© Keith Hunter

Architects: Austin-Smith:Lord
Location: 10 Pearce Street, Govan, Scotland
Client: Bield Housing Association
Contractors: CCG
Project Completed: 2010
Project Area: 2,500sqm
Photographs: Keith Hunter

   
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© Angus Bremner & Paul Zanre

Architect: Oliver Chapman Architects
Location: Duns, Berwickshire, Scotland
Date of completion:  2010
Gross internal floor area (sqm): 14 no. units at 70 sqm
Total cost: £1,400,000.00
Structural engineers: David Narro Associates
Photographs: Angus Bremner, Paul Zanre

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© Keith Hunter

Architect: Paul Stallan Studio
Location: Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, Scotland
Landscape Architect: Tennant Garmory
Client: South Lanarkshire Council
Completed: 2010
Size: 3100m2
Contract Value: £8m
Photographs:  Keith Hunter, Paul Stallan Studio

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© Michael Collins

Architects: Oliver Chapman Architects
Location: Anstruther, Fife, 49 John Street
Start on site date: January 2011
Date of completion: July 2011
Gross internal Floor area: 45 sqm
Total cost: £160,000.00
Structural Engineers: David Narro Associates
Photographs: Michael Collins

   
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© Michael Wolchover

Architects: Reiach and Hall Architects
Location: Glasgow, Scotland
Structural Engineers: SKM
Quantity Surveyor: Balfour Beatty Construction Ltd
CDM Co-Ordinator: Capita Symonds
Landscape Architect: Horner + MacLennan
Acoustic Consultant: New Acoustics
M&E Engineer: DSSR
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 6000 sqm
Photographs: Michael Wolchover

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© Richard Gibson Architects Ltd

Grödians, [a Special Mention for the RIAS/Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland Award 2011], is a new-build social housing development comprising a mix of 1, 3 and 4 bedroom dwellings in flatted, semi detached and detached housing. It is the most recent of a staged housing development in the outskirts of Lerwick.

Architect: Richard Gibson Architects Ltd
Location: Lerwick, Shetland Islands, Scotland
Client: Hjaltland Housing Association Ltd
Contractor: E&H Building Contractors Ltd
Quantity Surveyor: John Duguid Partnership
Structural Engineer: Mott Macdonald Ltd
CDM Coordinator: Michael Thomson Surveyor
Photographs: Phatsheep Photography and Richard Gibson Architects
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© Andrew Lee

The Houl, [a 2011 RIBA Award Recipient], is a contemporary single storey ‘long house’ which is recessive in the landscape, sustainable in its construction and achieves a ‘zero carbon’ rating by using very high levels of insulation, whole house heat recovery ventilation, air source heat pump and a wind turbine.

Architect: Simon Winstanley Architects
Location: Dalry, Castle Douglas. DG7 3UB, Scotland
Structural Engineer: Asher Associates
Main Contractor: 3b Construction Ltd.
Landscape Architect: Paterson Landscape
Project Area: 182 sqm
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Simon Winstanley Architects, Andrew Lee
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© Andrew Lee

Architects: Gareth Hoskins Architects
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
Structural Engineer: David Narro Associates
Services Engineer: Max Fordham
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 30,000 sqm
Photographs: Andrew Lee

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Courtesy of Paul Stallan Studio

Paul Stallan Studio’s Commonwealth Games project, led by architects Alistair Brand, Ian Harper and Paul Stallan, in collaboration with the City Legacy Development Consortium were approached by Glasgow City Council to create a masterplan providing accommodation for the 2014 Commonwealth Games bid. The site is located in Dalmarnock in the East End of the City an area in desperate need of investment and social regeneration. More images and architects’ description after the break. read more »

This exclusive video of OMA’s Maggie’s Centre by BD online features OMA partner Ellen van Loon discussing the design for the cancer care center. Led by OMA Partners Rem Koolhaas and Ellen van Loon with Associate-in-charge Richard Hollington the Maggie Gartnaval center located in Glasgow opened today.

Ellen van Loon shared, “I enjoyed designing such an exceptional environment with this very dedicated and inspired team of designers and contractors. The sequence of spaces is an interplay of openness, retreat and support to underpin the Maggie’s programme.”

Image courtesy of OMA; photography by Philippe Ruault

Today marks the opening of Maggie’s Gartnaval, a new center for the charity located on the ground of Gartnaval Royal Infirmary in Glasgow, Scotland. Designed by OMA, the center aims to provide emotional and psychological support to those affected by cancer in the greater Glasgow area.

Rem Koolhaas commented, “We were touched to be asked to design a Maggie’s Centre, and invigorated by the opportunity to work on a completely different scale, with different ambitions, and in a different environment. Maggie’s is so unique and urgent among the projects we are working on.”

