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Front Cover: The Black House by Dualchas, photograph by David Barbour
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The Architecture Annual 2019 closes out a decade of ground-breaking work with a fresh cohort of 88 projects compiled by Urban Realm which enable all architects, clients and contractors to regard the future with confidence. These 138 pages are the result of travelling the length and breadth of the country in order to pull together the best delivered work from The Black House (pg30) on the Isle of Skye which sees Dualchas shake up the most traditional of building forms to a fairytale House in the Woods (pg48) in which Taylor Architecture Practice bring a touch of fairyland to the Scottish Borders. Runaway winners at the Scottish Design Awards Marc Kilkenny Architects return from over the Irish Sea once again with Clydebank Community Sports Hub (pg115), frieze-framed here for its contribution not just to architecture but to design craft courtesy of Freytag Anderson. Structural gymnastics takes centre stage at TrägerHAUS (pg32) where Haus have defied gravity by embodying the potential of posttension concrete to its fullest. Among the familiar faces we also welcome a number of newcomers to the ASA this year in the form of Graeme Nicholls Architects with their first major project at Ashtree Road (pg31), followed by Line Architecture who have unveiled a major new work of their own with Monachyle Beag
(pg14) and Trail Architects who have brought a ray of light to Inverness with The Raining’s Stairs (pg50). The following pages sit as a companion piece to our ever-growing library of new buildings available to view online at Urban Realm, an invaluable resource for anyone wishing to stay abreast of the changing priorities, trends and technologies but it is this book which serves as the most tangible connection to the past, something which becomes ever more important as the digital age advances. In a tumultuous age architecture provides a bulwark of stability against the maelstrom of events, technological progress and social change which at times threaten to overwhelm us. By transposing this work from the screen to the page I hope it will serve as a constant reminder of all that has been achieved and as a declaration of intent for the future. No-one and no place should ever stand still, least of all architects and our built environment. With this book we celebrate not just what has been achieved but set out a roadmap for the projects which are still to come.
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Aberdeen Music Hall Calton Hill Observatory East Calder Partnership Centre Weltmusum Wien Gairloch Museum The Gorebridge Beacon Monachyle Beag Dundee Station Oban North Pier Harbour Building Edinburgh Printmakers Partick Bus Station Redevelopment West Highland Way
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Aberdeen Music Hall Public Aberdeen Aberdeen Music Hall has been at the centre of cultural life in the north-east of Scotland since the 1850s. Thirty years on from a major refurbishment, the celebrated concert hall was in need of repair and a new vision to position it to serve the public for decades to come. The venue fell far-short of current expectations of access and inclusion, whist its layout and facilities constrained Aberdeen Performing Arts desire to expand delivery of music education and performance and its tired dated image risked alienating a new generation of audience members. New basement areas were excavated under the listed building to provide lift and stair access, and removal of the concert hall floor allowed a basement store to be opened-up and enlarged to relocate toilets that had been introduced in a prime location on the ground floor in the 1980s. Occupying the ground floor space recovered by displacement of the toilets, a contemporary café bar is flooded with daylight through windows that had been boarded-over, and relocation of the bar has allowed a magnificent neo-classical room to become the Big Sky Studio for more intimate performances. For the first time in the building’s history, all visitors have barrier-free access through the front door by means of a new granite ramp let-into the podium of the portico. Once inside, an invisible lift emerges from the marble stairs, and two new passenger lifts provide access to all floors including a Creative Learning Space that has been created by combining back-ofhouse offices on the first floor to provide APA with a dedicated space for music education. At the main entrance, full-height frameless glass door assemblies frame a large video wall designed to entice passers-by to cross the threshold, whether it be to engage with its artistic and entertainment events, educational programme, or just to enjoy the new café bar. In addition to extensive repair and conservation of the Category A-listed fabric, redevelopment of the Music Hall delivers major upgrade of the concert hall auditorium to provide adjusted sightlines, new seating, platform enlargement, a stage lift and hardwood flooring. Overbearing and dated interior decoration has been replaced with a sympathetic, timeless colour scheme to complement the elegant neo-classical detailing of the listed interiors that have been enhanced by installation of BDP’s architectural lighting in all public areas.
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ARCHITECT BDP I CLIENT ABERDEEN PERFORMING ARTS I STRUCTURAL ENGINEER BDP I SERVICES ENGINEER BDP I QUANTITY SURVEYOR GARDINER & THEOBALD I PROJECT MANAGER AXIOM I MAIN CONTRACTOR KIER I PHOTOGRAPHER DAVID BARBOUR/BDP
Calton Hill Observatory ARCHITECT COLLECTIVE ARCHITECTURE I CLIENT CITY OF EDINBURGH COUNCIL/COLLECTIVE I STRUCTURAL ENGINEER ELLIOT & COMPANY I SERVICES ENGINEER CUNDALL I QUANTITY SURVEYOR FAITHFUL & GOULD I LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT HARRISON STEVENS I PHOTOGRAPHY TOM NOLAN & SUSIE LOWE I MAIN CONTRACTOR ESH CONSTRUCTION
Public Edinburgh The design and restoration project was split into two phases. Following Phase 1 works by Collective Architecture in 2014, which facilitated the relocation of Collective to the City Dome on Calton Hill, Phase 2 works see the extensive refurbishment of the Category A Listed City Observatory, Transit House, Playfair Monument & Boundary Walls. It also includes the addition of a new two-storey restaurant, ‘The Lookout’ which cantilevers over the northeast corner of the boundary wall, a new gallery ‘The Hillside’ which is excavated into the basalt mound to the north of the Observatory and a new welcome kiosk . The connections between each building are then carefully knitted together by an extensive new landscaping scheme, which allows the site to become fully accessible and open to all, for the first time in its 240 year history.
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East Calder Partnership Centre Public East Calder
ARCHITECT COLLECTIVE ARCHITECTURE I CLIENT WEST LOTHIAN COUNCIL
Collective Architecture has recently completed a new £3.5m Partnership Centre in East Calder, for West Lothian Council. The Centre brings together community services which include; the East Calder Community Library, Community Education & Resource Centre, Local Council meeting rooms, multifunctional community halls and changing facilities for local sports clubs including East Calder Community Football Club. Building proposals were developed in parallel with a master-planning strategy, which aimed to establish a green link through the town centre. The two primary building uses of the library and community multipurpose halls create distinct building forms which emulate local vernacular forms. The Centre accommodates a wide range of community activities. This includes a preschool playgroup and children’s breakfast club, 50+ group, Judo, Yoga, Needlecraft, Youth Work, Sure Start, Advice Shop, Camcorder Group and Old Time Dancing. The local community have fully embraced the building which is constantly active throughout the whole year. A controlled palette of materials has been chosen in response to the building’s context. A strong multi grey/brown facing brick compliments the local stone, alongside areas of pre-oxidised copper which allow the building form to stand proud and become a new beacon for East Calder.
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Weltmusum Wien Public Vienna, Austria Following an international open competition in 2013, Hoskins Architects – in collaboration with Ralph Appelbaum Associates – were appointed to redevelop the Weltmuseum Wien’s exhibition and visitor facilities. The 7,500m² museum is situated in the historic Hofburg Palace in Vienna and includes 2,400m² of permanent exhibits and 1,400m² of temporary exhibition spaces. A contemporary multifunction ‘cube’ in front of the main entrance highlights the museum’s public presence on Heldenplatz. New reception and introductory spaces lead visitors to the Säulenhalle – the heart of the museum – where visitors can relax in a new café area. From this dramatic space visitors can directly access the temporary exhibition spaces, a new museum shop and a new auditorium at ground floor level; or the permanent collection and education facilities on the upper floor. The design incorporates a consistent architectural language, sensitive to its historic context, which works with the exhibition design to create a clear and coherent museum.
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ARCHITECT HOSKINS ARCHITECTS I CLIENT KHM-MUSEUMSVERBAND I STRUCTURAL ENGINEER FRÖHLICH & LOCHER UND PARTNER ZT GMBH I PROJECT MANAGER ARCHITEKT SIMLINGER & PARTNER ZT GMBH I MAIN CONTRACTOR VASKO + PARTNER INGENIEURE I PHOTOGRAPHER KHM/PIERER DESIGN TEAM I DESIGN TEAM RALPH APPELBAUM ASSOCIATES
Gairloch Museum Public Gairloch
ARCHITECT LDN ARCHITECTS I CLIENT GAIRLOCH AND DISTRICT HERITAGE COMPANY LTD
The leap of imagination involved in viewing what was intended to be an Anti-Aircraft Operations Room (AAOR), and became a Highland Council Depot instead, into a 21st Century Museum was immense. It was wellworth making, however, and our client must be commended for seeing the prospect and sticking with it. The AAOR is a concrete box inside a concrete box, built in the 1950s as a command centre that would withstand the effects of a hydrogen bomb blast. Although never kitted out, it is an extraordinarily tough construction and we had to take care in considering where and how that might be changed. The outcome delivers a very precise exercise in plan with few external changes but, where change has been made, effected with utility and drama to the fore. In essence, the exterior has been dressed to maintain and enhance the monolithic block of the AAOR with the original blast wall reimagined to form the new entrance. That is set in stark contrast to the interior, which was grit-blasted back to the original concrete throughout. The nails that once held the formwork for the concrete roof have also been left in place - now, other than the walls, the oldest visible pieces of the building. The largest object and centre-piece for the Museum is a Fresnel Lens, removed from the Rubh Re Lighthouse. This sits within a complex of displays, the materiality of which returns to that of the pristine exterior but bringing the warmth of timber and the complexity and cultural breadth of the Museum’s collections into proper view for the first time.
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The Gorebridge Beacon Public Hunterfield Rd The Gorebridge Beacon finally opened its doors to the public on November 2018, nearly 10 years after Lee Boyd won a competition to support the Gorebridge Community Development Trust in building a much needed multi-purpose community building in the town. The project struggled post-financial crisis to raise the appropriate funds, the first contractor was sacked half-way through the project in 2015 and only 8 weeks before the project was due to open in spring 2017, it was subject to an arson attack which set completion back by a further 18 months. The aspiration to provide comfortable, flexible and affordable public facilities in Gorebridge is now being realised. The Beacon is already busy with a huge variety of community activity, is hosting events and providing office space for local organisations. The new building clad in Scottish Larch, sits on an open site alongside Gorebridge Parish Church and looks out across the Pentlands Hills. The design places the building back from the road to create a more relaxed threshold and organises accommodation around a double height circulation space. The accommodation schedule includes: main hall, Trust office, cafe, nursery, ancillary spaces, a suite of lettable office space and a meeting room.
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ARCHITECT LEE BOYD I CLIENT GOREBRIDGE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TRUST I SERVICES ENGINEER MARMAC I MAIN CONTRACTOR ELMWOOD CONSTRUCTION I PHOTOGRAPHER KEITH HUNTER
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Monachyle Beag Public Balquidder Glen, Loch Lomond The project at Monachyle Beag was to create a new sporting estate within a 1000-acre upland holding in the Trossachs. The centrepiece is a new hunting lodge which is perched on the edge of a mountainside looking over Loch Doine and to the upper reaches of Balquhidder Glen. The brief required a building to house stalking equipment and vehicles at one end and a luxury living area at the other end to allow guests to spend up to a week at a time stalking on the estate. The lodge sits isolated on the hillside, a small forestry road was specially constructed to the site and the planning permission included a five-year planting plan to link areas of native woodland across the estate. The lodge is separated into three main elements – an oversailing barn-like structure under a sedum roof that minimises the visual impact of the glazing while also creating covered and sheltered spaces to view the landscape and to provide shelter for guests when coming off the mountain. The inner structure is separated into two elements; a solid utility section, housing vehicles, entrances and plant rooms and then a glazed box at the far side of the building that forms the main living area, enjoying 270-degree views of the surrounding landscape. This inner structure is uniformly coloured in a flat grey to accentuate the shadows and the outer skin is a more highly textured, sun bleached Scottish larch.
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Dundee Station Public Dundee Central Waterfront A tour of many 1960's stations across the country which were born out of a period of retrenchment shows only too well how a narrow focus on functionality can be underwhelming and of course, lack the flexibility that the railway now needs as it enjoys a new renaissance. So as plans for housing, hotels, offices, restaurants and retail are considered around and above our stations how do we celebrate the railway? From that perspective, it is interesting to reflect upon what Dundee Station was like only a few years ago. Each of these commercial uses has its own needs and requirements not least to provide a commercial return to enable value to the railway but critically also to enable railway enhancements and development. So a careful architectural balance developed in collaboration with multiple development partners is required to deliver that value whilst ensuring that the railway does not drown in a cacophony of visually and functionally competing developments. Network Rail's Station Design Principles point to many functions which can underpin an architectural response to mixed-use railway development. Protecting crowded places, pedestrian flow, legibility, permeability, revenue protection, access for all and wayfinding are all functions, but they also provide a rationale for public space, the sequencing and scale of spaces and architectural prompts to ease understanding and navigation through spaces. Such factors influenced our architectural response to the new Dundee Station (designed with Jacobs for Dundee City Council) which also contains a 120-bed hotel, restaurant and office suite beyond its railway functionality. Its street level concourse is housed in a grand arch in sharp contrast to the 1960's station which it has replaced, addressing a major public space leading to both the new V&A and the city centre. The arch vaults the ECML below celebrating the station as a gateway to the city but also the rail network, leading through to an escalator hall which takes the traveller down to the platforms below. The arch in turn provides access to the route to the platforms, pick up and drop off, taxis, rail replacement buses (when needed), parking and a new enclosed cycle park. Each part of the mixed-use development has its public face and its own identity and conversely, the new-found scale of the development offers the station an urban grandeur which it would otherwise not have.
