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Stirling Offices by Michael Laird Architects

GIA competition
Glasgow Institute of Architects launches photography competition: www.glasgowinstituteofarchitects.com/2008_photo_comp.html

Ravenscraig Sports Centre
Sports facility at former Ravenscraig steelworks site approved by North Lanarkshire Council

Cromarty East Church
Former BBC Restoration Village finalist to get £641k Heritage Lottery Fund grant. £1.2m restoration of Cromarty East Church, on the Black Isle, to start spring 2008

Forth Crossing
Forth Replacement to be cable-stayed bridge upstream of existing road bridge

RIAS News
Neil Baxter appointed RIAS Secretary

Silverhills Housing

Photo: Keith Hunter
Scottish Housing, Roseneath by anderson bell christie

Garrison House

Refurbished by Lee Boyd, on the Isle of Cumbrae, Ayrshire: Garrison House

Up from 22
Stunning performance by RMJM as they climb from 22nd to 8th in BD’s Largest 100 World Practices (mostly due to merging with Hillier)

Aviemore Resort
Cairngorm National Park Authority planning committee approve multi-million pound ski centre expansion plus 160 new homes & 2 new supermarkets. The Highland Resort Masterplan is backed by Macdonald Hotels, Tulloch Homes & Bank of Scotland

Scottish House
Grand Designs' return visit to Studio KAP's Leijser House

The Hub at Pacific Quay

Cooper Cromar's The Hub building at Pacific Quay

Speirs Locks

Make Architects appointed masterplanners: Speirs Locks

Ravenscraig Start
Work starts on £44m Motherwell College campus at Ravenscraig

Clyde Gateway URC
Glasgow Council’s Executive Committee approves Urban Regeneration Company establishment to deliver Clyde Gateway business plan incl. 10,000 new homes, 400,000sqm of business & commercial property, 50,000sqm of retail & services facilities and new infrastructure. £62m funding announced by Scottish Government. Proposed to operate until 2029

Bellgrove Controversy
Reports that The Lighthouse and A&DS condemn result after it emerged that Dawn’s bid sealed victory despite Urban Splash’s bid being judged best: Bellgrove Competition

National Portrait Gallery Funding
Ministers to provide £5.1m to £17.6m redevelopment of Portrait Gallery

Scottish Timber
Ministerial Launch of Timber Development Programme & "New Timber Architecture in Scotland" Publication by Peter Wilson - Scottish Architecture News

Sullivan Report Launch
Low Carbon Building Standards Strategy for Scotland : Sullivan Report

Trump Resort
The spectacle continues with Martin Ford, the councillor who sealed the vote against Trumps’ golf resort, being sacked

Stirling Prize Change
Following controversy over 2007 Prize where 4 out of 6 shortlisted weren't in the UK, Stirling Prize 2008 buildings have to be built or designed in UK

Aberdeen Stadium
Site proposed for new £53m Aberdeen stadium

NORD win
Glasgow architects NORD win Urban Splash’s Stoke competition in England

Broomielaw Pavilions
Wilson Bowden appointed to build & design 30,000sqft of new pavilions along the Clyde’s north bank near the Kingston Bridge, housing cafes and restaurants, servicing the financial district and bringing the Clyde to life. The Clyde pavilions could eventually extend west to Anderston Quay & east to Clyde Place

National Showground
BDP, Foster & Partners, HOK + make shortlisted: Scottish National Showground

Data Farm
Internet Villages International plans world's first green-powered Data Farm

Dundee to Build Council Houses
Dundee City Council considering new house building programme. Meanwhile in Edinburgh the depths of the affordable homes problem is visible with over 1000 applicants this week for a single council house

Inverness Theatre
Eden Court Theatre project by Page \ Park complete

A+DS View on Haymarket
More criticism from A+DS of this major development at the western entry to city centre

Aberdeen Library
Schmidt Hammer Lassen’s University of Aberdeen Library approved

New Aberdeen stadium
Report to be submitted at end of Dec : Aberdeen Buildings News

Last Resort for Trump?
Rejected resort proposals to be called in by the Scottish Executive 041207. Meanwhile Ian Paisley has encouraged Trump to bring his resort to County Antrim

Scottish Spa Hotel
Plans by Aurora Hotels for £80m hotel & spa-village, at Glenbervie House Hotel, near Larbert: 200-bed five-star hotel, spa, leisure centre, luxury penthouses & apartments

