Glasgow News Mar 2007, St Andrew Square Building, Hazelwood Scotland

Glasgow News : March 2007

Glasgow Development, Scotland

e-architect Global architecture / architects: World Architecture - images added daily St Andrew Square: Result St Andrew Square buildings on Scottish Provident site: full planning approval for £50m development by Glasgow's gareth hoskins architects + CDA Hazelwood School Progress shots of gm+ad architects' Glasgow school Highland Housing Fair Over 120 architects/developers registered for HHF Competition: 27 plots - allocations made, each has 5 to 21 entrants in competition: Highland Housing Fair Clyde Street Hotel Clydeview submitted plans for new hotel at 236-246 Clyde St by gm+ad Architects Carbon Emissions - Jack McConnell Scottish Executive publish planning guidance for renewable energy developments: requirement on all new developments to reduce carbon emissions by at least 15% Napier University Expansion Napier University appoints RMJM to design its £55m Sighthill campus Architecture Awards 2006 EAA Awards winners - a good year for Malcolm Fraser Architects Building of the Year Award: Scottish Storytelling Centre Regeneration/Conservation Award: HBoS Small Projects Award: Garden Room at 27 Hermitage Gardens Glasgow Waterfront John Norquist, president of Congress for New Urbanism, said predominance of steel & glass structures along Glasgow's riverside ran risk of becoming banal Dundee Schools 1 new secondary + 6 new primaries by Holmes Partnership : Dundee Schools gm + ad wins international award JKS Workshops receives award from Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture & Design: project put forward for the award by architect Massimiliano Fuksas Bar Ten News Controversy re proposals at Bar Ten but little seems to be afoot, indeed the owners have contacted Ben Kelly to discuss plans, petition online: Glasgow Bar 'Unknown Extension Proposal' William Kinnimonth house - 17 Essex Road: proposals by CiAO Architects receive planning approval: Edinburgh house Archigram exhibition/workshop - Edinburgh Proposal by AIA for Archigram Exhibition during festival time + Archigram Workshops at Edinburgh Waterfront, with Dennis Crompton from New York & other members such as Peter Cook on the cards, possibly in Architecture Week... Architecture Week - no Scottish Guide ... But no-one is coordinating Architecture Week in Scotland this year. The Lighthouse received funding in the last 2 years to co-ordinate & compile a Scottish guide for Architecture week events but this funding is no longer available (the English Arts Council fund it in England, the Scottish Arts Council stopped funding architecture about 5 years ago) The Future for Housing in Scotland Glasgow event : 27 Mar, one-day conference Saltire Awards 2007 Invitations open to Saltire Awards: Terms of Entry + Deadline Scottish Planning Awards photograph : Keith Hunter Scottish Quality in Planning Awards Winner: Aquilibrium by Page \ Park 301 St Vincent Street 250,000sqft office building proposed by Castlemore (West Midlands), the developer of Edinburgh's former GPO - Waverley Gate - on 1.3 acre car park site Bombarded by Red Tape Property professionals - architects, developers, contractors, etc. - are being bombarded with new Scottish Building Regulations Skye house picture from the architect Skye house by rural design, designed with focus on sustainable construction Glasgow Recruitment Glasgow Architects Job : gm+ad architects Scottish Architecture Competition Castle Precision Engineering, an engineering company that manufactures complex components for use in aircraft engines, plan a 10,000sqm development in 4 phases on a 20 acre greenfield site in East Renfrewshire. Architects are invited to express interest. Honoraria of £5000. Expressions of interest by 28 Mar, shortlist selection by 18 Apr Elder & Cannon - Flats Plans submitted by Tumpher Ltd for 51 flats + retail at 45-47 York St & 351 Argyle St Glasgow Architects Jobs Wish to improve prospects? One-stop shop: Glasgow Architect Jobs

Commonwealth Arena Glasgow

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Glasgow School of Art Extension

picture : Steven Holl Architects

Zaha Hadid

New Houses

Barcelona Architecture

Chinese Architecture

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