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ARCHITECT NICOLL RUSSELL STUDIOS I CLIENT CONWAY CONSULTANTS I STRUCTURAL ENGINEER JACOBS I LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL I MAIN CONTRACTOR BALFOUR BEATTY I PHOTOGRAPHY JAMES THOMPSON UK CONSTRUCTION PHOTOGRAPHY
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Oban North Pier Harbour Building Public Oban The Oban North Pier Harbour Building is located on a prominent site, on Oban’s North Pier and forms part of the Argyll & Bute Council’s wider public realm regeneration of Oban’s High Street and Waterfront. The building provides office space for the North Pier’s Harbour Master, as well as tourist information and support facilities for the recently completed Pontoon birthing extension. Accommodation includes shower, locker and support facilities for people arriving in Oban by boat, ferry, yacht or kayak. A small commercial unit with a separate entrance is also included on the ground floor. Site restrictions within the working pier environment determined the building’s potential footprint, whilst the party wall to the existing Listed hotel building adjacent, determined the height. The design intent was to provide a commanding key view for the Harbour Master across the new pontoons and to all vessels approaching and exiting the harbour into the bay beyond. The Harbour Master is cantilevered out over the main entrance, creating drama and public shelter against the ever-changing climate.
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ARCHITECT OBERLANDERS I CLIENT ARGYLL & BUTE COUNCIL I STRUCTURAL ENGINEER CAPITA I SERVICES ENGINEER HARLEY HADDOW I QUANTITY SURVEYOR CAPITA I PROJECT MANAGER CAPITA I MAIN CONTRACTOR TSL
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ARCHITECT PAGE\PARK I STRUCTURAL ENGINEER WILL RUDD DAVIDSON I SERVICES ENGINEER HARLEY HADDOW I QUANTITY SURVEYOR DOIG AND SMITH I PROJECT MANAGER GARDINER AND THEOBALD I MAIN CONTRACTOR INTERSERVE CONSTRUCTION
Edinburgh Printmakers Public Castle Mills, Edinburgh Edinburgh Printmakers’ new creative hub is located within the former headquarters of the North British Rubber Company. Our project involved the redevelopment of this derelict building into a multi-use arts complex centred around printmaking production. New architectural elements are light of touch and stem from an understanding of the heritage.
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Partick Bus Station Redevelopment Public Partick, Glasgow SPT’s Redevelopment of Partick Bus Station creates an attractive “forecourt” to the existing Rail/Subway station completing a transport hub that integrates bus, rail, subway with national cycle and local footpath networks providing multi-modal connectivity and access for all. The existing bus station apron is remodelled and existing unsightly bus shelters replaced by bespoke architect designed bus stances increased in size/number. The extensive structural glazing connected to elegant steel framing creates transparency that aids wayfinding/surveillance. As the roofscape is highly visible, it is deliberately designed with an attractive curved profile that cantilevers to accentuate their prominence and provide shelter at stance entrances. The cantilevered metal roof form and soffit is further emphasized by continuous LED lighting to soffit edges. Glazed stance auto doors are activated on bus arrival by induction loops concealed within the bus apron. The 3.2m internal height of the bus stances provides a sense of space. The curved glass ends allied with the polished granite plinths contribute to the high quality waiting space that improves the passenger experience. The public realm is decluttered and the installation of high specification granite paving, seating and planting raise the quality of the environment for passengers and the local community.
ARCHITECT AUSTIN-SMITH:LORD I CLIENT SPT I STRUCTURAL ENGINEER CURTINS CONSULTING I SERVICES ENGINEER SVM I MAIN CONTRACTOR LUDDON LTD I PHOTOGRAPHER KEITH HUNTER
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West Highland Way Public Milngavie
ARCHITECT PAGE\PARK I CLIENT MILNGAVIE BID I STRUCTURAL ENGINEER WOOLGAR HUNTER I MAIN CONTRACTOR SCOTT ASSOCIATES SCULPTURE & DESIGN
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The first officially designated long-distance path in Scotland, the West Highland Way runs for 96 miles (154 km), from the town of Milngavie in East Dumbartonshire to Fort William in the Scottish Highlands. Throughout the year, walkers from around the world converge on Milngavie to embark on the Way, but until now a tarmac ramp and blank gable, leading through a service yard, have made for an inauspicious start. The proposal enhances the setting-off point for the walk, by offering photo opportunities and glimpses of the landmarks and vistas populating the route. The scheme is comprised of three elements: at the top of the ramp is a large ‘welcome panel’, with two walkers pointing the way. Then, as the ramp crosses the Allander Water, the key element of the installation is revealed: a 25m long artwork in a restrained palette of corten steel and timber, screening the existing gable from view. Ninetysix timber posts, representing the total mileage to Fort William, are grouped into sections of the walk. Between each cluster, 750x2000mm demountable corten panels have been routered and layered with illustrations and milestones. At the bottom of the ramp, a new screen of timber and corten guides walkers away from the service yard, encouraging passage along water’s edge. The final element, a freestanding introductory panel, faced with a silhouette of the route northward, overlooks the ramp.
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Havannah House Residential Glasgow Collegelands is Vastint Hospitality’s first student housing development in Europe. The use of part-modular, cross-laminated timber construction reduced typical construction time, improved build quality and enhanced the overall sustainability credentials of the building. We designed an S-shaped building which encloses a private courtyard to the south, together with a semi-public courtyard to the north. The six-storey building has accommodation for 458 students with a mix of standard, cluster and wheelchair rooms. Standard studios have integrated kitchen facilities, while cluster and accessible studios share one of the four communal kitchens on each floor. Gerben de Witt, Vastint Hospitality ‘It shows that such great achievements can be born from teamwork, close collaboration, devotion, good technical knowledge and fun. This complete team truly has been amazing’.
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ARCHITECT ANDERSON BELL + CHRISTIE I CLIENT VASTINT HOSPITALITY I STRUCTURAL ENGINEER RAMAGE YOUNG I SERVICES ENGINEER ATELIER TEN I MAIN CONTRACTOR ROBERTSON GROUP CONSTRUCTION
Seaforth Drive Residential Blackhall, Edinburgh Single storey garden room extension and internal alterations to stone built semidetached villa. The client was seeking a cuttingedge piece of architecture incorporating large areas of frameless glazing, maximising the link to the garden and bringing in as much daylight as possible. We also provided a re-designed garden to allow a flush transition from house to garden. External lighting shows the garden off to its full potential when viewing from the extension at night.
ARCHITECT ANDREW BLACK DESIGN I CLIENT PRIVATE I MAIN CONTRACTOR DAVID J LEE LIMITED I PHOTOTGRAPHER KEITH HUNTER PHOTOGRAPHY
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Applecross, Gattonside Residential Scottish Borders Applecross is a forever family home in the Scottish Borders. The main aim behind the design was to take all the best elements of the clients’ former home, and add the elements that it missed, in addition to more. The form of the building takes its direction from its context, transitioning between surrounding properties, and maintaining existing views of the Eildon Hills for the neighbours. All the prime living spaces of Applecross also take advantage of the views, with both inside and outside space. The house is contemporary at its heart, but draws from the vernacular. Because of this the house sits confidently, but quietly. The centre of the house is a large family living/kitchen/ dining area, which in turn leads to the first floor living room. ARCHITECT CAMERONS I CLIENT MR AND MRS WILKINSON I MAIN CONTRACTOR FJORDHUS CONSTRUCTION
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Muirskeith Road Residential Newlands
ARCHITECT COLLECTIVE ARCHITECTURE I CLIENT HOME GROUP I SERVICES ENGINEER HAWTHORNE AND BOYLE I PHOTOGRAPHY TOM MANLEY
Collective Architecture was commissioned by Home Group Scotland to design 32 new houses and a children’s home on Glasgow’s south side. The site is located on Muirskeith Road, adjacent to Newlands Conservation area: a leafy neighbourhood with beautiful sandstone villas and generous gardens. Glasgow City Council previously owned the site and an existing 32 bed care home required decommissioning before work started on the new housing. The associated parking and pathways, occupying around a third of the site were also removed. The remainder of the site, arranged as garden space with mature trees, was developed as part of the proposals. Early consultations looked at how to develop the site as sensitively as possible, retaining existing trees and the level of greenery that characterises the site. A concept was developed to pair homes with trees, whether existing or new, in a shared front garden.
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Anderston Phases 4&5 Residential Glasgow The completion of Anderston Phases 4 & 5 concludes the regeneration of Anderston which began in 2004. These final phases provide an additional 206 new build flats, completed in sandstone and brick work, complementing the surrounding context. The development reinstates the missing section of Argyle Street, re-opens important vistas towards the city centre from Glasgow’s West End and vice versa. and stitches Anderston back into the surrounding area of Finnieston. The 189 mid market flats are a car free development, and the 87 flats for social rent are provided with less that 50% provision to the outer edge of the rear of the site. Five new buildings, varying in height from four to seven stories, front the streets around the site. Houldsworth Street to the rear of the site, is now lined with large south facing communal gardens that accommodate the level changes across the whole site.
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ARCHITECT COLLECTIVE ARCHITECTURE I CLIENT SANCTUARY HOUSING ASSOCIATION I PHOTOGRAPHY ANDREW LEE
ARCHITECT DAVID BLAIKIE I CLIENT PRIVATE I SERVICES ENGINEER MCCOLL ASSOCIATES I MAIN CONTRACTOR ZEBRA PROPERTY GROUP
Moray Place Residential Edinburgh, New Town Working within Edinburgh’s Georgian New Town World Heritage Site on a Category A listed town house present’s its own challenges! We were tasked with creating a new cooking/eating space that forms a link between the basement storey and the small east facing garden which could previously only be accessed down two short internal flights of steps through two outhouses. We identified that the solution was to control the transition from historic building to outside space by retaining one of the original outhouses and creating a new addition which had a sequential section arrangement that modified and transitioned as you moved away from the Georgian house. Harvesting natural light and direct sunlight gave complexity to the final design. Existing traditional slated pitch roof with stone walls leads to new pitched roof, south orientated rooflight and timber clad walls leads to pitched and flat roof with limited view out finally leads to flat roof and fully glazed walls. Contemporary interpretation of classic proportioning locates it in Georgian Edinburgh! Due to restricted access the sub-structure was designed to sit on minimal pad-stones to avoid costly excavations. We exploited this to allow the thin floor plate to hover above the garden.
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The Black House Residential Isle of Skye This coastal house is built in a prominent location, being very visible from approaching ferries and the pier. The site is within a wooded area, with a flat plateau at the top, sloping down to a steep rock face meeting the shore. The obvious and easiest place to build would have been on the flat area at the top, which the seller had cleared with this intention. The view is beautiful from here but feels removed from the shore. We wanted to control the drama of the site, as well as exploiting the view we wanted to crate an intimate relationship with the shore and rocky landscape. Our approach was to drop a two storey box into a natural hollow in the bay. When approached from behind the house appears as a modest single storey black gable. From the front a two storey glazed gable cantilevers out dramatically over the rocky foreshore. The idea of control and drama is carried through the interior. As you descend the staircase the view through the frameless glazed gable dominates the main living space. The house id filled with books, art and objects but everything has a place and it doesn’t feel cluttered. The end result is quite sculptural. The entrance lobby is narrow and unremarkable, but from there you enter a double height library/stairwell lit from above, the view is not yisible but the drama of the light from above and the verticality gives you a sense of the hidden volume of the building.
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ARCHITECT DUALCHAS I CLIENT JULIAN AND DELIA THOMAS I STRUCTURAL ENGINEER IPM ASSOCIATES (SCOTLAND) LTD I SERVICES ENGINEER SCOTTISHSAPASSESSOR I QUANTITY SURVEYOR JON HOWARTH I MAIN CONTRACTOR J&W COOK I PHOTOGRAPHER DAVID BARBOUR
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Ashtree Road Residential
Pollokshaws, Glasgow Our clients challenged us to design a scheme which would appeal to the planners (previous architects who had looked at the site had had little success). They also had a pragmatic requirement for it to adopt pitched roofs, facing brick and timber kit construction. As well as the client’s constraints, which we embraced, we also developed our own stance for the project. This was to create a strong narrative-led architectural work which was site specific and which would create an authentic sense of belonging to the neighbourhood in which it is set. We achieved this by adopting familiar building forms and in the architectural expression of motifs relating to the area’s historic connection to the weaving industry. Our design is realised as two blocks, which synthesise the prevalent typologies found on each street- a ‘Tenement’ block to Ashtree Road, and a ‘Villa’ block to Christian Street. These two blocks are placed at the site boundaries, aligned with the splaying angles of the roads. This configuration provides a strong urban edge while also enclosing a private rear court which overlooks the neighbouring Ashtree Park.
