Glasgow News - July 2008: Buildings in Scotland
July 2008
Glasgow Development, ScotlandScottish Buildings Shortlisted Four buildings in Scotland shortlisted for World Architecture Festival Awards City Slums : 'Govanhill hits rock bottom' Glasgow Council demand rogue landlords be jailed if they flout new laws aimed at tackling the city's slums. Communities Minister Stewart Maxwell visited Govanhill in the South Side and saw overcrowded and cockroach-infested flats. But failure of a private landlord to comply with registration requirements at no stage involves ultimate sanction of prison, making enforcement difficult. Funding for emergency council action has been mooted with money clawed back once landlords have been located. Large migrant communities are being exploited by owners letting out neglected properties. RIAS Honours Robin Harper MSP & Dame Barbara Kelly CBE : RIAS Honorary Fellows 28 Jul Scottish Architects Major Beijing Olympic Building complete : RMJM Architects Glasgow Architects kraftarchitecture added to Glasgow Architect listings Housing Crisis With new build starts in Scotland down by almost 50% in the last quarter and around 15,000 redundancies, Homes for Scotland has called for the Government's Housing Supply Task Force to meet and address the critical situation in Scottish housebuilding Broomielaw Offices Planning application by gm+ad for Kenmore Property Group: 223,610sqft of Grade A space on the Broomielaw at Snodgrass Mill - pair of blocks around a courtyard Edinburgh Office Supply Despite the housing slump & global credit crunch construction is increasing in the capital: Edinburgh News Glasgow Office New image of 2 West Regent Street : RMJM - 21 Jul Stewart Milne Group About 289 jobs could be lost, around 20% of its UK workforce, due to housing downturn Fife Biomass Plant £100m 45MW biomass heat & electricity power station to be built at Tullis Russell paper-making factory, Markinch. It will generate enough electricity to light a city the size of Dundee once complete in 2011. Importantly the Scottish Government will contribute £8.1m to the facility construction costs, ensuring they get closer to their alternative energy targets (31% electricity demand from renewable sources by 2011). This site fully supports this firm government action. Meanwhile Europe's largest onshore windfarm - the 152-turbine 548MW Clyde windfarm - has been approved by the Scottish Government. Housing Slowdown During the three months from April to June 2008 the number of new private homes started in Scotland down by 46%: 3,043, down from 5,590 in 2007 Union Square Miller Construction completes Phase 1 of £250m Union Square development, Aberdeen. 700,000sqft retail-led regeneration, Phase one for Hammerson incl. new bus station. Phase two incl. retail + 203-bed hotel underway, to complete next Autumn Shawbridge Blocks Down Two multi-storey tower blocks demolished at 12 Riverford Road & 21 Riverbank Street for Glasgow Housing Association. Two more multi-storeys at 124 & 142 Shawbridge Street are due for demolition soon No Scottish Winners Stirling Prize Shortlist: BBC Scotland & Pier Arts Centre don't make the cut - 17 Jul Not So Fair News that the Highland Housing Fair will not go ahead this year, unsurprising given the state of the housing / property sectors 17 Jul SIX Awards University of Strathclyde Architecture Awards News 17 Jul Informatics Photos Progress on Edinburgh Informatics : Bennetts Associates 14 Jul Ratho Roof Edinburgh International Climbing Centre's problems apparently at "crisis point" 13 Jul Broomfield Estate Contemporary properties in Perthshire: Broomfield Estate by Zebrano 13 Jul SIX Student Awards SIX Student Awards for Architecture 2008 now on at The Lighthouse: Glasgow Events Speirs Locks Speirs Locks : make Glasgow Architects Young and Gault Added to Glasgow Architects Listings UNESCO / Caltongate Apparently the Government's decision not to call the Caltongate plans in has made Unesco want to review Edinburgh World Heritage Site status & send a mission Grand Designs Hope house : ICOSIS Architects Lake District Building Grizedale Resource Centre : Sutherland Hussey Queen Opens QMUC Queen Margaret University News A Holiday in Glenrothes Photographic Exhibition celebrating Glenrothes by artist Sylvia Grace Borda Edinburgh Offices The Cube : Allan Murray Architects New Glasgow Offices Cuprum : Aedas Forthside Stirling Forthside Offices : RMJM RIBA Awards RIBA Awards : Two in Scotland - Pier Arts Centre & BBC Scotland Haptic: Awakening the Senses Lighthouse exhibition features work by Shigeru Ban + Toyo Ito |
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