Scottish 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



Haymarket Station : new images

Haymarket : new images

Glasgow School of Art

Dubai Architecture

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