - new RMJM Architects image

Edmonstone House Hospital
Allan Murray Architects' Edmonstone House project - Edinburgh 220906

make - Westfield
Make’s Edinburgh studio have submitted detailed and outline planning applications for a mixed use development in Westfield, Edinburgh 220906

Glasgow Harbour

Progress shots of Glasgow Harbour 200906

Glasgow Bridge : 'Clyde Arc'

Finnieston Bridge opened 180906

Edinburgh City Council
Latest photos of CEC Edinburgh City Council HQ as it nears completion

Glasgow Architects
Gareth Hoskins Architects shortlisted for the ‘Building Design - Health Building Architect of the Year Award 2006’. Shortlist:
Gareth Hoskins / HLM Architects / Hopkins Architects / MAAP Architects
The award will be announced 2 Nov at the Hilton Hotel, London
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Gareth Hoskins has been appointed design champion for the entire NHS north of the border. The high-profile role comes as part of a deal which has seen Architecture and Design Scotland agree a three-year framework deal with NHS Scotland.

Glasgow Buildings - Access
16 + 17 Sep : Doors Open Day Glasgow

Glasgow News

Recent photos added to the site: 160906
Finnieston Crane + BBC building + 'Glasgow Armadillo'
More online in next few days

There is a step change in quality of new photos on the website due to purchase of a Panasonic FX-01 Lumix 28/14m camera with Leica lense, thanks to advice from architect Al Cook. All pages on the website have also been reformatted over the last 3 months to a central 500pixel wide table format to work with wide screen monitors. Due to the birth of e-architect.co.uk - to take the expanding information received over the years, and to allow the resource to grow - thousands of links have been added or revised. To give an idea of the size of e-architect there are 18,000 links on the site compared to 12,000 & 19,000 on the Glasgow & Edinburgh sites respectively. The e-architect site will bring a new audience to Scottish architecture which I'm sure will be broadly welcomed. Comments on these changes welcome, also any broken links not picked up by my software and manual checks. Adrian Welch 160906

Cardross Seminary - News

The aj of 140906 carries an article by Andrew Mead on the now infamous Cardross building: we hope to carry some response to this in the next few days

Glasgow Architecture Bookshop

RIAS @ The Lighthouse bookshop launched 070906, following controversial demise earlier in the year of the RIAS bookshop at the Mac. We attended but have no info to post on various initiatives and relaunch of sust, we don't get digital PR from The Lighthouse, but there are various Mackintosh Festival events / exhibitions on 110906

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

Tesco Town Troubles
New planning application submitted by Tesco for retail village near Patrick Cross reducing number of student flats by a third and car parking by almost 10%

New Prep School building
Application granted for Glasgow architects Page / Park : Fettes College

Edinburgh News
Images of Zone Architects' Market Street Arches; Keith Hunter photos of gm+ad architects' housing; SoCo glass dome by Allan Murray Architects: Building News

Cheapside images

Glasgow mixed-use development images added 100906

GIA Awards
Entries to the 2006 GIA Design Awards now invited

Glasgow Architects : first project outside UK

gm+ad architects' Sligo building - new image 050906

Luck of the Draw
BD run belated report on Draw Architects' housing for Elphinstone just west of SECC. The QD2 Urban Village - previously being designed by RMJM Architects in Edinburgh received outline planning permission for designs by Mark Bingham, former Associate at RMJM in Edinburgh. BD report that one of the towers could reach 37 storeys making it the tallest residential building in Scotland. QD2 is due to start in 2007 completing in 2012: QD2 Glasgow - as reported on this page 200706

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

Scottish Building News
- KSS Design Group working on Scotland's first 6-star hotel at Taymouth Castle
- Smith Scott Mullan + Gareth Hoskins Architects + Broadway Malyan Architects working on £120m Raploch regeneration
- Hurd Rolland complete William Rankine Building at Edinburgh's Kings Buildings
- Wylie Shanks Architects appointed to £2m High School of Glasgow Science Labs & £4.5m redevelopment of former Govan Police Station
- Mott MacDonald + Sarah Wigglesworth Architects to advise on environmental design of Scottish Schools
- HTA Architects working on £500m masterplan for six Aberdeen communities
- Bennetts Associates working on £16m Matthew Hay Complex, Aberdeen
- Reiach and Hall Architects working on PFI £70m Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow
- HLM Architects working on the partner Victoria Hospital, also PFI
- Tesco's 'first Eco store' in Scotland goes on site in Wick
- Sutherland Hussey's Mansfield Park project, Glasgow, receives planning permission
- QMUC structure almost complete on A1 approach to Edinburgh
- Unite student housing shell in place on Lady Lawson St, Edinburgh
- No Scottish buildings in Stirling Prize 2006 shortlist

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