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TrägerHAUS Residential Ayr Road, Giffnock TrägerHAUS is a private dwelling that embodies the traditional aesthetic of its context, with an ambition to create a dynamic and responsive architecture that exists synonymously with its location. Situated on the periphery of the Upper Whitecraigs’ Conservation Area of Glasgow. The development plot was land that originally formed the garden of the Upper Apartment at 39A Ayr Road, a Victorian house, owned by our client Linda and James Laws. James, a founding director of Interspan, a global post-tension concrete firm, and his wife Linda Laws had approached HAUS to create an ambitious family home. It was HAUS' commitment and energy for Glasgow and their design ethos that drew Linda and James to them. HAUS, fascinated by the dual principles of continuity and contrast, produced a series of physical models, testing design concepts, which sought to bind the architecture to the landscape while pushing the expression and detailing in a distinctively contemporary form. Initial inspiration came from traditional single form Scottish dwellings. Born out of a desire to create complementary contrast, HAUS designed a modest entrance elevation to be read as an outbuilding of the original house with no fenestration and simple materials of Caithness Stone, slate and Siberian Larch timber. Beyond the composed, discreet entrance, visitors are received into a three-storey top lit, post tensioned, stone staircase. This central circulation piece serves as the primary wayfinding element, drawing visitors down to the main living space where an uninterrupted kitchen, dining and living space stretches out to the gardens and terraces beyond. An oversailing cantilever holds the master bedroom in suspension above the external living terrace, providing elevated southeasterly views across the golf course and seclusion from the rest of the house. At the lowest level, the majority of the sleeping accommodation prevails. Arrestingly simplistic, each monastic bedroom opens directly to the protected lower gardens through a full height glazed sliding wall. The depth of the lowest level whilst buried within the topography, houses the retreat spa. TragerHAUS has been lovingly designed not just as an investigation in spatial variety, or the pursuit of architectural joy, but its hopeful success lies in its embodiment of a family home.
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ARCHITECT HAUS I CLIENT MR & MRS JAMES LAWS I STRUCTURAL ENGINEER GOODSON ASSOCIATES I SERVICES ENGINEER ATELIER TEN I PHOTOGRAPHY TOM MANLEY
ARCHITECT HAYSOM WARD MILLER I CLIENT PRIVATE I STRUCTURAL ENGINEER PETER BRETT ASSOCIATES I QUANTITY SURVEYOR TORRANCE PARTNERSHIP I MAIN CONTRACTOR SPEY BUILDING AND JOINERY I PHOTOGRAPHY RICHARD FRASER
Lochside House Residential West Highlands Lochside House is a highly successful creation by the team of architect-client-builder. The scale, material choices, use of the setting and integration into the landscape were all excellent. A sustainable building making good use of wood was a delight to visit. The care in the design and in the building of this house makes it an exemplar of its genre.
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Powell Hall Residential North Haugh, St Andrews HLM were appointed in November 2016 to develop proposals for two gap-sites within St Andrews located adjacent to existing student halls of residence. The accommodation brief was to provide nearly 400 new bedroom spaces as part of the largest single expansion of student bedrooms in St. Andrews for over a decade. The two new buildings which are now complete were designed, developed and delivered within two years of appointment. Located within the University of St Andrews North Haugh Campus, Powell Hall (named after Renee Powell the American professional Golfer) provides 205 modern student bedrooms delivered alongside high quality interactive common spaces. Taking its cue from the courtyard blocks of the existing hall, the three-sided u-shaped extension creates a new central courtyard space or quad at its heart. The predominantly four-storey building is principally clad in masonry to the perimeter with a rainscreen cladding to the inner courtyard face. A fifth story is then added to the north side which is expressed as a lightweight rooftop extension, and which sits comfortably within the scale and volume of the surrounding buildings. The colour palette and finishes reflect and enhance the visual amenity within the local North Haugh Campus area. The elevations bounding the site incorporate light buff solid masonry and light grey polished concrete cladding panels. Bronze coloured zinc detailing and surrounds further animate the façades whilst the angled window pods offer views out to the landscape northwards; a small nod to the Category A listed Andrew Melville Hall to the west by James Stirling. The lightweight rooftop extension is also clad in bronze coloured zinc. The social, study and common spaces throughout the building are then located in prominent positions; for example, on the north east and north west corners to the building approach which help activate and animate the façade. These key spaces are then expressed on the facade as ‘pop-out’ boxes clad in zinc. A double height space at ground and first floor to the west provides social and common space close to the existing hall and as a prominent active ground floor frontage to the new annexe. Students are drawn through these spaces upon entering the building along the route to the main vertical circulation cores as a means of encouraging interaction and engagement between students.
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ARCHITECT HLM I CLIENT UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS I STRUCTURAL ENGINEER WOOLGAR HUNTER I SERVICES ENGINEER ATELIER TEN I QUANTITY SURVEYOR GLEEDS MANAGEMENT SERVICES LIMITED I LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT IRONSIDE FARRAR I INTERIOR DESIGNER HLM I PROJECT MANAGER GLEEDS MANAGEMENT SERVICES LIMITED I MAIN CONTRACTOR SIR ROBERT MCALPINE I PHOTOGRAPHER DAVID BARBOUR
Whitehorn Hall Residential Kennedy Gardens, St Andrews
ARCHITECT HLM I CLIENT UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS AND CAMPUS LIVING VILLAGES JOINT VENTURE I STRUCTURAL ENGINEER WOOLGAR HUNTER I SERVICES ENGINEER ATELIER TEN I QUANTITY SURVEYOR GLEEDS MANAGEMENT SERVICES LIMITED I LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT IRONSIDE FARRAR I INTERIOR DESIGNER HLM I PROJECT MANAGER GLEEDS MANAGEMENT SERVICES LIMITED I MAIN CONTRACTOR SIR ROBERT MCALPINE I PHOTOGRAPHER DAVID BARBOUR
The new Whitehorn Hall lies within the grounds of the existing category B Listed University Hall, on a highly constrained site within the Hepburn Gardens Conservation Area. The existing hall has a very specific character and feel, the design of the new annexe set out to be sympathetic and reinforce this character rather than dilute it. HLM’s design principal was to create a series of collegiate style quads or courtyards which are sympathetic to the scale and massing of Old Wing picking up, where appropriate, on the qualities and features of the existing listed structure. A series of four storey perimeter accommodation blocks encompass the new quads with a centrally located three storey block housing shared common and social facilities over the lower two levels. Named after Katharine Whitehorn, British journalist, writer and columnist and first female Rector of the University, the new hall provides a range of 184 modern student bedrooms. The centrally located double height common and social space create a sense of arrival to the new extension with vibrant and active spaces on ground floor and quieter focussed study areas on the upper levels. Linking directly to the main vertical circulation cores students are drawn through this vibrant social space encouraging interaction and engagement. The colour palette is intended to be sympathetic to the colour and tone of the adjacent sandstone buildings. This is further accentuated by the use of solid masonry and polished concrete products. One of the key aspects of the Hepburn Gardens conservation area is the richness of its Baronial and Gothic roofscape characterised by pitched roofs, chimney stacks, turrets and towers. In keeping with this character, each of the blocks adopt a contemporary zinc pitched roof profil. The use of dormer windows along St Leonards road provides a direct link back to the nearby villas of Hepburn Gardens and Buchanan Gardens as well as Old Wing itself, whilst a modern interpretation of chimney stacks gather ventilation and soil vent extracts. Common living spaces are placed in prominent positions in the plan and are expressed as light polished projecting concrete bays as a reflection of the transomed and mullioned bay windows of Old Wing and the large sandstone villas nearby. These spaces seek to animate and activate the facades and create activity on courtyard elevations.
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St Devenick's Terrace Residential Aberdeen The brief was very simple and restricted in scope. The main requirement was to create a new open plan kitchen and family area on the ground floor to the rear of the existing property by removing an internal load bearing wall. The client also wanted to improve bathroom facilities upstairs. The property is a granite built period home whose front elevation faces St Devenicks Terrace and the Deeside Way. Consequently, the main everyday access to the property is from the parking area and lane at the rear. Access was via a door on the back elevation, through a utility space and door into the cramped and dark kitchen. The property had a large rear garden, but it was divorced from the rooms inside, and there was little opportunity to enjoy a view of the garden from the kitchen. Upstairs a series of alterations had been made to create a small bathroom by installing a very unsatisfactory flat roofed dormer next to an original dormer window. The bathroom was inadequate, the dormer was both visually unappealing and it was leaking. The first main design move was to relocate the rear entrance to the side of the building, in a more convenient and efficient location for the internal floor plan. This created an opportunity to maximise views of the garden to the rear. The internal loadbearing wall was removed to form an open plan space, and utility facilities and ground floor toilet were re-located to the darkest part of the floor plan so that light was maximised in the main kitchen space. A connection to the garden was created by the addition of a frameless oriel window, giving uninterrupted views of the garden by removing the corner of the building. The new window cantilevers to form a deep window seat reveal. The existing first floor dormer was replaced with a contemporary dark grey zinc clad addition, contrasting with the original building and complimenting the existing granite masonry walls and slate roof. The new dormer allows light to flood into a re-arranged bedroom and a new, more spacious bathroom has been formed making use of an existing small window on the rear elevation. Although no floor area has been added, it feels more spacious because it is organised to maximise the available area and the garden is now part of the home which increases the sense of space. The design of window alterations has answered an ordinary brief with a striking, contemporary and unique solution to enhance the appeal of the property.
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ARCHITECT HYVE ARCHITECTS I CLIENT MR FAIRBAIRN & MS DIXON I STRUCTURAL ENGINEER GRAEME CRAIG CONSULTING ENGINEER I MAIN CONTRACTOR GRAEME CRAIG CONSULTING ENGINEER I PHOTOGRAPHER DAVID BARBOUR
The Steading Drumlithie Residential Croft Road
ARCHITECT HYVE ARCHITECTS I CLIENT MR AND MRS LESLIE I STRUCTURAL ENGINEER GRAEME CRAIG CONSULTING ENGINEER I PHOTOGRAPHER DAVID BARBOUR
HYVE Architects were appointed to create additional living spaces to a steading in Drumlithie for a family with 2 young children. The new area was to provide enough space to accommodate an open plan dining area and a new master bedroom with en-suite shower facilities. The property was surrounded by a large garden but the garden was only accessible from the side through a small patio door of the living room. The clients wanted to maximise value from their budget and so HYVE suggested converting the existing garage and building a small extension rather than adding on a significant floor area. A new extension to the rear of the property joins the existing cottage to the new garage conversion, while at the same time, providing a much better connection with the garden. Part of the extension takes the original pitched roof shape of the steading while the connection between the extension and the garage is designed as a simple flat roofed link. The garage is converted into a large, light and bright master bedroom, incorporating an en-suite shower room and walk-in-wardrobe. Internally the pitched roof is open up to the ridge within the new dining space, making the new extension feel spacious and light. Roof lights are installed in this roof to maximise daylight into the new room. The dining space is set several steps lower than the original cottage, which has been done to make a much improved connection to the sloping garden beyond. As a result the garden is much better used and has become a real outdoor room. A very simple and cost effective palette of materials has been chosen. A slate roof and wet dash harled walls match the existing cottage. Windows and doors are timber/ aluminium composite, dark grey to contrast with walls.
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Queens Road Residential Stonehaven The clients first approached Hyve in 2015 to explore options for their Edwardian terraced house. It was already a lovely family home but it was fast becoming very tight for living space with a growing family of five children and a dog. They had aspirations to build a contemporary extension, light filled, opening up the house to the garden. Queens Road is just within Stonehaven conservation area, an attractive Edwardian terrace, situated looking east towards the town centre and the sea. The house itself is a 3 storey town house with a basement for storage. The existing ground floor plan followed a typical layout with an entrance hall, stairway and living space to the front and kitchen/ dining space with a separate long narrow utility space to the rear. From the utility you could access a tiered deck with steps down into the west facing garden. Through the design process a simple pitch form developed, zinc clad with a fully glazed gable onto the garden. This allowed for an open plan kitchen, dining space living space which focuses out into the garden. Opening up right across the back wall of the house has created a generous the kitchen within the existing house and dining space between the old and new, with steps and a glass balustrade leading down into the living space and out into the garden. The utility space and family shower room have been located centrally to the plan, more accessible form the rest of the house and allowing the main living spaces to maximize the natural light available.
