Glasgow News Sep 2008, Commonwealth Games Development

Glasgow News : September 2008

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Commonwealth Games Development Teams Four consortia shortlisted to develop £245m Commonwealth Games Village - Broadway Malyan Consortium - City Legacy Consortium led by Davis Langdon with RMJM, Cruden Estates, McTaggart & Mickel, Citybuilding and CCG - Gladedale Consortium - The PPD Consortium led by developer Charles Price with Mace, Caledonian Building, Woogar Hunter, DTZ with Elder and Cannon Architects, gm+ad Architects, Ian Simpson Architects (masterplan architect), Nord Architecture and Reiach and Hall Architects. Caltongate - No Public Enquiry Ministers approve Caltongate, ending this controversial saga Scottish Pavilion picture from the architect Photos of Gareth Hoskins Architects' Gathering Space, Venice Architecture Biennale 250908 Cairngorms Housing On site in Cairngorms National Park : Glenmore Housing Glasgow Architects Win Major Award photograph : Keith Hunter Yet another award for gm+ad's Hazelwood School : International Architecture Awards St James Tower Dropped Proposed tower - as high as Balmoral Hotel - abandoned : St James Quarter Warwick University Competition picture from the architect Warwick University Competition : Glasgow's Page \ Park win Home Report Cost RICS Scotland advise typical Home Report will cost the seller between £500 & £700 after 1 Dec 2008, incl. energy report and EPC to comply with European legislation GIA Awards Deadline for GIA Design Awards entries : 19 Sep Challenging Urban Density - Tall Buildings picture from the architect Free tickets still available for GIA members : Architecture Event with Brian Evans, Ian Simpson + Gordon Murray Venice Biennale Glasgow's Alan Dunlop on the Venice Biennale British Pavilion's London bias PPP Replacement Scottish Futures Trust News Princes Street hotel picture from the architect Princes Street Hotel by SMC Hugh Martin Architects 100908 Ardeer Peninsula Masterplan Keppie Design masterplan submitted for Scotland's largest brownfield regeneration project at the Ardeer Peninsula, North Ayrshire for Scottish-based NPL Estates. The Ardeer Peninsula spans 1700 acres of land along the Ayrshire coastline beside the 'three towns' of Ardrossan, Saltcoats and Stevenston. The site was formerly the largest explosives plant in the world and home to Alfred Nobel's Explosives Company Justice Mill Lane Richard Murphy's £75m Justice Mill Lane development in Aberdeen goes on site: First Minister, Alex Salmond, broke the turf Glasgow Transport Museum picture from the architect Further round of value-engineering proposed in council report: Glasgow Transport Museum Building Design Architect of the Year Award photograph : Andrew Lee Gareth Hoskins Architects have been shortlisted for the Building Design 2008 Architect of the Year Award in the Public Buildings Architect of the Year category. The winners will be announced on 30th October 2008 at the Hilton Park Lane in London. The public buildings put forward by Gareth Hoskins Architects for the awards submission include the Culloden Battlefield Memorial Centre in Inverness, 'The Bridge' Arts Centre in Easterhouse, Glasgow, and the Royal Museum in Edinburgh. The practice continues to go from strength to strength, following their recent success in winning the competition to design 'a Gathering Space', the Scottish presence at the 2008 Venice Biennale. If you would like to see the work of Gareth Hoskins Architects, the Lighthouse Series of Architectural Monographs is to feature this notable architectural practice as the first in the series. The exhibition will run from 12th September 2008 until 2nd November 2008 at The Lighthouse, and will be accompanied by a book on the practice. 050908 Edinburgh World Heritage Following the visit of UNESCO's director-general, Koïchiro Matsuura, to the capital debate has hotted up - he criticised Caltongate and Haymarket. Richard Murphy (rightly) describes UNESCO as a “conservation mafia” and questioned Matsuura's statements re Caltongate. “I suspect that this whole Unesco relationship is a cosy little club” and of course our design champion Terry Farrell aired his views (27 Aug) on BBC Radio. Joanna Blythman has waded in with some traditionalist reaction. And bizarre calls have been made to halt developments until UNESCO has made a decision in the Spring - as if the credit crunch were not already damaging the city enough. Opinion Piece 4 Sep by Adrian Welch: Edinburgh World Heritage Site Opinion Piece 1 Sep by Paul Tanner: Edinburgh World Heritage Status Bothwell Plaza Aedas appointed as masterplanner for European Development Company's £120m Bothwell Plaza - to be the tallest commercial building in Glasgow: 60,000 sqm, 18-storey mixed-used development - offices, retail, leisure + 5-star, 320-bed hotel Stirling Palace Project £12m conservation and refurbishment of Stirling Castle Royal Lodgings starts Best Building in Scotland Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland Award 2008 entry form available to download from RIAS website

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