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© Dave Morris

Architects: Reiach and Hall Architects
Location: Dundee, Scotland
Structural Engineer: Buro Happold
Main Contractor: Bovis Lend Lease
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 12,500 sqm (Gross Internal Floor Area)
Photographs: Dave Morris, Paul Zane, Reiach and Hall Architects

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Courtesy of 5710 Society

5710 (Fifty Seven Ten) Society recently announced their lecture series for 2011-2012. The series kicks off with an opening party on September 29th and runs until April 26th.

The lecture series will be held at The Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and The Built Environment in Aberdeen, Scotland. It is a non-profit organisation run by students, which invites guest speakers to lecture in the School. Speakers are usually practicing architects of interest to students and to the school, and the society aims to create a link between architectural education and architectural practice. However, lecturers are also invited from related disciplines such as art, architectural photography and interior design. More information on the event after the break. read more »

© Konishi Gaffney Architects

The Kilcreggan Competition ‘A future for rural communities’ intended to produce ideas which could be replicated in other rural areas to help areas keep families and businesses and attract young people to live and work. The small village competition, Kilcreggan is 40 miles outside of Glasgow, recieved 56 entries and chose Konishi Gaffney Architects as the winning design. Focusing on designing a blueprint for the survival and growth of rural communities. Konishi Gaffney Architects’ proposals provided “some particularly innovative and well considered events along a new foreshore promenade, which could form a template for other rural communities to reinvigorate their communities by improving the amenity of their settlements and making them attractive as a destination for others”.

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© McAteer Photograph/Alan McAteer

In June we shared with you a first look at Zaha Hadid Architects‘ Riverside Museum in Glasgow, Scotland. Opened officially on June 21st the museum in a short seven week time period has already welcomed over half a million visitors!

“It is wonderful to see that the new museum has captured everyone’s imagination,” said Zaha Hadid. “Such passion for innovation and discovery from all members of the community is very exciting.”

“The Riverside Museum has been a huge hit since the day it opened to the public. We knew just how much visitors loved the old Museum of Transport at Kelvin Hall but even so, the reaction to the Riverside Museum has been phenomenal. The feedback from people has been overwhelmingly positive and we are already seeing visitors returning time and again to enjoy Glasgow’s latest attraction,” shared Councillor Gordon Matheson.

More about the Riverside Museum, photographs and drawings following the break.

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Courtesy of Balmond Studio

Cecil Balmond of Balmond Studio and Charles Jencks have developed the winning design, Star of Caledonia, for the border crossing between England and Scotland at Gretna.  Aiming for a 2014 completion date (just in time for the Commonwealth Games hosted in Glasgow) the design of this contemporary landmark sculpture will draw inspiration from Scotland’s scientific heritage and will feature a series of S-curves marking the cross of St. Andrew. read more »

© Andrew Lee

Architects: Page Park Architects
Location: Wilkieston, Kirknewton, Scotland
Project team: Jamie Hamilton, Karen Pickering, David Page
Project year: 2006 – 2011
Photographs: Andrew Lee, Page Park Architects

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© Culture & Sport Glasgow

Here is the first look at Zaha Hadid Architects latest project, Glasgow Riverside Museum of Transport. Slated to officially open later this week the museum in Glasgow, Scotland has 7,000 sqm of exhibition area and also includes cafe, retail and education spaces within its program. Following the break are more photographs and description.

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Dundee

Gordon Murray Architects were commissioned by Forth Energy, a joint venture between Forth Ports Plc and SSE (Scottish Southern Energy) to develop conceptual design proposals for a series of new Biomass Renewable Energy Plants in Scotland at their ports of Dundee, Grangemouth, Rosyth and Leith in support of Section 36 Applications. The projects have an estimated combined construction value of over £1 billion.

Each project is developed through a clear exploration and understanding of the technological processes involved in the plant operation, by drawing inspiration from the physical and historical setting in which each plant is located, and through intensive research into historical precedent of the power station as building typology. This ensures every project has a unique design solution appropriate to its function and place. More images and architects’ description after the break. read more »

© Ioana Marinescu

Architects: Reiach And Hall Architects
Location: Aberdeen, Scotland
Consultant Architect: KSS Design Group
Cost Consultant: Thomson Bethune
Structural Engineer: SKM Anthony Hunts
Services Engineer: KJ Tait Engineers
Landscape Architect: Horner + Maclennan
Sports Surface Specialist: PSD
Planning Supervisor: Reiach and Hall
Fire Engineer: Arup
Acoustic Consultant: Arup
Project Manager: Drivers Jonas Sport
Project area: 17,650 sqm
Photographs: Ioana Marinescu

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