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ARCHITECT HYVE I CLIENT JACKIE AND RICHARD COCHRANE I STRUCTURAL ENGINEER GRAEME CRAIG CONSULTING ENGINEER I MAIN CONTRACTOR SUNNSYSIDE CONSTRUCTION I PHOTOGRAPHER DAVID BARBOUR
The Bothy Residential Aberdeenshire The house comprised of an existing two storey three bed cottage which had been previously extended forming a link to the adjacent single storey storage bothy. Our brief for this first stage was to create a family home, converting the unheated bothy from storage into living and kitchen space and included a design for the next stage of the project re-working the existing cottage and previous extension to create 5 bedrooms and a dining space. This project focused on the first stage which was to convert the unheated bothy into the kitchen and living space for the house. Creating a new entrance was key, as the existing entrance was hard to find, tucked away behind the house, the new entrance porch brings you into the centre of the bothy space dividing it into open plan kitchen to the west and living space to the east. Large windows in the gable of the bothy give access to the spectacular views out to sea. The roof structure was opened up throughout, to make use of the full volume of the space, whilst maintaining the original rafters and trusses. New openings were formed in the bothy walls to connect into the existing extension, which has become the dining space, centrally placed in the house, making the most of the views to the east and the west. The existing ground floor layout of the house involved numerous linked rooms to gain access to the upstairs bedrooms. The design for stage two involves re-positioning of the stair and reworking the layout to create additional rooms and bedrooms all within the existing footprint. The work to the existing cottage and stairs will form a future project. The now light filled spacious bothy has createda great family living space, linked into the existing house, whilst allowing for the future planned improvements to the house. Views from within the house and bothy now allow them to fully appreciate the special coastal location of the house.
ARCHITECT HYVE ARCHITECTS I CLIENT MR & MRS ROXBURGH I STRUCTURAL ENGINEER MACLEOD JORDAN I QUANTITY SURVEYOR ALAN CRICHTON I PHOTOGRAPHER DAVID BARBOUR I MAIN CONTRACTOR BURNS CONSTRUCTION
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Kesson Court Residential Haugh Road, Elgin This project provides replacement amenity housing in Elgin on behalf of Hanover (Scotland) Housing Association comprising 21 new two bedroom apartments including three wheelchair accessible cottages. . At the heart of the development is a communal garden. Based around this, higher density flatted dwellings provide a ‘bookend’ to the north and a row of three cottages to the south address the street and tie into the residential scale of the existing dwellings opposite. Vehicle access has been restricted to the north and south boundary allowing the main body of the site to remain car free. It was key to the design of the scheme to provide taller accommodation to the north and lower to the south to minimise overshadowing of the communal garden, garden room, planting and seating areas. This layout helps minimise the built footprint and maximises the (permeable) landscaped areas, whilst achieving the best orientation for all the dwellings in terms of passive solar gain, with the aim of helping reduce the energy consumption of the development relating to heating and lighting requirements. Trees were specified to assist the brise soleil fitted to the south elevation of the flats to provide natural solar shading and the landscaped garden is designed to encourage communal use. The adjacent River Lossie has a history of flooding and the the new buildings were to replace existing flood-damaged Hanover blocks on the site. As such the ground floor construction was designed to be resilient to potential flood risk using masonry construction, whilst the upper floors are lighter weight, highly insulated timber frame construction with timber cladding in order to provide a softer aesthetic. Sedum roofs to the flats help mitigate rainwater runoff. The cladding was designed to be an openjointed rainscreen, neatly mitred at corners and cut with vertical shadow gaps at each window opening. There was a requirement to accommodate bats within the project so proprietary bat boxes were incorporated within the exterior walls at the west end of the flats and the timber cladding cut neatly to suit. Each property is fitted with a heat interface unit (HIU) from a centralised boiler, providing instantaneous direct hot water and indirect secondary heating, which omits the requirement for individual gas boilers and provides both the housing association and residents with a highly efficient and easily managable centralised heating system.
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ARCHITECT ICOSIS I CLIENT HANOVER (SCOTLAND) HOUSING ASSOCIATION I STRUCTURAL ENGINEER CAMERON + ROSS I SERVICES ENGINEER RYBKA I QUANTITY SURVEYOR ARMOUR & PARTNERS I LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT RANKINFRASER I MAIN CONTRACTOR MORRISON CONSTRUCTION I PHOTOGRAPHER KEITH HUNTER PHOTOGRAPHY
ARCHITECT ISA I CLIENT HEATHVIEW ESTATES I STRUCTURAL ENGINEER AMA CONSULTING ENGINEERS I SERVICES ENGINEER ILEC & IMEC I PROJECT MANAGER CMC I MAIN CONTRACTOR TOLENT CONSTRUCTION I PHOTOGRAPHER PAUL RIDDLE
Stamford Hill Residential London Planning consent was originally obtained by Stockwool for 80 residential units along with a mix of office and retail uses. It was subsequently agreed that this should be decreased to 68 larger apartments in response to the cultural requirements of the local Jewish community. This change in numbers and layouts required a comprehensive re-design while working within the parameters of the existing planning consent.
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Buccleuch Place & Meadow Lane Residential Edinburgh jmarchitects were lead consultant on the Buccleuch Place & Meadow Lane project as part of the University of Edinburgh’s estate regeneration programme. The project provides student accommodation within thirteen refurbished Grade ‘B’ Georgian townhouses to Buccleuch Place, new purpose-built student accommodation to Meadow Lane with a central communal building set within landscaped gardens. A subterranean Energy Centre connects the development to the University’s Central CHP plant. Through an extensive consultation period, a sensitive approach to this historic environment has resulted in a design that is sympathetic to the conservation area. The high quality finishes and approach to landscaping create a unique student experience while enhancing the regeneration of the area. Working in depth with Accommodation Services, through extensive workshops and meetings, we have also worked to deliver site specific interior concepts for both the new builds and the refurbishment. At Meadow Lane a cluster of new accommodation has been provided containing 136 en-suite bedrooms arranged in 22 flats with shared kitchen/dining facilities. The central location and open design of this building assists in enhancing the sense of community and place.
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ARCHITECT JMARCHITECTS I CLIENT THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH I PHOTOGRAPHY CHRIS HUMPHREYS
Liberton Barns Residential Edinburgh
ARCHITECT LBA I CLIENT GLENCAIRN PROPERTIES
These three townhouses capture the essecnce of rural living whilst only 15 minutes from Edinburgh’s city centre. The concept behind the development was driven by the three-bay existing steel frame, timber clad and crinkly tin roof argricultural shed that stood on the the site originally. The reimagined, contemporary design for each property includes a fully glazed courtyard that have been cored out of the form to create lightwells and external spaces for the properties to open up onto. With bedrooms on the ground floor, the open plan living on the first floor extends the entire length of the dwelling with views across open fields towards the historic Liberton Tower and the Royal Observatory. At night the development comes to life as the timber ‘Hit and Miss’ cladding, which during the day proivides privacy, reveals glimpses of the life and activity within.
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5 Melville Crescent Residential Edinburgh Originally built in 1855, the grandeur and elegance of this impressive ‘A’ Listed building draws inspiration from Edinburgh’s Georgian architecture. Carefully restored and reimagined, this historic West End property now offers five spacious apartments, each individually designed to make the most of the building’s fine architectural features, classic proportions and outdoor features; redefining modern city centre living. The kitchens have been customised by Kitchens International and are striking additions to each of the five apartments. The Leicht kitchen benefits from top of the range Siemens appliances and include an induction hob, in bench pop up extraction, combination convection microwave and steam oven, integrated fridge/freezer, dishwasher, insinkerator and Quooker 3-in-1 boiling tap. The principle concept for the kitchen design was to marry the tones of the room; the wall units to the walls; and the kitchen island to the flooring so both elements effectively vanish within the space. One of the many beautiful features is the Master Bedroom of Apartment Three. It exploits the refurbished floor to ceiling windows and timber shutters to maximise natural light in the space. This natural light is drawn through to the internal entrance hall via clear storey frameless glass intersecting the cornice. It forms the top of a partition which creates circulation space to access the two bedrooms. The cut-out combined with the fawn coloured 100% wool carpet and the tones of the original fireplace, accentuates the luxurious, expansive feel. Another feature is the dark brown exposed roof ties in the top floor flat. These were revealed during the strip out and were kept exposed adding to the ‘feel’ of the apartment and allowing for high ceilings. The ties marry the flooring used throughout the development; an engineered timber board, laid in a chevron pattern with a bespoke dark chocolate coloured oiled finish. Floor to ceiling sliding doors, 3m tall by 4m wide, open onto a private garden in the lower ground floor apartment. The doors allow light to permeate the garden level property and further open the living, dining and kitchen space. The newly defined building enhances the apartments’ interior space whilst seamlessly and sensitively blending ‘old’ and ‘new’ in a contemporary setting within the West End of Edinburgh’s New Town.
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ARCHITECT LBA I CLIENT PRIVATE I STRUCTURAL ENGINEER DAVID NARRO ASSOCIATES I QUANTITY SURVEYOR AXIOM I MAIN CONTRACTOR SJS
Briongos MacKinnon House Residential Strathaven Airfield Strathaven Airfield is the oldest continually used airstrip in Scotland. It is now a busy and active centre for micro-lighting and the owners commissioned Richard Murphy Architects to design a house for themselves to be situated parallel to the runway. To allow for maximum supervision and minimum invasion of privacy, the main rooms of the house are on the first floor with only a garage and extra bedrooms on the ground floor. The structure is a simple cantilevered steel frame and the roof and wall cladding is mill-finished corrugated aluminium, a material which resonates with local farm cladding and indeed the cladding of the adjacent hangars.
ARCHITECT RICHARD MURPHY ARCHITECTS I CLIENT MARTA BRIONGOS & COLIN MACKINNON I STRUCTURAL ENGINEER CREATE ENGINEERING I QUANTITY SURVEYOR MCLEOD & AITKEN I PHOTOGRAPHER MARTIN LAMBIE
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Donaldson's School Residential Edinburgh This significant project includes the restoration and conversion of the historic Playfair building and Gate Lodges into a collection of high quality apartments and the creation of new build housing to the north of the site. The former Donaldson's School for the Deaf is one of the most distinctive buildings in Edinburgh and was designed by Edinburgh's foremost architect, William Playfair, in the 1840s. BuiIt in the style of a Jacobethan Palace, the 124,840 sq ft quadrangular form and central tower with domed octagonal turrets is arguably one of the most important structures in Edinburgh. The site is being undertaken in partnership by two developers, each of whom have appointed the practice for their respective sections. City & Country is responsible for the restoration and conversion of the Grade A listed William Playfair building into a range of residential apartments whilst CALA Homes will be constructing new apartments on the north side of the site. The proposal consists of a crescent of new build apartments to the north of the site and conversion of the existing building into a series of mezzanine apartments. The development will also feature a newly created half moon shaped landscaped garden area between the Playfair building and the crescent of new build properties. The proposed landscape scheme aims to enhance the feeling and perception of being on the rural edge of an historic city, in much the same way as Playfair intended.
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ARCHITECT RICHARD MURPHY ARCHITECTS I CLIENT CALA HOMES & CITY AND COUNTRY I INTERIOR DESIGNER ALEXANDER JAMES INTERIORS I MAIN CONTRACTOR BAM CONSTRUCTION I ACOUSTIC CONSULTANT RMP
Guthrie Street Extension Residential Carnoustie The existing dwelling is traditional in layout, with three bedrooms, a bathroom, family room, lounge and kitchen. The north facing rooms of the dwelling have large windows and light however the rear south facing rooms have small windows and openings not utilising the south facing natural light. The kitchen is tucked away to the rear of the house and feels separated, the room is small and cramped with no room to relax or spend time. The roofspace is large in size but restricted headheight, accessed via a drop down ladder within the store. The ground floor alterations and extension are primarily to the rear of the dwelling. The proposal will demolish the former outbuidings and create a new modern extension. By extending the property out as far as the existing ‘kitchen’ and creating slapping to the existing ‘family room’ it allows for one large open planned kitchen family and dining space for cooking and relaxing. The new family room has large sliding folding doors out to decking. The large windows allow for natural light to spill deep into the plan and also allows for the open planned space to connect seamlessly with the garden and external spaces. The existing kitchen space is upgraded and is reconfigured as a utility and wc space with direct access from the garden.
