The Glasgow Institute of Architects is pleased to announce the winners of the 2015 GIA Design Awards. With 51 entries from 33 practices, 7 categories including conservation and small works, and 3 special awards, the GIA Awards continues to display the talent of chapter based architects and local projects.
Design: Hoskins Architects. Proposals by the Chris Stewart Group for 59 serviced apartments, 375 student flats and 23,688 sqft of commercial space on vacant property which it acquired from the council
Design: Keppie, architects
Due to open in May 2016, Ayrshire College’s £50m Kilmarnock Campus has just achieved the highest vailable BREEAM rating of ‘Outstanding’ at design stage and is on target to translate the achievement to the post construction phase.
The urban regeneration of Laurieston, Glasgow, has been praised by the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS), by way of a Special Mention at the annual Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland awards ceremony.
The team behind the regeneration of Laurieston, Glasgow, has won the Delivering in Partnership category at the Scottish Governments Quality in Planning Awards 2015.
The public is being asked for their views on the future of Glasgow’s civic square: the SNP has raised a motion calling on the local authority to consider the views of city dwellers before any decisions are made about George Square.
Earlier this year the RIAS warned Glasgow City Council not to delay the long-awaited renovation of the city’s centrepiece civic square after fresh stumbling blocks to the project emerged.
110 Queen Street offers the best business address in Glasgow’s central business district with 143,000 sqft of prime office over nine floors and a garage with space for 56 cars. The development has 20,000sqft of retail located behind a striking contemporary, double height frontage.
City Science Park Glasgow property design by Page Park Architects – Scottish Enterprise building development news: urban business quarter for science and technology
e-architect have been doing guided architectural city walking tours since 2000, in cities such as Glasgow, Edinburgh, Barcelona and Rome. During the last few years we have expanded to include walking tours in cities such as Singapore, New York and New Delhi – with 74 cities at the time of writing.
The Clyde Arc (known locally as the Squinty Bridge), is a road bridge spanning the River Clyde in Glasgow, in west central Scotland, connecting Finnieston, near the Clyde Auditorium and SECC with Pacific Quay and Glasgow Science Centre in Govan
Glasgow building news: Strathclyde buildings designs – architectural developments in the West of Scotland, 2015 – new Glaswegian property development
Design: Keppie. Planning permission and listed building consent applications for a new council office building in Dumbarton have been submitted by Keppie, on behalf of West Dunbartonshire Council.