Glasgow News - January 2009: Buildings in Scotland

January 2009

Glasgow Development, Scotland
 

Wallace Monument Wallace Monument visitor facility extension : Lee Boyd Architects Mies van der Rohe Awards Scottish Nominees listed at Mies van der Rohe Awards Mackintosh School Friday Lecture 30 Jan : Fiona Sheppard of Peter Barber Architects re Donnybrook Quarter Union Square Aberdeen Shopping Centre : BDP Carbuncles Glenrothes named most dismal place in Scotland in Carbuncles Awards. 290109 Norton House Norton House Hotel : Fletcher Joseph Ingleby Gallery Ingleby Gallery : Helen Lucas Architects. 280109 Bankton Primary School Bankton Primary School Livingston : Arcade Architects Russell Place Russell Place house : Arcade Architects. 270109 Clarion Wellington Street office development topped out ceremony : Clarion Craigmillar Town Centre Approval Approval for PARC's Craigmillar Town Centre Scotland’s first ‘A’ Energy Performance Certificates Photos : Alan McAteer Scottish Office Buildings : Cooper Cromar SoCo Approved Unanimous approval for SoCo : Allan Murray Architects Jurys Inn 2nd Glasgow Hotel New 230-room hotel in Lancefield St, near the SECC : Jurys Glasgow Hotel New Scottish School Renzo Mazzolini Glasgow's Page \ Park complete Fettes College Prep School Centre For Health Science Inverness © Ewen Weatherspoon Keppie Design's Centre For Health Science Inverness opened by Jim Mather MSP cre8architecture Design Flood Design Competition : cre8architecture entry Govanhill Pool Results our from a survey by The Govanhill Baths Community Trust, into the impact of the pool's closure found many, rather than travel to alternative venues, had ceased to take any form of exercise Kolkata Pavilion not to be designed in Scotland Graeme Massie resigns from Kolkata Book Fair Pavilion for Scotland project New Urbanism New Town Will Scotland get its own Poundbury? Planning application for a new town at Tornagrain, between Inverness and Nairn, submitted by Andres Duany, one of the founders of the Congress for New Urbanism Bauhaus in Cumbernauld The Bauhaus School of Architecture & Design, Berlin in Cumbernauld SOUTH CITY Symposium Modernist Urbanism in the Southern Hemisphere: Past, Present, Future Organisers: Docomomo / Edinburgh College of Art / University of Edinburgh South City Symposium : 22 - 23 Jan Scottish Photographers Photo : Neale Smith Neale Smith added : Glasgow Links 160109 Jan Kaplický Dies Former Future Systems architect Jan Kaplický is dead, hours after his wife gave birth to their daughter. Future Systems worked with McKeown Alexander on the Glasgow Bridge competition Moore Street Moore Street Glasgow : information + images from Richard Murphy Architects Murray Grigor Film Photo by Sara Sackner Celebrated Scottish filmmaker Murray Grigor launches World Premiere of John Lautner film : INFINITE SPACE at Palm Springs Film Festival, USA 12 Jan 2009. The star-studded cast includes Sean Connery, Lautner's daughter and architect Frank Gehry. 110109 Forth Crossing Design With talks now set for 27 Jan in London to agree New Forth Road Bridge funding, Scottish Secretary Jim Murphy suggests the design should also be on the agenda, according to The Scotsman. Meanwhile, The Sunday Herald reports that PPP would likely increase the cost of the project from £2.3 billion to £4bn, with a toll of......£26. The SNP administration in Edinburgh, which opposes PFI/PPP, wants the UK Treasury to spread project costs over 20 years. Moore Street Andrew Lee Glasgow buildings by Elder & Cannon, jmarchitects, Page / Park, Richard Murphy Architects complete : Moore Street Housing Gazprom Tower News Okhta Tower by Edinburgh's RMJM Architects to be fully funded Dualchas house shortlisted Dualchas house : AJ Small Buildings Award shortlist. 090109 Newsnight Glasgow 1999 Discussion on lasting effects of the controversial initiative: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00gnvtg/Newsnight_Scotland_08_01_2009/ Move the curser about 3/5 of the way along - Glasgow 1999 :Ten Years After Edinburgh Council Land Acquisition CEC to buy up reduced cost land from credit-crunch hit developers, principally on the waterfront, to stimulate development and provide land for much-needed affordable homes. 080109 Princes Street Hotel Critics Architecture and Design Scotland criticise SMC Hugh Martin Architects' Princes Street Hotel proposals. 060109 Architectural Record US magazine prominently features gm+ad architects' Hazelwood School under 21st Century Schools Aberdeen Hotel image © Holmes Union St Hotel : planning permission gained for Holmes Clyde Gateway Gillespies landscape architects selected for £1m Bridgeton Cross Renewal proposals: detailed designs required by end of January, start on site due by October, with completion early 2010. Energy Performance Certificates On the day all large public buildings in Scotland were supposed to display Energy Performance Certificates under EU laws many public buildings failed to get a certificate, and of those that have many are poor. 050109 St Paul's & St George's Malcolm Innes St Paul's & St George's Church Redevelopment in Edinburgh by lee boyd : completed building photos 050109 Key International Projects: Burj Dubai Jewish Museum Berlin Barcelona Pavilion Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Empire State Building CCTV Beijing Rockefeller Center Burj al Arab Birds Nest Beijing

Highlights from 2008
Gareth Hoskins : wins Spirit of Scotland Art Prize
Housesteads Roman Fort : Gareth Hoskins Architects selected
John Wheatley College : images by Keith Hunter
Burns Monument : restoration appeal
Edinburgh Informatics : images by Keith Hunter
Terry Farrell : appointed by London Mayor
Glasgow School of Art : Images from ZM Architecture
Erskine Care Home : wins award
Meadowbank Stadium : redevelopment on hold
Beatson Institute : wins GIA Awards Supreme Award
Sir Alwyn Williams Building : wins GIA 'Best Education Building' commendation
Pier Arts Centre : wins IAA 'Best New Building in the Highlands and Islands
Edinburgh World Heritage Status : status safe
Strathclyde Univeristy Building : Sheppard Robson
Hazelwood School : wins Architecture in Scotland Annual poll
Peacock Visual Arts : under threat
Glasgow Transport Museum : new funds
Saltire Housing Design Awards : results
Castlemilk House : Elder & Cannon Architects
Potterrow : Bennetts Associates
Culloden Battlefield Visitor Centre : Gareth Hoskins Architects
Gartnavel Royal Hospital : wins award
133 Finnieston Street : complete
Buchanan Galleries extension : approved
Jumeirah Glasgow Hotel
New Campus Glasgow
Scottish Planning Reform
Glasgow Airport terminal
Rangers Development
Commonwealth Games Glasgow
Britannia Music Hall
Glasgow Fort to expand
Caltongate approval
Edinburgh World Heritage Site
Stirling Castle Royal Lodgings
Commonwealth Games Village
University of Strathclyde Architecture
Scottish Planning : changes
Merchant City Glasgow
Red Road flats : demolition
Stirling Prize winner
Haymarket Station : new images
Haymarket : new images
Venice Architecture Biennale : entries
Stirling Prize : Gordon Murray on jury

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