ARCHITECT VOIGT ARCHITECTS I CLIENT PRIVATE I STRUCTURAL ENGINEER MCKINNEY NICOLSON CIVIL AND STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS
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A House in the Woods Residential Lauder, Scottish Borders Located five miles from the market town of Lauder, in the rolling agricultural landscape of the Scottish Borders, Pyatshaw is a small hamlet comprising of a loose collection of houses; each house occupying small clearings between areas of dense woodland. In 2014, we were asked to design a house within this settlement, in a site bounded on the north side by a fast-flowing burn and on the south by a narrow road. The initial design problem was finding an area large enough to locate the house: flood risk in the flatter areas adjacent to the river made development impossible and arboricultural and topographic surveys indicated steep slopes and bands of highquality, protected trees occupying a large proportion of the site. We identified an area towards the western side of the site that, although overgrown, had no trees of any maturity, and which we judged just large enough to locate a new house. Within this area was a flat, raised plateau; the highest portion of the site and this became the location for the living space. The extensive root systems of the adjacent trees as well as a very constrained budget, ruled out using large scale retaining structures, and suggested that the internal levels of the house should follow the slope. This led to the development of a very dense section, with the accommodation split across five floor levels. An entrance level, bedroom and bathroom are at the lowest level with another bedroom on the floor directly above. A further bedroom is set at a mid-level, with an attic room directly above that. All of these spaces are accessed via a fully glazed hallway to the west side that contains steps, doorways and places to sit, all animated by shifting, tree-filtered light. Steel beams, columns and timber roof joists are exposed to reveal the form of construction and to give texture and depth to the ceiling plane. At the end of this ascending route is the wedge-shaped living space, where you enter into an unexpectedly tall space below a rooflight. Externally, the pitched roof building form presents a simple gable-end to the street. This belies the internal complexity, but locates the house in the local vernacular. The roof planes are zinc, while walls are predominantly clad in a dark stained timber rainscreen. A lighter coloured, blockwork plinth and steps provide a solid base for the building and contributes to a strongly horizontal dynamic which provides an effective contrast to the slope of the hill side.
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ARCHITECT T.AP. I CLIENT PRIVATE I STRUCTURAL ENGINEER MCCOLL ASSOCIATES I PROJECT MANAGER IAN MIDDLEMISS I PHOTOGRAPHER DAVID BARBOUR
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ARCHITECT TRAIL ARCHITECTS I CLIENT ARK ESTATES I STRUCTURAL ENGINEER NEIL ROSS CONSULTING ENGINEERS I SERVICES ENGINEER CDMM I QUANTITY SURVEYOR MCLEOD & AITKEN I PROJECT MANAGER TORRANCE PARTNERSHIP
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The Raining's Stairs Residential Inverness The Raining’s Stairs development reinvigorates an important part of Inverness; replacing a long-vacant ‘problem’ site, which had suffered from considerable anti-social behaviour, with a building of significant architectural quality and profound, transformational benefits to the community. . Inverness-based developer Ark Estates worked collaboratively with The Highland Council, Highland Housing Alliance and a design team led by Trail Architects to unlock the full potential of the site, which is opposite Inverness Castle and presents great views across the city. The architecture takes cues from the historic, traditional character of the area, while using contemporary materials and detailing – creating a progressive and optimistic presence, while being sympathetic to its context. The proposals focussed on maximising integration with the existing stairs, enhancing connections to the unique history of the site – and simplifying access to the residential properties. The massing of the proposal is based on traditional pitched-roof forms, arranged to sit comfortably alongside neighbouring buildings – particularly when viewed from the Castle. The increasing terraced heights of the building responds to the sloping site – the gabled roofs appear to cascade down the slope. The result is a scheme which gives enough accommodation to make the proposal viable, without being over-developed. Engaging the significant level change (27m), and very limited site access was critical. This was managed by creating terraces to carry steel platforms, upon which the timber kit superstructure was placed. Crucially, extensive off-site construction and pre-fabrication simplified the construction programme. The use of lightweight materials in cladding the walls and roofs creates a sharp, attractive façade which was quick to install. The project has already transformed this key central location within Inverness. The site was a blight on the city which caused detrimental impacts to adjacent businesses and the broader community. This development has significantly changed that. Fraser Grieve, Scottish Council for Development and Industry (SCDI) Highlands and Islands regional director said: "This is making a major contribution to the regeneration of this part of the city centre which can only be good for the local economy."
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The Glass Room, Blackhill House Residential Perthshire Blackhill House sits in an outstanding, elevated position above Tay valley in Perthshire; it is a mid 18th Century Category B listed building originally built as an inn, serving the old drove road that passes just to the east. The historic house has only small windows and low-ceilings however and a new space was desired that would make the most of the outlook across the expanse of lawn to the landscape beyond. It was agreed that a new extension on the eastern gable end was most suitable; in terms of its massing in relation to the existing house and also because it could utilise an existing door opening in the gable wall, providing access into the kitchen. The floor level of the proposed extension needed to correspond with the existing internal floor level, but this left it half a metre below the level of the garden which rises up around the house. The concept of the glass-room was developed, where the new extension floor is excavated into the ground-plane and hovering above is a roof supported on an elegant steel structure. Between roof and ground is an enclosure of minimalist glass walls, detailed so as to appear to drop straight into the surface of the lawn and with the southern facade able to be drawn back so that this space entirely opens up to the garden. Low, tiled walls act as benches around the perimeter of the space and extend through the glass wall to define an external paved area and steps. A series of incrementally curved, birch-faced, plywood fins span across the width of the space, creating a shallow dome under which to sit and take in the view.
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ARCHITECT T.A.P. I CLIENT PRIVATE I STRUCTURAL ENGINEER ENTUITIVE I MAIN CONTRACTOR CAMPBELL CONSTRUCTION CREIFF I PHOTOGRAPHER DAVID BARBOUR
Blinkbonny Road Residential Falkirk
ARCHITECT ARKA ARCHITECTS I CLIENT ADAM TOLEMAN I STRUCTURAL ENGINEER FORWARD ENGINEERS I MAIN CONTRACTOR MG BUILDING SERVICES
This site was located at the northern end of Blinkbonny Road with views over a small parkland area to the Forth and Clyde canal and the Forth valley beyond. Before the build a handsome, Victorian double villa sat at the end of the road but did not address the park or canal at all. Arka used the scale of the Victorian house together with a sloping site to create a three storey townhouse, built from a continental brick that referenced the sandstone of the old villa. One part of the dwelling recalls Scottish tower houses with their solid walls and small windows. The other side is more like a pavilion in the park with big windows capturing the views. Low carbon technologies with ‘Passive House’ levels of insulation, solar thermal hot water and heat recovery ventilation make the house incredibly efficient to run.
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ARCHITECT ARKA ARCHITECTS I CLIENT PRIVATE I STRUCTURAL ENGINEER FOWARD ENGINEERS I MAIN CONTRACTOR MG BUILDING SERVICES
Hunters Residential Falkirk This was a unique project to redevelop the buildings and grounds of a former convent. The site is located close to Falkirk town centre in an area known as Arnothill which itself is closely related to the line of the Antoinine Wall (WHS). The site was occupied by a cluster of buildings which formed a Carmelite convent until 2014. The original building dates back to 1855 when it was built for the Rev. Lewis Hay Irving and became the Carmelite convent in 1931. Further extensions were added to the original building in the 50s, 60s and 70s. These extensions formed additional accommodation, a library and a Chapel. Arka was tasked with designing an overall masterplan for the upper area of the site, which comprised the original buildings as well as the southern garden ground site which was sold off as separate plots. In total there were five different clients which we worked with to develop two new villas and five apartments within the northern site area as well as seven new houses set within the southern site area. Whilst being sympathetic to its context with its appropriate scale, mass and materiality, the proposals also embrace the true spirit of Arnothill, in that it captures the original Victorian vision of an area defined by aspirational, statement buildings set within well landscaped grounds.
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Blackburn Partnership Centre Gorbals Health & Care Centre Woodside Health & Care Centre The Jack Copland Centre Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice Balfour Hospital
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Blackburn Partnership Centre Health Blackburn, West Lothian Hoskins Architects was commissioned to design Blackburn Partnership Centre in West Lothian to bring together a range of primary care and community services for both NHS Lothian and West Lothian Council. Prior to completion of the new building, services were being operated from a variety of premises in the village that were reaching the end of their serviceable life and were no longer suited for effective service delivery. The new centre offers the community a range of co-located services delivered within a modern, purpose-built facility. The project was delivered by Hub South East and built by Graham Construction Ltd. Arranged over two floors, the 3,000 m2 centre was designed to combine a library, sports hall, community centre, early years centre, youth centre with a GP surgery on the ground floor, with a new General Dental Practice and support spaces on the first floor. At the western end, the building entrance/ reception, NHS waiting space and reading areas overlook a newly created public square which connects the building with the adjacent Mill Centre shopping centre, at the heart of the village. Individual departments are arranged around a central, double-height internal street which is open-plan to the library. Consulting rooms look out onto a private courtyard at the rear and the early years centre has a dedicated garden to the east of the building. The main material used to clad the building is a pale ‘tumbled’ brick which has a mix of dark grey and buff with a light-coloured mortar. Large areas of curtain walling and timber define the entrance and publicly accessible rooms at the front of the building. The building achieved BREEAM ‘Excellent’ at design stage and incorporates roof mounted photovoltaic panels. The project welcomed users in autumn 2017.
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ARCHITECT HOSKINS ARCHITECTS I CLIENT HUB SOUTH EAST SCOTLAND I STRUCTURAL ENGINEER WILL RUDD DAVIDSON I MAIN CONTRACTOR GRAHAM CONSTRUCTION I PHOTOGRAPHER DAPPLE PHOTOGRAPHY I ACOUSTIC CONSULTANT RMP
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Gorbals Health & Care Centre Health Gorbals, Glasgow The New Gorbals Health and Care Centre combines four GP services, Dental services and a variety of social care services under one roof, improving health services locally and improving the Gorbals area. Forming part of the Crown Street masterplan for the regeneration of the Greater Gorbals area, the project proposed a new integrated Health & Care Centre bringing together a variety of local health and social care services with a strong civic identity. The building re-establishes a perimeter block on the site, creating a new civic space and giving a sense of place to the wider site. It is designed around two open courtyard spaces that provide daylight, natural ventilation and a strong visual amenity throughout, enhancing the feeling of wellbeing for both patients and staff. Using a simple and robust material palette The New Gorbals Health & Care Centre provides the local community with an integrated, welcoming and uplifting environment. The Gorbals residents have seen an improvement in physical environment and patient pathways, with quicker referral pathways between professionals under one roof and a more coordinated approach to recovery.
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Woodside Health & Care Centre Health Glasgow The new Woodside Health and Care Centre has been built to replace the existing 1970’s facility which has come to the end of its useful life. The existing facility was an exemplar design at the time and was replicated over several sites. The new centre brings together a range of primary and community care services that were located across various sites in Glasgow with the intention that Greater Clyde and Glasgow NHS can offer a more integrated and efficient service for the local community. Glasgow is a city characterised by its historic pre-1900 adherence to built for against the street edge and this typology generally followed a grid form of rectangular blocks. Where these grids intersected with the more organic nature of peripheral road development special types evolved to deal with these junctions. These became know as ‘gushet blocks’ and a number of distinctive corners historically existed in the Maryhill and Garscube road corridors including work by Greek Thomson. Woodside is one of these The new building brings a significant urban scale and presence back to the area and each corner of the gushet contains an entrance marked by precast concrete panels containing artwork reliefs designed by Bespoke Atelier. Each entrance defines a key component of the brief; The Health Centre; Community Addictions and Elderly Daycare. The predominant material facing the urban street edge is a hand-cut brick whilst the inner courtyard, clad in western red cedar reflects the quieter, softer nature of these less defensible elevations. The street elevations reflect the local materiality of the surrounding developments however the subtle detailing of the brick with its double string coursing and large window openings pays homage to the historical nature of the area (when it was largely tenamental) and at the same time breaks down the massing of the skin. Due to the change in level across the site the lower ground floor contains the Glasgow City Council Day Care Centre and its associated courtyard garden. The ground floor is the public level containing community services reception, community accommodation, a Dental Practise and a Pharmacy. The first Floor is a semi-public level containing the GP consulting rooms, waiting areas and receptions – all orientated around a top lit glazed central atrium space. The second floor is a private level for staff only.
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ARCHITECT PAGE\PARK I CLIENT NHS GREATER GLASGOW & CLYDE & HUB WEST SCOTLAND I STRUCTURAL ENGINEER BAKER HICKS I SERVICES ENGINEER CUNDALL I QUANTITY SURVEYOR THOMAS & ADAMSON I LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT IAN WHITE ASSOCIATES I MAIN CONTRACTOR MORGAN SINDALL
The Jack Copland Centre Health 52 Research Ave North, Edinburgh
ARCHITECT REIACH & HALL I CLIENT SCOTTISH NATIONAL BLOOD TRANSFUSION SERVICE I PHOTOGRAPHY ANDREW LEE
A building with highly technical functional requirements presents a particular challenge. There is always a fear (in architect and client) that the functional requirements will not be met – that the adjacencies, flow separations, pressure cascades etc will not be achieved. All too often such facilities become merely built realisations of solutions to a series of technical problems. Good examples are separated from others by how the challenges are met, and the quality of environment that results. The National Centre is not a processing machine, it is a place of work for around 400 people. Many are existing staff from four different centres, who have been asked to move their place of employment and to work alongside people who may be strangers to them. SNBTS were keenly aware that creating a successful team under these circumstances was a challenge which could be greatly assisted by a sympathetic building design. Our response was to create a building whose focus is contact between departments and areas, and the people who work in them. This starts with the architectural diagram, which divides the accommodation into strips which are placed alongside each other, maximising length of interface (and easing the topological flow and adjacency problem), with Testing and Research placed above Manufacturing (enabling a 3d solution to the flow requirements). A central arcade, through which all staff pass on their way to work, contains communal functions such as cafÊ and CPD space. At the upper level, a gallery within this arcade is the connecting corridor between Testing and Research laboratories. The departmental boundaries are then dissolved by making them, as far as possible, of glass.