City Wharf Glasgow

Gordon Murray and Alan Dunlop Architects receive planning approval for over 850 Clyde waterfront apartments: City Wharf Glasgow

Scottish Architects

Chengdu Museum by Sutherland Hussey

Ian Simpson Hotel

Charles Price, in the weekend’s Sunday Herald: "I asked architect Ian Simpson, at our first meeting with council officers, to design an iconic building rather than just another soulless skyscraper": Argyle Street Hotel

BBC

image by peter cook
Letter in BD from David Mackay explaining that with Deyan Sudjic and Ricky Burdett he voted for Chipperfield rather than Mecanoo, who were favoured by the BBC

Spence
More words on Basil Spence from a key contemporary scottish architect, this time by Richard Murphy in December’s RIBAJ who praises his exhibition work but notes he “certainly knew how to work the system”

m/8 creative design

Royston housing - m/8 creative design added to Glasgow Architects listings

Heritage
Article by Alan Dunlop in AJ of 22Nov re Heritage groups: Edinburgh’s EWH get slated and ICOMOS-UK – “who are these people?” These organisations’ “drive to preserve specific buildings or areas in aspic is insular, self-seeking and regressive”

No to Trump Course
Donald Trump golf resort proposal sensationally knocked into long grass

Bellgrove Competition
Page & Park beat Make, Gareth Hoskins (with Urban Splash) and Elder & Cannon in a competition for Glasgow regeneration project

Scottish Renewables Target Up
New target to generate 50% of Scotland's electricity from renewables by 2020, with interim target of 31% by 2011, set by the Scottish Government: previous target was 40% by 2020



Highlights from November News:
Demolish Apsley House!
New building proposal:

IVG & HBG Properties invited property agents to compete in the 'virtual' demolition of Apsley House, 29 Wellington St, Glasgow. In reality it will make way for a new 75,000 sqft £35m Grade A office development. Demolition of the current Apsley House started in October, due to complete Dec 2007. Planning application submitted Jan 2007

Elphinstone Place News
Delays to 39-storey Elphinstone Place are due to changes in building regulations, according to the developer, specifically fire safety & insulation standards

Radiance Glasgow

Guerrilla Lighting by BDP’s Lighting Group

Housing Shortfall
Increase from existing 25,000 new houses per year to 35,000 demanded for Scotland. Communities & Sport Minister said the “current rate of new house building - almost 25,000 new houses last year - is simply inadequate. This is why we have proposed a national goal to increase new housing supply to 35,000 a year by the middle of the next decade”. It’s essential the majority of this supply is located in dense developments on brownfield land; the planning system also requires immediate root & branch reform: Scottish housing

Commonwealth Games Organisation
Chief Exec & operating body proposed by Glasgow Council: Commonwealth Games

St Peter’s Seminary

ACAVA join Urban Splash & the Marquess of Bute as potential developers of the crumbling Cardross Seminary

Commonwealth Games Stadium

Sport Concepts with 3DReid: National Indoor Sports Arena & Velodrome

Glasgow Transport Museum

Glasgow Riverside Museum - new images 16 Nov 2007

GIA Awards - Winner
GIA Awards 2007 Results

photo by Keith Hunter
Castlemilk building : restoration of Castlemilk House Stables by Elder & Cannon

Argyle St Hotel Approved

Ian Simpson Architects’ six-star Glasgow hotel plans approved

Craigton Road Approved

Planning approval for gm+ad architects' Craigton Road Social Services Building

Clyde Arc Award

photo © keith hunter
Saltire Award for Civil Engineering winner : Clyde Arc

Paramount Building

gm+ad architects’ Odeon Building project granted Planning Consent 061107

Glasgow Won
Commonwealth Games come to Glasgow

University of Paisley

University of Paisley’s Ayr campus by RMJM

Buchanan Galleries
Planning approval for Buchanan Galleries expansion, subject to approval by Scottish Executive

2 West Regent Street
£15m Glasgow office development by RMJM

EHQ

Michael Laird Architects’ EHQ project, Edinburgh

Silverburn Opens

Silverburn Mall images

Ravenscraig Sports Building
£29m Ravenscraig sports facility by HOK Sport gets £7m funding

New Glasgow housing

£4m Page & Park Gorbals housing proposed at former Clyde Salvage Yard

Gillespie, Kidd & Coia Exhibition
The Lighthouse: Gillespie, Kidd & Coia

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