Demolish Apsley House for Champagne!
New building proposal:

IVG and HBG Properties development at 29 Wellington St, Glasgow

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

Glasgow Architects
Glasgow Architects listings annual deadline

The HELIX
Massive ‘Kelpie’ heads set to be built near Falkirk as The HELIX receives £25m lottery funding: canal link reconnecting Forth & Clyde Canal to the Forth Estuary plus creation of two 30m high ‘Kelpie’ heads based on the mythical Scots creatures

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

RIBA Carbon Tracker
RIBA launch carbon emissions online forum for practices to track building emissions from design to operation. Eventually accreditation of practices committed to carbon management will be implemented. Proposals being developed for a RIBA ‘Carbon Conscious Practice’ scheme - RIBA CarbonBuzz - will recognise design performance, but will also require participating practices to publish annual project sheets on design & operational energy use. Data will inform benchmarking, policy & research, particularly in aligning design predictions with operational emissions. Practices involved at the launch stage include Aedas, BDP, dRMM, Hamilton Architects, HOK and make.

BRE Approved Certifiers
BRE Scotland launch 2 new certification schemes: homes and non-domestic buildings

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

Carbuncle Awards
Voting closes this Sunday. Organiser Penny Lewis said: “We are not having a laugh at the expense of the frustrated residents, but trying to provoke a debate about how we move forward. Some politicians are very complacent”: Carbuncle Awards

Trumped!
Donald Trump's £1bn golf resort approved 7 votes to 4 by Aberdeenshire Council

Designing Places Awards
Homes for Scotland launches new award scheme: Designing Places Awards

Malcolm on Basil
Malcolm Fraser reviews Basil Spence’s oeuvre:
http://www.sundayherald.com/search/display.var.1775254.0.faultless_towers.php

St Peter’s Seminary

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

Scottish & Newcastle Offices
Controversial move to demolish strong RMJM-designed former S+N Headquarters

Applecross Awards
Scottish house builder wins at UK house building ‘Oscars’: What House? Awards

Commonwealth Games Stadium

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

Glasgow Transport Museum

Glasgow Riverside Museum - new images 16 Nov 2007

SEPA Offices Aberdeen
Waterfront Offices & Labs by Keppie : Aberdeen News

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

Too Much Work?
According to CEC’s Kenneth MacKinnon "there's just too much work about”: Edinburgh News

Carbuncle Awards
Nominations closed. Towns put forward include Paisley, Coatbridge and Wishaw. Controversially recent developments such as Springfield Quay’s casino, Glasgow Harbour, The Metropole and Edinburgh’;s Upper Strand come in for a bashing. Oh, and the Scottish Parliament of course: www.thecarbuncles.co.uk
The shortlist for the Most Dismal Town, Most Disappointing Building and Worst Planning Decision were announced on 15 Nov at which point voting opened again. The shortlist has been drawn up by a panel of judges based on nominations made by the general public. The last votes will be counted on 25 Nov and the Plook on the Plinth will be handed over 26 Nov

Paramount Building

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

East Lothian Building
Rural offices by Michael Laird Architects

Scottish Home Awards 2008
Panel to be chaired by Margaret Curran MSP: Scottish Home Awards

Holyrood Abbey Church
Latest Malcolm Fraser building completed in Edinburgh

Context Interiors
Edinburgh Architect opens Context Interiors - home interiors shop

Saltire Housing Awards 2007
Saltire Awards presented by Linda Fabiani, with lecture by Professor Isi Metzstein

Craigleith House
Page\Park Architects’ Fettes College building - brief review

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

Marischal College redevelopment

Copyright: Aberdeen City Council
Contract for Aberdeen Council HQ awarded to Holmes Partnership

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

New Biomass-heated School
Seaview Primary School in Monifieth to use biomass heating under Angus Council’s strategy to reduce CO2 emissions + rainwater recycling for toilet flushing and solar panels to aid water heating

Bio-Medical Building
Planning submission by Sheppard Robson for site at The Todd Centre, Taylor St/Cathedral St: Bio-Medical building, link bridges, demolition of two existing buildings and alterations to Robertson building for University of Strathclyde, validated 301007

Andy Doolan Awards
And the winner is….Pier Arts Centre Orkney : Reiach and Hall Architects

photo © Gavin Fraser, Alastair Peebles
Andrew Doolan Award

EHQ

Michael Laird Architects’ EHQ project, Edinburgh

Silverburn Opens

Silverburn Mall images

Lottery Win
South Ayrshire Council’s Girvan Gateway wins Living Landmarks shortlisting but Perth & Kinross Council’s The Calyx loses out

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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