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ARCHITECT RYDER I CLIENT THE PRINCE & PRINCESS OF WALES HOSPICE I STRUCTURAL ENGINEER FAIRHURST, WOOLGAR HUNTER I SERVICES ENGINEER ATELIER TEN I QUANTITY SURVEYOR AECOM I LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT ERZ I PROJECT MANAGER TURNER & TOWNSEND
Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice Health Bellahouston Park, Glasgow The hospice, located within Glasgow’s Bellahouston Park and surrounded by a context of historically significant villas and cottages, benefits from a civic presence with a form which mediates between the city it serves and its parkland landscape setting. To negate the potential sprawl of the complex brief and adjacencies, the accommodation has been reduced to four interconnected villas that reduce the overall perception of the massing to a human scale. The inpatient unit is based on the Sengetun model (meaning bed courtyard) which makes it easier for patients to identify, orientate themselves and feel comfortable within a smaller group. It also supports patients who may be easily confused and have sensory impairments of dementia.
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Balfour Hospital Health Kirkwall
ARCHITECT KEPPIE DESIGN I CLIENT NHS ORKNEY I STRUCTURAL ENGINEER AECOM I SERVICES ENGINEER TUV SUD I MAIN CONTRACTOR ROBERTSON
The hospital has been designed to put people first and make a positive contribution to the environment, local community and economy. In a challenging environment and exposed site location, the concept behind the design was one of protection and shielding from the extreme weather conditions. The curve of the building protects the main entrance space and inpatient accommodation and is a reference and acknowledgement to the historical architectural form unique to the Islands. The challenge was to split a relatively large building down into distinct areas or districts, with separate identities, but unified as part of the ‘town’ plan. An interrelated series of ‘streets’ and spaces are situated along with patterns of established movement, arranged around a single central hub. From this public space, wayfinding is easy and intuitive and space is visually connected with external courtyards to further remove the traditional institutional associations. The new building accommodates a diverse range of departments which are designed to be flexible both at the user level, supporting complex staffing conditions, and for future expansion and service planning. Accommodation comprises of flexible integrated wards, and public arrival facilities.
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Arcadia at Easter Bush The Bayes Centre North East Campus St John’s Primary School Alyth Primary UWS EcoCampus Largs Academy West Calder High School Northumbria University Architecture Building 74 Lister Learning Centre 75 Bertha Park High School
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Arcadia at Easter Bush Education Roslin The building is orientated around a central ‘plaza’ space, providing a large flexible space in the heart of the building, this optimises supervision and reduces the need for internal corridors. This large central space acts as a focal point for the whole Nursery, helping promote the notion of community and identity. The building's design optimises the fantastic rural setting of the Nursery, the principal rooms are orientated towards the rolling fields and mature tree belt to the south, the fields often filled with sheep and horses. Each playroom has full height glazing, optimising daylight and views out, with a covered external play loggia, providing a sheltered external pay area if the weather is poor, and glare and solar control of the weather are good.
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ARCHITECT ATKINS I CLIENT THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
The Bayes Centre Education Edinburgh
ARCHITECT BENNETTS ASSOCIATES I STRUCTURAL ENGINEER BURO HAPPOLD I SERVICES ENGINEER BURO HAPPOLD I QUANTITY SURVEYOR TURNER AND TOWNSEND I LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT IRONSIDE FARRAR I PROJECT MANAGER FAITHFUL AND GOULD I MAIN CONTRACTOR MCLAUGHLIN AND HARVEY I PHOTOGRAPHER KEITH HUNTER PHOTOGRAPHY
The Bayes Centre is a new world-class business and learning centre for the University of Edinburgh which brings together academics and students working in the fields of data technology, design informatics, maths and robotics with start-up / spin-out companies and industrial collaborators. It is a building worthy of Edinburgh’s reputation and leadership in these fields. The Bayes Centre marks the final phase of the Potterrow Development, following the completion of the much-lauded Informatics Forum and Dugald Stewart Building also by Bennetts Associates and completed in 2008. A charismatic academic lead championed the move to a more collaborative, open-plan workspace. Despite initial reluctance from those used to working in a traditional cellular way, the new working environment has been embraced with great enthusiasm. The new building follows the principles of the original design for the School of Informatics and uses the same external materials: local sandstone to the outside of the block and polished white concrete to the interior, with prominent feature windows and double-height balconies on a city scale. The entrance colonnade on Potterrow and the oak lining to protected walls and soffits give coherence to the whole block. The atriums of the School of Informatics and Bayes now face each other across a new public courtyard, which will be used for events such as graduations, design shows and festival performances. Internally the building was designed as a cousin of the School of Informatics rather than a twin. As the ethos was to encourage interaction between different academic groups, spaces for serendipitous encounters are carefully designed. The tiered atrium has numerous gathering spaces, the open circulation and stairs allow people to meet in passing, the fourth-floor roof garden has stunning views of Arthur’s Seat and the ground floor café complete with a museum of ‘antique’ robots is always busy with meetings, solitary working and socialising. The ground and first floors feature large Edinburgh Centre for Robotics labs, where, for example, the robot Valkyrie is being developed in conjunction with NASA for Mars landings. These are placed at the heart of the building, making this groundbreaking work very visible for the first time.
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North East Campus Education Dundee North East Campus is a three-stream, 800 pupil primary school with integrated assisted learning departments and 150 early years nursery places. The building plan form is that of a simple square. A monolithic, protective brick envelope wraps itself around the hidden heart of the building; a voluminous top-lit central atrium. Generous and varied multifunctional spaces inhabit and surround the atrium: Intimately sized study pods project into the volume clad in protective slatted timber. An open plan “learning bridge” bisects the space on the first floor. Library spaces connect into the atrium at every level. Vitally, every one of these breakout spaces is designed to connect visually with every other. This connected harmony at the building core lends itself to a modern style of flexible teaching, set free from the confines of the traditional classroom.
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ARCHITECT HOLMES MILLER I CLIENT DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL I SERVICES ENGINEER ATELIER TEN I PROJECT MANAGER DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL I MAIN CONTRACTOR ROBERTSON CONSTRUCTION TAYSIDE
St John's Primary School Education Edinburgh
ARCHITECT HOLMES MILLER I CLIENT CITY OF EDINBURGH COUNCIL I STRUCTURAL ENGINEER AECOM I SERVICES ENGINEER BLACKWOOD PARTNERSHIP I QUANTITY SURVEYOR DOIG & SMITH I PROJECT MANAGER CURRIE & BROWN I MAIN CONTRACTOR GRAHAM CONSTRUCTION
St John’s primary school responds primarily to its context and its education function. The school is deliberately understated reacting to its residential setting in relation to siting, scale and massing, materiality and fenestration/ pattern which are appropriate for this area of Edinburgh. High quality white precast features at the entrances signal the school and nursery entrances, provide a welcoming and inviting approach to the school and indicate a civic presence in the street. The school has been orientated to enjoy magnificent views towards Arthur’s Seat from the playgrounds and from the firstfloor corridor. Internally the plan reinterprets the SFT pilot primary school which has been adapted to meet the education client demands, with innovative separate break out areas and cosy atmospheres which promote the curriculum delivery and wellbeing of its occupants.
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Alyth Primary Education Perth & Kinross jmarchitects were commissioned by Hub East Central to prepare designs for a new Primary School for the Town. We acted as the lead design consultant for Perth & Kinross Council and latterly Marshall Construction, the Main Contractor. The project has included the design of a decant plan for the primary school, nursery and community facilities, consolidating the site functions into part of the existing Junior High School, the demolition of various extensions to the original circa 1850 Victorian School to its original form, refurbishment of the Listed building to provide community facilities and a substantial, new-build extension to accommodate the Primary School and nursery. Due to its listed status and the strong local affection for the existing Victorian School, considerable consultation was required with Historic Scotland and the local Planning department. The new building is arranged in a courtyard form, delivering a flexible central space which binds the elements of the brief into a controlled and tempered space used by the school and nursery for break-out and shared activities. As a passive, sustainable design, the courtyard solution also allowed us to minimise the energy needs of the building and deliver a holistic environmental and education solution for our client.
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UWS EcoCampus Education Hamilton International Technology Park
ARCHITECT MOSAIC ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN I CLIENT UWS & HFD GROUP
The £110 million University of the West of Scotland (UWS) campus, a partnership between UWS and HFD, delivers 235,000 sq.ft. of specialist labs, teaching facilities and social spaces as well as a gym, and student union. The new campus is one of the UK’s ‘greenest’ educational environments, with carbon neutral buildings incorporating sustainability features. The three campus buildings which form the Campus are joined by a ‘Street’ which provides work and social spaces for students, staff and the local community. The buildings have been designed to adapt to modern learning techniques which rely more heavily on smart devices and open plan teaching. The campus also sees the introduction of innovative learning landscapes combining formal learning environments with new interactive and technology-rich learning zones. The campus includes a 236-capacity auditorium and a conference space for up to 128 people. A priority has been placed on sustainability, making UWS Lanarkshire one of the UK’s greenest university campuses, powered by renewable energy from the nearby Blantyre Muir wind farm. Working with the University and Developer we carried out the Cat A Works and in collaboration with haa design the Cat B works.
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Largs Academy Education Largs North Ayrshire Council’s new Largs Campus was delivered via a Design, Build, Finance and Maintain Contract by Morrison Construction for Hub South West and provides a new learning environment for 1200 secondary pupils, 610 non-denominational primary pupils, 210 denominational pupils and 100/100 nursery pupils, as well as community facilities including an 8 court games hall, 2 gymnasiums, a fitness suite and 7-a-side synthetic pitch. The new campus amalgamates the existing St Mary’s Primary, Brisbane Primary, Kelburn Primary and Largs Academy to create a vibrant educational facility centred around a flexible learning resource plaza. Following extensive consultation with the surrounding communities and numerous educational teams from the schools and Local Authority, a new site located on rolling hills on the eastern periphery of Largs was chosen, offering fantastic picturesque views over Cumbrae and Arran. Due to the scale of the campus and school facilities, the building was designed as a homogeneous campus rather than a series of independent buildings with each part of the campus having its own identity within the whole. The building adopts varying scales and forms to elegantly manage the site’s challenging location and topography, creating visual interest and making the most of its unique context. Combining a number of differing school buildings into a unified campus, whilst achieving comprehensive council briefing requirements offered interesting challenges and opportunities. The secondary school and two primary schools are positioned around the central learning resource plaza, reinforcing the idea of a ‘whole campus hub’. This area accommodates shared dining and library facilities providing opportunities for shared access and resources between the individual parts of the campus. Access to various shared sports and multi-purpose spaces are also provided from the central plaza. The primary schools are located adjacent to each other separated by a vertical circulation core which offers flexibility and opportunities for interaction. The classrooms are designed to offer a semi-open-plan teaching environment, allowing teaching spaces to utilise adjacent breakout spaces as a shared extension of the teaching environment. The secondary classrooms also have access to flexible, shared breakout spaces and are organised by department and stacked vertically to exploit the views across the site.
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West Calder High School Education West Lothian All of our buildings are designed from first principles and West Calder is no different. Despite an educational brief which is similar to our new secondary school in Perth, the West Calder design is again a unique response to a unique site. It couldn’t be anywhere else. Its form is inspired by the agricultural and industrial heritage of the area, its roof-scape echoing the angular forms of the nearby 5 Sisters Shale Bings, and containing below it a wide variety of interesting spaces of varying scale and character washed with natural light. The deep plan, split level form of the school is also based on an innovative brief from which its exciting learning spaces are directly derived. Its design was the subject of creative collaboration with the Council’s team, our architectural ambition reflecting the client’s aspirations for a high-quality educational environment that is genuinely stimulating for all those who use it. The school’s excellent internal visual and educational connectivity is the product of an efficient footprint combined with an outstanding external wall to floor area ratio, an approach which is not just intrinsically sustainable, but also allows the project to deliver additional accommodation over and above the brief whilst still remaining well below the relevant SFT area guidance.
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Northumbria University Architecture Building Education Sutherland
ARCHITECT PAGE\PARK I STRUCTURAL ENGINEER WSP PARSONS BRINCKERHOFF I SERVICES ENGINEER DESCO (DESIGN & CONSULTANCY) LTD I QUANTITY SURVEYOR TURNER AND TOWNSEND I LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT COLOUR
Page\Park have just completed a new home for the Architecture and Built Environment Department at Northumbria University. Located within the Grade II listed Sutherland Building, the project provides much needed studio and teaching space over two levels in a courtyard extension. The new addition transforms the former service courtyard to the rear of the building into a new civic space on the campus.
