Glasgow News Oct 2008, Housing Scotland, Mansell Partnership Homes
Glasgow News : October 2008
Glasgow Development, Scotland
Glasgow Housing Deal Glasgow City Council to help house builder Mansell Partnership Homes weather the current financial storm by extending a development agreement between the two parties: Blackhill housing development Glasgow Architects Annual deadline for listings - 31 Oct: Glasgow Architects Sheppard Robson + Paper Igloo Ltd + A1 Architectural Design Ltd + ark architecture+design added Restoring Edinburgh's Parthenon Work begins on restoring the National Monument on Calton Hill Greatest World Buildings of the 21st Century Latest edition due out 311008, only £100, 800 pages hardback, Scottish projects by Elder and Cannon, EMBT/RMJM, gm+adarchitects, Malcolm Fraser Architects, Page and Park & Zaha Hadid Architects: reviews welcome, more details soon Young Architect of the Year Young Architect of the Year Award 2008 winner Architect of the Year Award Gareth Hoskins Architects shortlisted for Architect of the Year 2008 Wasteland : Parkland Proposal to provide short term public green space on vacant development sites in Glasgow agreed at Glasgow City Council meeting 301008 Craigievar Castle News Craigievar Castle, Aberdeenshire swathed in heavy hessian to protect it through the winter months 291008 Swiss Show News The Lighthouse's Scottish Show Switzerland, Lausanne from 29 Oct: Glasgow Event New Campus Glasgow Architect/design team sought for Glasgow supercampus, one of Europe's most ambitious development projects: New Campus Glasgow 281008 Scottish Planning Reform News release from Culture Minister Linda Fabiani MSP launching Listing and Listed Building Consent policy: Scottish Planning Reform - Reaction from RIAS 281008 Oloroso Extension VIP rooftop extension proposal for Edinburgh's Oloroso restaurant Seamanship Centre Submission by BDP for £3.5m Nautical College building WAF Awards Sadly no wins for the four Scottish buildings - Culloden Battlefield + Hazelwood School + John Wheatley College + Shetland Museum: World Architecture Festival Awards 241008 Scots Win Indian Competition Kolkata Book Fair Pavilion for Scotland: 1st Prize for Graeme Massie Architects Glasgow Airport Extension Opens Phase 1 of £31m 'sky hub' extension to Glasgow Airport terminal opens to passengers: new ground floor arrivals hall for UK domestic flights + bar & restaurant Phase 2, a £12m security area, will come into operation next week The Elements The Elements shopping centre by BDP opens in Livingston Roses Awards Dualchas Building Design won the Architecture Grand Prix at Roses Awards Studio KAP Profile Rutherglen Glencairn Club + Dumgoyne house added : Studio KAP Glasgow Council Land Sell Off Shelved Glasgow City Council suspends proposed sale of 56 sites due to the current economic climate & property market conditions. Part of £100m plan to manage surplus property in its £1.8bn portfolio. GCC had hoped to sell the freeholds of empty sites, including schools, offices and the Tontine building, which it estimated could net it more than £100m, into a partnership with a developer. Advertised in an OJEU notice these sites cost approx. £1m per year. Trump News Public local inquiry report into Donald Trump's £1bn golf resort plans received by Finance Secretary John Swinney, who's committed to making a final decision within 28 days Shetland Museum Shetland Museum by BDP wins Wood Award Jumeirah Glasgow Hotel Jumeirah Group signs deal for : Jumeirah Glasgow Hotel Rangers Approval for £350m Rangers development Hazelwood US School designer newsletter waxes lyrical re Hazelwood School Alan Dunlop on PPP "The trouble is that this procurement process has resulted in pedestrian architecture driven by bottom-line economics and has resulted in some of the poorest new school design." Scottish Churches Funding Four churches to be repaired : Scottish Church Conservation Stirling Prize RIBA Stirling Prize winner Best Building in Scotland Andrew Doolan Award for Architecture Shortlist Scottish Architecture in Venice "Leaving aside the almost pathological fear that the London-based British Council and its London-based advisers have of architects outside the capital - they regard them as beneath contempt, worse, a potential international embarrassment....The Scots, however – organised by the rejuvenated Lighthouse architecture and design centre – have gone for impact....Call me partial, but as a Londoner, I’d say Scotland’s gamble paid off handsomely". Hugh Pearman in the RIBA Journal: http://www.ribajournal.com/article/view/3119076 Mansefield Place Rothesay building : Collective Architecture GIA Dinner Tickets now available for 2008 GIA Dinner at Oran Mor Design & Build New England Glasgow City Council will take a delegation to the Build Boston exhibition & conference in November. Building on the success of past visits, this year's program will again include exhibition & conference participation, matchmaking support, site visits, networking events and industry roundtables, details at www.gia.org.uk Cardonald Multis Oldest multi-storey blocks in Glasgow to get £14m facelift: Moss Heights flats in Cardonald, 11 blocks built in 1950s, second oldest in Scotland, to be refurbished by GHA Scottish Offices GVA Grimley report suggests Aberdeen office market is outperforming those in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Driven by the bouyant oil industry prime office rentals reached £30/sqft for first time Scottish Practices Shortlisted Lancashire Pennine Squared design competition Commonwealth Games Development Teams Four consortia shortlisted to develop £245m Commonwealth Games Village Panopticon News Glasgow's first cabaret festival to raise cash for Britannia Music Hall restoration. The week-long festival next July will include a mix of theatre, cabaret and burlesque. September Highlights Caltongate approval International Architecture Awards : Hazelwood School Venice Biennale British Pavilion : London bias Scottish Futures Trust News Glasgow Transport Museum value engineering Edinburgh World Heritage Site Edinburgh World Heritage Status Stirling Castle Royal Lodgings starts |
Briggait Centre redevelopment starts
Commonwealth Games : Village
Glasgow Fort to expand by a third
University of Strathclyde Architecture
Glasgow Tour : A-Z List of historic + contemporary buildings in wider Glasgow area
Glasgow Area Tour : buildings in the West of Scotland (outwith Glasgow)
Scottish Planning : changes
Egyptian Halls : under one ownership
Red Road flats : demolition
Haymarket Station : new images
Haymarket : new images
Venice Architecture Biennale : entries
Stirling Prize : Gordon Murray on jury
Glasgow School of Art
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New Houses
Zaha Hadid
Scottish Building News
Scottish Architecture: best scottish buildings of the last three decades
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