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

Prospect Power 100
Prospect Power 100 list

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

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Glasgow City Tour : buildings in the city
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



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