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Lister Learning Centre Education Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh is to be congratulated on this significant and successful regeneration project. An attitude to reuse, reimagine and re-purpose an existing structure, rather than demolish and re-build is the truly responsible approach to sustainability. The design and fit-out of the buildings have been steered by an ethos of interaction, engagement and creativity-to deliver this ambition a community of spaces has been imagined to give researchers, students/ staff choice and control over their research and learning environment. This approach is intended to allow the building’s pattern of occupation to flex through time, in response to the varying needs of different teaching, learning and research themes as they emerge. Our proposals are centred on the idea of a hub –a space where primary horizontal and vertical circulation meets. This creates a social heart to the once disconnected buildings and provides a vibrant and convivial place, designed to encourage serendipity where ad-hoc and planned meetings can take place. This focus on the social spaces and facilities of the buildings will deliver the University with highly social buildings-places where students WANT to spend time because the environment is a pleasure to occupy and the facilities are easy and convenient to use.
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ARCHITECT REIACH & HALL I CLIENT THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
Bertha Park High School Education Perth
ARCHITECT NORR I CLIENT HUB EAST CENTRAL SCOTLAND / PERTH & KINROSS COUNCIL I MAIN CONTRACTOR ROBERTSON CONSTRUCTION
Bertha Park High School was designed by Architects NORR and completed in July 2019. Created for Perth + Kinross Council, the building was delivered through Hub East Central Scotland and built by Robertson Construction and it is the first entirely new school in Scotland for 25 years; it does not replace an existing building, but rather provides an entirely new facility which extends the secondary provision of the city of Perth. Based on a radical brief developed in conjunction with the Council and SPACE Strategies, the building has been designed to give equality of the user and learning experience to all of its occupants in an entirely seam-less way, and in a form which is conducive to a cohesive and collaborative learning experience. Consequently its design delivers a wide variety of spaces of varying scale and character, it erodes the corridor and fully ex-ploits the use of natural light, delivering an accommodation mix that is considerably less than the relevant SFT metrics. In this way the building provides not just enhanced value for its learners, but also demonstrable value for the public purse as well. The school is compact and efficient yet still contains spaces of undeniable grandeur. The project's intrinsically sustainable, thermally efficient form is complemented by a simplicity of construction detailing in such areas as the roof (where there is only one roof plane and 7 water outlets) the repetition of common window components, and the controlled use of a limited palette of materials, creating a simple, ele-gant and highly civic exterior which contains a spatially rich and educationally interesting interior. Arranged on a north-south axis, the school presents a taller, more formal, and highly glazed frontage to the north which attractively puts learning on show to its wider community whilst, in contrast, the lower scaled southern end of the building provides access to the schools’ main social area from its southfacing play-ground which enjoys links to its residential context. This approach has allowed the school to successfully ma-nipulate its scale to sit successfully within a lower scaled emerging townscape. The Headteacher Stuart Clyde has been in the enviable position of being able to recruit every single member of staff to help him deliver a fully digitally enabled curriculum, within this new, highly contemporary and genuinely radical learning environment.
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RECHARGING RETROFIT In May, the Scottish Government made a landmark legal commitment to achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 20451. To make this a reality, we must quickly turn words into actions. Heating currently accounts for around 47% of the country’s carbon footprint2, so the building envelope performance of existing buildings must be addressed as a matter of urgency. When upgrading a building’s energy performance, careful consideration must be given to ensure the solution is appropriate. In cases where the existing cladding is tired, installing a new facade system can be a cost-effective route to a more attractive building as well as a more energy efficient one. Balance The key elements to consider when enhancing the thermal efficiency of a wall are insulation choice, airtightness, detailing and limiting thermal bridging. There are a variety of through-wall facade systems which tick these boxes without compromising on other performance aspects. Built-up systems, in which all components are installed separately, offer excellent design flexibility. When using modern closed-cell insulation within these systems, it is possible to achieve U-values as low as 0.08 W/m2.K with a slim wall build-up. Alternatively, mineral fibre insulation can provide enhanced acoustic benefits but much thicker volumes are needed to achieve the desired U-value. Insulated panel systems offer a more modular approach. They can either be specified as single components — combining cladding, liner and insulation in one — or as a substrate layer with separate external cladding. Their design can facilitate fast-track installations with reduced risk of errors. Whichever system you choose, fire performance must be carefully assessed. Following the recent updates to Technical Handbook 2 (Fire), all elements of cladding systems installed above 11 metres must achieve a European Classification of at least A2-s1, d0 or the precise cladding system used must have been tested to BS 8414 in accordance with BR 1353. A variety of built-up and panelised systems are available which meet these requirements.
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ARCHITECT ALLAN MURRAY I STRUCTURAL ENGINEER IAN BLACK CONSULTING I LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT IRONSIDE FARRAR I PROJECT MANAGER GLEEDS MANAGEMENT SERVICES I MAIN CONTRACTOR MCALEER & RUSHE
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New Waverley Offices Commercial New Street, Edinburgh The New Waverley Office Building was constructed as part of the 2nd phase of projects within the 2006 masterplan for the New Waverley Development. It is situated just North of the Royal Mile, within the Edinburgh Unesco World Heritage site and Old Town Conservation Area, on a site previously occupied by the New Street bus garage. The main entrance to the building is from the new public Plaza created as part of the wider regeneration masterplan, which also includes the creation of new public pedestrian routes such as the adjacent Sibbald Walk. The project provides 190,000 sq ft of net office accommodation over 5 floors, split over 2 inter-linked but distinct sub buildings (North and South), linked via a 3 storey glazed bridge. The massing and roof-scape building is stepped in section to maintain key views across the Waverley Valley towards the sea from the City Centre. Structurally, the office is constructed utilising a reinforced concrete frame on piled foundations. The building is designed with multiple entrance levels and retention structure to accommodate the site topography, which includes a 3 storey drop between the plaza entrance to the South and Calton Road to the North. The building is clad largely in British sourced natural sandstone, with a small section of terracotta cladding to the North-East providing a reference to the red-brick bus station which previously occupied the site. Large areas of floor to ceiling curtain walling maximise the available natural light within the offices and allow for impressive panoramic views across Edinburgh and beyond from the upper floors. The roofs of both the North and South buildings have been designed to provide accessible terraces for the building occupants, whilst recognising the importance of views over the building from Calton Hill and Regents Terrace above.
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Quarry Road Commercial Irvine Quarry Road is the initial phase of a larger regeneration masterplan in the heart of Irvine for North Ayrshire Council, which aims to promote health and wellbeing. The former brownfield site is next to the historic recreation park which was once the home of the Caledonian greyhound race track and will be revitalised with new football pitches and outdoor sports facilities. The building will not only provide high quality office accommodation but is also a landmark - forming a gateway for safe, landscaped routes for pedestrians and cyclists from the town centre to the new leisure development and park. The building houses headquarters for a local leisure company and workspaces for Business Gateway, who aim to support local entrepreneurs and business start-ups. Flexible open-plan office spaces and shared meeting rooms on the ground floor will allow business ventures to grow and expand, promoting and encouraging local employment. The second phase of the building will be an extension from the reception to the south, with multiuse community spaces, as well as indoor and outdoor sports facilities.
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ARCHITECT ANDERSON BELL CHRISTIE I CLIENT NORTH AYRSHIRE COUNCIL I STRUCTURAL ENGINEER GROSSARTS I SERVICES ENGINEER HAWTHORNE AND BOYLE I MAIN CONTRACTOR CLARK CONTRACTS I PHOTOGRAPHER ANDREW LEE
The Mews Commercial Dundee
ARCHITECT ANDREW BLACK DESIGN I CLIENT ANDREW BLACK DESIGN I STRUCTURAL ENGINEER L.N. HENDERSON + ASSOCIATES I MAIN CONTRACTOR WEST END JOINERY LIMITED
Adaptive Re-use of an 1830s Grade C listed former stables to three offices to form a creative hub in the centre of Dundee. The offices provide an affordable, attractive and stimulating environment for three highly creative firms in the heart of Dundee - a firm of architects, a graphic designer and a services design company. The appearance of Commercial Grangemouth the exterior of the building has been retained, with timber stable doors now revealing large Completed in 2016, this newplenty HQ building proglazed openings, providing of daylight vides floorsopen of Grade A office accommoin the four modern, plan office interiors. dation via an impressive fullminimal height The accessed decision was made to make entrance atrium space with interventions to maximise the‘floating’ available helical space staircase. and produce an open plan arrangement which A 3,000sq.ft external utility building supis essential to create a generous stimulating ports office operations includes staff bright and modern officeand environment and showersanand secure cycle storage. create impression of spaciousness in the Therelatively new HQ small building sets Internal an architectural three offices. finishes precedent for the stonework, future growth the plant include exposed oakoffloors and and slatted now houses theand majority of INEOS’s staff oak ceilings painted plasterboard in Grangemouth. walls. Offering 7,156sq/m of gross internal floor A sophisticated internal lighting scheme space the the project went on to win regional enhances spaces created, and ahighlights BCO corporate workplace award. features of the existing building.
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Greenhouse Cafe Commercial Melrose, Scottish Borders The site is located in Buccleuch Street, in the centre of Melrose. The site is bound to the north and the west by private houses, and gardens (Harmony Garden), and to the east by a car park serving Melrose Abbey. This historic building is located a short distance walk from the cafĂŠ, and the site is part of a Scheduled Monument Area. The Greenhouse CafĂŠ was about revitalising and developing a key building within Melrose town centre. The facility was badly in need of refurbishment when the client purchased the building, and together we have brought the building back to life. The two original buildings were completely refurbished and adapted to accommodate the expanded cafe, and then the two pieces connected with a new contemporary glass wall extension. The key aim of the glazed extension was to create a bright new space that connects the building with the beautiful Melrose Abbey: fashioning itself as the green house of the Greenhouse Cafe.
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ARCHITECT CAMERONS I CLIENT GREENHOUSE CAFE I MAIN CONTRACTOR CRUICKSHANKS & CO LTD
Ibis Styles Glasgow Centre West Commercial Glasgow
ARCHITECT ICA I CLIENT CALMONT SUGARHOUSE I STRUCTURAL ENGINEER WOOLGAR HUNTER I SERVICES ENGINEER ATELIER TEN I MAIN CONTRACTOR THOMAS JOHNSTONE
Originally built for use as an office block in the 1960s, Douglas House spent many years unused until its recent transformation. ICA have reimagined the building, creating a hotel that marks its presence in the area. The existing dated and tired glazed façade was removed and replaced with a proportional grid frame; bringing the glass box to life by capturing light and shade. Vertical extrusions are introduced above the existing plinth to draw the eye up the building and accentuate its height. The hotel’s interior design takes inspiration from Scotland’s iconic musical legacy. There are three different colour schemes with a consistent design story throughout; featuring a custom carpet design that depicts worldfamous Glasgow music venues. Each scheme is punctuated with vibrant furniture that adopt the playful Ibis Styles brand ethos. This extends throughout the hotel, particularly in the lobby which is decorated with a customised grand piano reception desk, bespoke pendant lighting, and a retro jukebox. Exposed concrete columns and beams create an atmospheric backdrop to the scheme and are layered with a muted palette of warm timbers, soft greys and tan vinyl. This makes for a casual, comfortable and relaxed feel. The hotel invites people to live/work/ play in the spaces. Fresh shop-front glazing to Waterloo and Douglas street creates a dynamic frontage for the hotel which now invites people to, not only stay in the hotel’s new suites, but to pass time in the ground floor bar and Tinderbox coffee shop. The finished hotel is the fifth Ibis Styles completed by ICA.
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ARCHITECT ELDER & CANNON I CLIENT TOLLCROSS HOUSING ASSOCIATION I STRUCTURAL ENGINEER STRUCTURAL PARTNERSHIP I SERVICES ENGINEER MAX FORDHAM I QUANTITY SURVEYOR REID ASSOCIATES I PHOTOGRAPHER ANDREW LEE
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Tollcross Housing Association Offices Commercial Glasgow The initial competition brief from the client, Tollcross Housing Association, prioritised three fundamental requirements. First, the project would require a particular response to the context of the site on Tollcross Road, terminating the Western gable of a historic tenement overlooking the expansive woodland of Tollcross Park. Second, the building should consolidate the various individual departments of the organisation, interview and committee areas, together into one building as one working community. Importantly each department should interact yet retain a clearly defined domain and identity within an open inclusive workplace. Finally, the design approach should interpret and display the intention that the new building is shared by the Association, the local community and the committee of over 60 residents. Alongside these fundamental requirements, they aspired to have a memorable building that would be identifiable at the heart of the Tollcross community. The Association feel that their completed headquarters fulfils those requirements by responding in a calm, contemplative office space, with expansive views both within and outward over the park to the north and ongoing regeneration to the south.
