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Glasgow Building News 2026, Strathclyde
post updated 16 January 2026
16 January 2026
Northern Architecture Firm Open Scottish Architects Office
Yorkshire architects brown + company have opened an office in Edinburgh. The architecture practice will be run by award-winning architect Rob Miller:
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13 January 2025
The Victoria Glasgow Homes
Design: Collective Architecture
Photos © Keith Hunter
Collective Architecture Completes Phase One of Glasgow’s Historic Victoria Infirmary Revival
First buildings of major scheme provide more than 130 affordable new homes, with hundreds more to come in Phase Two
13 January 2026
Home builders frustrated by Scottish Budget
References to young Scots looking for their first home and support for wider all-tenure ambitions welcome but glaring lack of detail
As Scotland’s housing emergency continues to intensify, the country’s home builders have been left “frustrated” by today’s Scottish Budget announcement.
Jane Wood, Chief Executive of representative body Homes for Scotland, said:
“It was extremely encouraging to hear the Cabinet Secretary for Finance talk of ‘new hope for young Scots looking for their first home’. The Budget document itself also emphasises ‘all-tenure’ ambition and details £66m in Financial Transactions for housing. However, the lack of detail on what this will mean in practice is extremely frustrating.
“With home building levels now at or near historic lows, the only feasible way out of the housing emergency is to build significantly more homes across private and social sectors. Key to this is confidence for both new and existing investors, on which we have been working closely with the Scottish Government but I am afraid today appears to be a missed opportunity to announce the bold initiatives that we believe would significantly stimulate construction. Support for first time buyers (previously provided by the First Home Fund) is absolutely fundamental. It remains to be seen whether this will be forthcoming to give young people the hope the Budget statement alluded to.
“As we approach May’s election, we urge all parties to come forward with policies which deliver the homes Scotland needs.”
12 January 2026
Princes House Student Accommodation Glasgow Building Design
Acting on behalf of TREC Capital, Mosaic Architecture + Design, one of Scotland’s most experienced practices, has submitted a planning application to develop best-in-class purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) at Princes House on the corner of Waterloo Street and West Campbell Street in Glasgow city centre.
image courtesy of architects practice
Princes House Student Accommodation Glasgow Building News
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Strathclyde Property Development Updates from last year:
27 December 2025
Revolver Hotel Fire
Firefighters tackled a large blaze at a Glasgow city centre hotel, report BBC Scotland.
The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service was called to a “well-developed fire” on the fourth floor of the Revolver Hotel on Virginia Street.
There are no reports of any injuries. Eight appliances were sent to tackle the hotel fire.
By about 8pm the large flames appeared to have been extinguished, while firefighters on ladders continued to tackle the remnants of the blaze.
11 December 2025
Mosaic Architecture + Design Wins at the Scottish Property Awards
Mosaic Architecture + Design, one of Scotland’s most experienced practices, has been shortlisted as a finalist in two categories at the prestigious Scottish Property Awards 2026.
The practice has been shortlisted in the Build to Rent Development of the Year for its work on Dalian House, Glasgow and for Renovation Project of the Year for its work on the Teacher Building, also in Glasgow.
Teacher Building – Renovation Project of the Year:
photo courtesy of architects practice
11 December 2025
George Square Renewal Construction News
Work to redesign Glasgow’s George Square has reached almost the halfway point, with contractors now beginning to resurface the surrounding streets with stone.
From 12 January, the northern side of the square will be re-laid with granite slabs, extending the new paving from the main civic space into neighbouring roads and pavements.
This next phase is about delivering a transformation from the City Chambers to Queen Street Station and the streets around it. The renewed square will stand alongside the great civic spaces of major European cities. That requires reimagining the wider area as well as the square itself.
4 December 2025
Erskine Civic Plaza
A new civic plaza, garden and events space will be created in Erskine to provide a focal point for the local community:
Glasgow Chinatown Masterplan News
New plans have been developed for Glasgow’s Chinatown, proposing its transformation into a vibrant neighbourhood.
New City Burnside — a partnership between Keltbray Developments and Glasgow Chinatown — has submitted a proposal of application notice for a £160 million mixed-use masterplan covering the 4.4-acre New City Road site in Cowcaddens.
Early designs by London architects HawkinsBrown suggest replacing the existing 1992 complex, which includes a supermarket and several restaurants, to make way for new homes and community facilities.
2 December 2025
Save Hampden Park (The Original) !
The original Hampden Park must be saved from destruction, the National Trust for Scotland (NTS) has warned.
The site on Kingsley Avenue in the Southside has been described as the “blueprint” for modern football stadiums. It is currently home to Hampden Bowling Club which is sadly set to close early in 2026.
That has prompted fears among campaigners that the site, which hosted the national team and Scottish Cup finals from 1873-1883, could be turned into flats or a car park if the grounds become free for commercial use.
NTS chief executive Philip Long said the site needed to be celebrated rather than redeveloped.
Hampden Bowling Club sits on the site of the First Hampden Park, home to Queens Park FC and Scotland’s National Team from 1873 to 1884.
On their website they state, “Any other country would give their right arm for our football history and heritage. Our mission is to explain how important Hampden is to the local community, the nation as a whole and to the world at large. We have one simple phrase:”
“Scotland invented football and Hampden is its home”.
Good on them, we should celebrate this heritage.
More Glasgow Building News 2026 online soon.
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Contemporary Strathclyde Architecture by Typology – significant properties and structures:
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Over time we will add more granular types, for now they are combined, for example colleges are with universities.
More contemporary Glasgow Building News 2026 online soon, from Isabelle Lomholt and Adrian Welch at e-architect.
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