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Glasgow News : March 2005

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GH2 Gordon Murray and Alan Dunlop architects are delighted to announce that their £70m project for Kippax Ltd/ Dandara Ltd at Glasgow Harbour Phase II has been granted planning approval: some exclusive images, more went online on tuesday. materials and height colour drawing online late wednesday 22.03.05 Jobs News The Scottish Architecture market appears to be short of recruits: for practices that wish to recruit Architects and Technicians in Scotland please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it to ask for our rates: an advert can be placed on either the Edinburgh or Glasgow news pages - or both - for as many weeks as you wish until a position is filled We have launched a new Glasgow Architect Jobs page - carrying Anders Elite positions - focusing on Glasgow but also Edinburgh, Dundee, Aberdeen & Stirling. This will compement the existing Scottish Architecture Jobs page - carrying BaR positions Miracles Magnus Linklater put the case for Enric Miralles at the Blueprint Award for Architect of the Year 2004 RSA Exhibition New Architecture for Arts - Royal Scottish Academy: Ric Russell, Malcolm Fraser and Richard Murphy EUROPAN Architecture Competition The registration period for Europan 8 Architecture Competition commences on 7 Mar 2005. We campaigned in 2003 / 2004 for UK sites to be included in this current Europan and CABE announced early 2005 that UK sites will now be included. Note, our Architecture Competitions page is regularily updated and globally high ranking Forthside Images of Robert Adam Architects' Western Harbour proposals, Edinburgh Café in the Square, George Square, Glasgow Architects are invited to register an interest in participating in a design competition as Lead Consultants for the design and procurement of the above building. Upon receipt of expressions of interest, a brief including a pre-qualification questionnaire will be issued. The return date for completed questionnaires (not tenders) is 1 Apr, 12noon. The submitted questionnaires are then subjected to an intensive evaluation process after which a shortlist of up to 6 lead consultants will be given an honorarium of £4,000 to submit design proposals for the design competition Expressions of interest to: Veronica Bolan on 0141 287 9968 or to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Interchange Competition This year's RIAS Sketch Design Competition (£6,000) for architects resident in Scotland, is for a dynamic structure for the Underground and Bus Station interchange, with new offices and retail opportunities in Govan, or a site for housing/mixed use between the transport hub and the Clyde ferry point. Sketches on one A1 landscape board are to be submitted to: Liz McCaffrey, RIAS Competition (Govan), c/o Pearce Institute, 840 Govan Rd, Glasgow, G51 3UU, to arrive by 4pm, 27 Apr. For more info / CD, contact Gail Millar: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Strathclyde University Revamp Four new buildings including a new sports complex & biomedical science centre in Cathedral St plus thirteen buildings will get major refurbishments in the most ambitious estates plan - £200m - of any Scottish university Unicorn environmental impact analysis - Unicorn Tower new images Vantage 308 Clyde St by Jewitt Arschavir & Wilkie Architects Expensive Squint? Finnieston bridge on Pacific Quay by Gillespies now expected to cost £20.3m, up from original £8-10m CZWG Queen Elizabeth Square images Make v Keppie Forth Valley £250m PFI Hospital at Larbert: Make Architecture / Skanska and Keppie Design / Laing O'Rourke compete for major building at Royal Scottish National Hospital site. Ken Shuttleworth's Make are already working in Scotland at Granton Harbour Disrepair Despair Glasgow City Council Report proposing crack down on landlords who let their properties fall into disrepair by using statutory powers such as purchase orders: nearly 200 buildings require urgent work Herald Building Refurbished A listed Herald building, creating some discussion, e-mails welcome Red Road to be Flattened Glasgow Housing Association has announced plans to pull down the city's notorious Red Road scheme as part of a £60m redevelopment. The eight skyscrapers, once the tallest in Europe, are due to be demolished over the next decade Addition: Timber Structure Scottish Timber House More Design Guides Argyll and Bute Council is producing a practical design guide that "will promote good quality, sustainable and contemporary building design suited to the landscape, towns and villages of Argyll and Bute". Really? David Douglas Centre picture from the architect Eastern Birds Simpson & Brown Architects' SOC headquarters, Aberlady 03.03.05 Maggies Inverness by Page & Park Architects 02.03.05 Sebastian Tombs: A+DS RIAS Chief Exec / Secretary appointed as Chief Executive of Architecture and Design Scotland; RIAS looking for replacement 01.03.05 Edinburgh Castle Gareth Hoskins Architects win Edinburgh Castle project Foster wins SECC II Foster & Partners win concert arena at Glasgow SECC site

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