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St Andrew Square: Result
St Andrew Square buildings on Scottish Provident site: full planning approval for £50m development by Glasgow's gareth hoskins architects + CDA

Hazelwood School
Progress shots of gm+ad architects' Glasgow school

Highland Housing Fair

Over 120 architects/developers registered for HHF Competition: 27 plots - allocations made, each has 5 to 21 entrants in competition: Highland Housing Fair

Clyde Street Hotel
Clydeview submitted plans for new hotel at 236-246 Clyde St by gm+ad Architects

Carbon Emissions - Jack McConnell
Scottish Executive publish planning guidance for renewable energy developments: requirement on all new developments to reduce carbon emissions by at least 15%

Napier University Expansion
Napier University appoints RMJM to design its £55m Sighthill campus

Architecture Awards 2006
EAA Awards winners - a good year for Malcolm Fraser Architects
Building of the Year Award: Scottish Storytelling Centre
Regeneration/Conservation Award: HBoS
Small Projects Award: Garden Room at 27 Hermitage Gardens

Glasgow Waterfront
John Norquist, president of Congress for New Urbanism, said predominance of steel & glass structures along Glasgow's riverside ran risk of becoming banal

Dundee Schools

1 new secondary + 6 new primaries by Holmes Partnership : Dundee Schools

gm + ad wins international award
JKS Workshops receives award from Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture & Design: project put forward for the award by architect Massimiliano Fuksas

Bar Ten News
Controversy re proposals at Bar Ten but little seems to be afoot, indeed the
owners have contacted Ben Kelly to discuss plans, petition online: Glasgow Bar

'Unknown Extension Proposal
'
William Kinnimonth house - 17 Essex Road: proposals by CiAO Architects receive planning approval: Edinburgh house

Archigram exhibition/workshop - Edinburgh
Proposal by AIA for Archigram Exhibition during festival time + Archigram Workshops at Edinburgh Waterfront, with Dennis Crompton from New York & other members such as Peter Cook on the cards, possibly in Architecture Week...

Architecture Week - no Scottish Guide
... But no-one is coordinating Architecture Week in Scotland this year. The Lighthouse received funding in the last 2 years to co-ordinate & compile a Scottish guide for Architecture week events but this funding is no longer available (the English Arts Council fund it in England, the Scottish Arts Council stopped funding architecture about 5 years ago)

The Future for Housing in Scotland

Glasgow event : 27 Mar, one-day conference

Saltire Awards 2007
Invitations open to Saltire Awards: Terms of Entry + Deadline

Scottish Planning Awards
Aquilibrium Campbeltown
Scottish Quality in Planning Awards Winner: Aquilibrium by Page \ Park

301 St Vincent Street
250,000sqft office building proposed by Castlemore (West Midlands), the developer of Edinburgh's former GPO - Waverley Gate - on 1.3 acre car park site

Bombarded by Red Tape

Property professionals - architects, developers, contractors, etc. - are being bombarded with new Scottish Building Regulations

Skye house
rural design building
Skye house by rural design, designed with focus on sustainable construction

Glasgow Recruitment
Glasgow Architects Job : gm+ad architects

Scottish Architecture Competition
Castle Precision Engineering, an engineering company that manufactures complex components for use in aircraft engines, plan a 10,000sqm development in 4 phases on a 20 acre greenfield site in East Renfrewshire. Architects are invited to express interest. Honoraria of £5000. Expressions of interest by 28 Mar, shortlist selection by 18 Apr: RIAS

Elder & Cannon - Flats
Plans submitted by Tumpher Ltd for 51 flats + retail at 45-47 York St & 351 Argyle St

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