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--october 2007



Andrew Doolan Awards
The Andy Doolan Awards take place 2 Nov : we will post winner Saturday am: Andrew Doolan Award

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

RMJM college building
Suffolk building

London's Learning
Exhibition at London's Building Centre: gm+ad's Hazelwood school to be exhibited as one of nine national projects and the only Scottish exemplar school

Michelle Mone's new HQ
East Kilbride building by ink design for MJM International complete

Silverburn Opens
Massive retail development opened 25 Oct: Silverburn Mall, Pollok

Bridge to Nowhere
Glasgow News : bridge up for £50m TV vote

GSA Floodlighting
Glasgow School Of Art Floodlighting scheme submitted by Page/Park Architects

Clyde St Hotel Approved
gm+ad architects’ Clyde Street Hotel Building project granted Planning Consent

New St Andrews Building

Reiach And Hall Architects plans submitted for The University Of St Andrews: medical and science building on land to north of the Physics Building

Whitelaw St Glasgow
Plans submitted by Elder & Cannon Architects for Maryhill Housing Association: residential development at Whitelaw St / Glencloy St

Roses Awards
Most Roses Design Award Winners this year were from northwest England

Edinburgh Zoo Thwarted
Land sale to help subsidise £72m Edinburgh Zoo masterplan blocked

Saltcoats Competition
RIAS Scottish Architecture Competition - North Ayrshire

New Mull Theatre
CiAO’s Mull Theatre’s new Production Centre

St Peter’s Hotel, Cardross
Developer Urban Splash reported to be considering buying St Peter’s Seminary site for conversion into hotel, plus homes, with possibility of architecture competition

Sheppard Robson Glasgow
Sheppard Robson – Glasgow office opening in October

Aurora Awards
Cooper Cromar win awards including BCO Award for Aurora building 121007

2 houses in kilmacolm
Glasgow houses by ataSTUDIO - Kilmacolm, Bothwell & East Kilbride

SMC
Press reports in recent days suggest that ‘Scotland’s largest architects practice’ might be taken over by Stewart McColl with a private equity firm, after merger talks between SMC Group and Aukett Fitzroy Robinson appeared to collapse

The Elements

Livingston building 121007

NORD Blocks for Boozers
Two blocks of flats by NORD Architecture for Boozers Ltd submitted for planning at 176 Fulton St, Glasgow

Stevenson College

New music & performing arts centre, the Music Box by RMJM: Stevenson College

GIA News
GIA Awards - 43 entries, one up on 2006. Photographic competition to launch soon

BCI Awards
Bridge Arts Centre wins BCI Regeneration Award, London 101007

Castle Tioram - Vision

Castle Tioram transformed from a ruin - as an image only

Fife Eco-Town?
Where better to have a development touted as Scotland’s first ‘Eco-Town’ than in the home county of our Prime Minister, the man who has promoted the concept. But is this a genuine ‘Eco-Town’ or yet another example of greenwash? Fife building news

Inverness Airport - News
Highlands & Islands Airports to proceed with appointment of design team, following initial scheme design: Inverness Airport

Inverness Building
Scottish Natural Heritage HQ - best corporate workplace in UK: BCO Awards 2007

Scottish Architects in India
Lewis & Hickey opens office in India

Stirling Prize
Stirling Prize winner

YAYA 2007
Scottish architects amongst 20 Architect of the Year finalists: Graeme Massie

Public Building Procurement
Further to this week’s attack by Unison on Scotland’s love affair with PPP now a Scottish Parliament Inquiry into funding methods for public sector capital investment projects. Perhaps the tide is turning?

Zero Carbon Exemption
More encouragement for sustainable houses as stamp duty exemption for zero carbon homes comes into force. The government has revised the official technical guide to compliance with the Code for Sustainable Homes

Commonwealth Games - Glasgow
RMJM's 2014 Commonwealth Games athletes village

Scottish Awards
Scottish Architecture Awards Database joint project by RIAS / A+DS now online: www.scottisharchitectureawards.com. Awards range from €50,000 Mies van der Rohe Award to the British Sundial Society Awards!

Fettes College building
New school building by Glasgow's Page & Park for Fettes College

Strathtummel house
Planning approval for Richard Murphy Architects' house on north side of Loch Tummel

Carbuncle Cup
BD’s Shortlist of 7 includes Holiday Inn Express in Westhill, nr Aberdeen by Edward Potter Associates

Waterloo Place
New photos of BL Developments building, Edinburgh by Morgan McDonnell Architecture



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