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Native Glasgow Commercial St. Vincent Place, Glasgow The primary aim of the design was to bring purpose and life back into the Anchor Line Building, a fine Grade A listed building in Glasgow’s Central Conservation Area, which had fallen into a state of disrepair to the extent it has been included in the Buildings At Risk Register for Scotland. The building’s character and location informed the requirement to create a high-quality development, linked to the Client’s existing dining and social accommodation on the ground floor and basement. Repurposed on the upper floors as a 64-bed apart-hotel, each layout respected the original plans, whilst great care was taken to retain and repair original architectural details where possible, or precisely replaced where required. A sensitive 1-storey extension at roof level, set back from all edges, provides additional accommodation while respecting both the classical symmetry and materiality of the building. Opened in September 2018 as Native Glasgow, the development contributes to the vibrant cultural and commercial life of the city, helping to secure the long-term future of the building.
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ARCHITECT ICA I STRUCTURAL ENGINEER WOOLGAR HUNTER I SERVICES ENGINEER ATELIER TEN I QUANTITY SURVEYOR GARDINER & THEOBALD I PROJECT MANAGER PMP I MAIN CONTRACTOR ISG
2-4 Blythswood Square Commercial Glasgow The basis of the project and brief at 2-4 Blythswood Square was to provide 2500sqm of Grade A speculative office space, over five floors within an existing B-listed Georgian terrace overlooking Blythswood Square. The project involved refurbishment and alteration works to the existing floors of cellular offices to form large open plan office suites working within and around the confines of a listed façade and an internal ‘feature’ staircase. The design strategy was to fundamentally improve accessibility, circulation and wayfinding throughout the building, as well as, providing new fit-for-purpose working environments with fully implemented services. A new accessible entrance was formed at lower ground floor accessed from Bath Lane and new accessible WC facilities were incorporated on each floor.
ARCHITECT MCGINLAY BELL I CLIENT CCLA INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT I PHOTOGRAPHER DAPPLE PHOTOGRAPHY
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The Fife Arms Commercial Mar Rd, Braemar The Fife Arms, a landmark building in Braemar, has been restored to its former glory as the centre of the community after an extensive four-year programme of regeneration and restoration. The completed project carefully balances the retention and restoration of key existing spaces and historic features, with an intervention that creates distinctive new spaces interwoven with the old, captures new views of the majestic surrounding landscape, and, crucially, allows the hotel to operate in a modern, highly efficient and effective manner. At the same time, the redesign radically reconfigures the operational plan of the building to comprehensively improve efficiency and ensure that back-of-house functions no longer impinge upon residents or visitors. A major intervention is the removal of infill buildings to create a new courtyard, made possible by the relocation of service zones from prime ground floor areas to a new lower ground floor positioned at the rear. At the centre of the plan, the courtyard allows natural light to enter the heart of the building whilst providing an area of sheltered external space defined by an open colonnade. This peristyle includes ‘stripped bark’ tree trunk columns, a playful and consciously primitivist approach that is strongly associated with Highlands buildings of the Victorian era. These distinctive columns support an intensive roof planted with local varieties of heather.
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Cairngorms National Park Authority HQ Commercial Grantown-on-Spey
ARCHITECT MOXON ARCHITECTS I CLIENT REIDHAVEN ESTATE I STRUCTURAL ENGINEER CAMERON AND ROSS I QUANTITY SURVEYOR MCCUE AND PORTER I MAIN CONTRACTOR AW LAING
Moxon architects has significantly extended and reconfigured the headquarters of the Cairngorms National Park Authority (CNPA) in Grantown-on-Spey on behalf of Reidhaven Estate. Collaborating closely with The Highland Council through an extensive public planning process, Moxon has created a progressive design in a conservation area that ambitiously rethinks how the CNPA operates and interacts with its public. The new building serves to raise the profile of the CNPA while offering an environment designed to promote collaborative working practices and welcome visitors. It responds to its context with a structure of exposed cross laminated timber (CLT) clad in natural European Larch, which will weather over time, alongside pleated zinc and frameless glazing. The design approach brings the new building elements to the fore, creating a highly legible new entrance and new wing for the facility. Collaboration, accessibility and the promotion of modern working practices were paramount to the design of the internal spaces, which now provide formal and informal meeting spaces as well as breakout zones. New building elements in effect extend the street around a corner, extrapolating the town grain and complementing existing massing. Traditional materials are deployed in a contemporary idiom to enhance the innate characteristics of the town. Carefully choreographed shifts between new and historic fabric allow the existing built heritage to remain clearly legible. A sequence of simply articulated volumes and frameless glazing creates open plan spaces designed to allow the CNPA to operate more efficiently. Internal areas can be easily reconfigured with movable timberclad screens that roll out to subdivide the space, offering flexible accommodation for a diverse range of functions including exhibition space and enhanced privacy workstations. Layout and orientation is organised to benefit from solar gain, while high levels of insulation and energy efficient windows minimise energy consumption. A range of sustainably sourced materials, wildlife boxes and an intensively planted roof are incorporated seamlessly into the design.
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Red Tree Magenta Commercial Shawfield, Glasgow Following on from a substantive enabling works programme at Shawfield, Clyde Gateway has now seen the construction of the first commercial development - Red Tree Magenta - on their 11 hectare development site at Glasgow’s East end. The building’s location, being the first to be constructed on the Shawfield site, meant that for a relatively small building it was required in design terms to punch above its weight and make an impact on the wider site. The spatial arrangement is a simple linear rectangular form that has been consciously subverted to provide a dramatic cantilever at the main entrance and primary approach with a deeply modelled south-facing façade including raised garden space. Bronzed metallic aluminium rain screen panels were selected as a nod to the area’s industrial heritage. The rain screen sits on a base of dark grey recycled plastic planks punctuated by strips of glazing. The large area of curtain walling to the South is bounded by a ‘frame’ of metallic bronze and protected from the sun by a series of vertical metal solar shading fins. Red Tree Magenta is evidence of outstanding placemaking architecture establishing Shawfield as a business setting and vibrant workplace location.
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ARCHITECT NORR I CLIENT CLYDE GATEWAY I MAIN CONTRACTOR ROBERTSON CONSTRUCTION
Primark, Birmingham Commercial High Street
ARCHITECT 3DREID I CLIENT PRIMARK I STRUCTURAL ENGINEER WSP I SERVICES ENGINEER HOARE LEA I QUANTITY SURVEYOR LINESIGHT I INTERIOR DESIGNER QUAGGA DESIGN I PROJECT MANAGER KMJM I MAIN CONTRACTOR MACE GROUP I PHOTOGRAPHER DANIEL SHEARING
The opening of Primark’s flagship at 38 High Street in April 2019 provides an enhanced customer experience across 160,000 sqft of retail space. Primark commissioned 3DReid to develop proposals to transform the centre into a retail flagship the retailer’s largest development in the UK to date. A productive dialogue with the planning authority identified the opportunity to re-shape the inward-facing centre to create a landmark development with a stronger relationship to the surrounding streets and deliver a new pedestrian route through the block in the tradition of the many Victorian arcades that criss-cross the city. Considerable structural alterations were required to re-shape the centre to engage with the surrounding streets and equip it with exciting amenities that complement the city’s retail offer and activate the new pedestrian route through the building linking High Street and Moor Street. In addition to the new façade and active frontage facing High Street, Primark agreed to incorporate additional works to transform the appearance of the existing Moor Street facade which is seen as a gateway to the retail core when approaching from Curzon Street and Eastside. Beneath the shared service road, a new store entrance flanked by concessions and display windows activate the frontage and will provide an active edge to a future ‘Station Square’ envisaged as part of the Curzon Street / HS2 Masterplan. The building is over-clad with illuminated mesh facades to promote active frontages to both High Street and Moor Street. The High Street façade forms part of an historic streetscape and along this frontage the elevation is broken down into a sequence of contiguous facets giving oblique views along the street. The geometry of the Moor Street façade seeks to respond to long-range vistas. Illuminated ETFE features mark the route through the development. Internally the route is celebrated with two full-height atria with top-lit LED Barrisol rooflights highlighting the route. Upper-level retail floors are linked by bridges which provide visual and physical connections between the sales areas on either side. Primark’s flagship acts as an anchor to pedestrian movement along New Street to encourage footfall between the Bullring and the surrounding city centre. Re-activating once dead frontages, the development seeks to re-vitalise the High Street.
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Hendricks Gin Palace Commercial Girvan Hendrick’s new Gin Palace for William Grant & Sons, located just a stone’s throw from the original, will double Hendrick’s current capacity and allows for the brand’s future growth. The distillery is formed of four key elements; A Victorian inspired walled garden which encloses three Glasshouses, a central accommodation spine which houses a bar, a lab space and a lecture theatre, three individual still houses and an external service yard with support facilities for the distillation process. The main glasshouse sits centrally within the walled garden and allows Hendrick’s brand team to host a variety of events within a light and airy structure populated with Victorian oddities. It is flanked by two smaller glasshouses on either side which house a variety of exotic botanicals. The original copper stills take centre stage within the new distillery, located within a central stillhouse whose dark colour palette allows the bright copper stills to stand out within their surroundings. This is reinforced by the bespoke, stained-glass oculus that sits directly above the 9m tall Carter head still, bathing it in light.
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ARCHITECT MICHAEL LAIRD ARCHITECTS I CLIENT WILLIAM GRANT & SONS I STRUCTURAL ENGINEER MCLAUGHLIN & HARVEY I INTERIOR DESIGN SCARANISH STUDIO I PHOTOGRAPHY DAVID CADZOW & JOHN PAUL
Cupar Burgh Chambers The Law School Queen’s Cross Church Carnegie Library Mackintosh at the Willow Ashludie House Inverness Creative Academy St John’s Church
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Cupar Burgh Chambers Historic 5 St Catherine's Street, Cupar The restoration of Cupar’s Burgh Chambers reinstated an abandoned and endangered historic gem to its rightful position as the dazzling centrepiece of the town’s Georgian townscape, and a symbol of economic regeneration in a struggling town centre. Neglected for 40 years, this Common Good building was brought back to life in a imaginative and faithful restoration, adapting it for use as a holiday flat, complete with local furniture and paintings from the Georgian era. For decades, the community had lobbied for a future to be found for the neglected common good property. However, the building was severely constrained by the physical arrangements of the rooms, which had very poor accessibility and difficult relationships to neighbouring properties. The 148m2 building is B listed and sits at the key town centre location, with an elegant bow front and clocktower overlooking Cupar’s wide medieval marketplace. Neglected for many years, the building’s condition was poor and it was designated ‘At Risk’. Technical investigations revealed a complex building with layers of construction phases presenting challenges to its structural and fire safety integrity and complex relationships to neighbouring buildings. This made it impossible to install a lift, constraining potential uses. The philosophical approach was to retain as much original fabric as possible and enhance authenticity with the reinstatement of historic finishes and removal of modern interventions. Contemporary improvements were either hidden or simply presented in an understated manner, deferring to the historic fabric. A detailed process of designing conservation repairs included lime plastering and elaborate cornices, a lead dome, burgh streetlamp, clock and weathervane restoration, extensive joinery repairs and window restoration. An especially complex process of removing cement and synthetic paint from the existing sandstone facades was completed through painstaking steam processes, followed by hand tool stone repairs and repointing. This allowed the existing distorted masonry window openings to be retained, with the original sash and case windows brought back to working order. Energy efficiency was dramatically improved with the introduction of up to 300mm of sheep’s wool, a natural renewable form of insulation that mitigated the risk of interstitial condensation.
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ARCHITECT ARC ARCHITECTS I CLIENT FIFE COUNCIL C/O FIFE HISTORIC BUILDINGS TRUST I STRUCTURAL ENGINEER DAVID NARRO ASSOCIATES I SERVICES ENGINEER HARLEY HADDOW I QUANTITY SURVEYOR HARDIES PROPERTY & CONSTRUCTION CONSULTANTS I INTERIOR DESIGNER AMBIENT INTERIORS I MAIN CONTRACTOR JOHN SMART & SON (KIRKCALDY) LTD I PHOTOGRAPHER TOM MORTON
The Law School Historic Old College, Edinburgh
ARCHITECT LDN ARCHITECTS I CLIENT THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH I PHOTOGRAPHER PAUL ZANRE
The Law School occupies the entire northern half of Old College, Robert Adam’s masterwork in Edinburgh. This quadrangle building, completed by William Playfair, provided all the University’s accommodation until it expanded into larger and more specialised buildings in the late 19th century. The northern part of the building had become confusing to navigate and was in poor condition. LDN Architects has recently completed a major refurbishment of this Category A Listed building to provide contemporary teaching spaces, offices and support services accommodation. The building has been altered to provide level access across all floors from a new circulation core. A new café and social space have also been provided. A new Law Library was designed on three levels with the introduction of a mezzanine level. Historic plan forms were restored and interior details revealed. A new octagonal book stack has been derived from the geometry of the octagonal lecture theatre above. The external fabric works include the upgrading of existing roofs with modifications to existing dormers and a new dormer to Chambers Street. Existing roof lights were upgraded and roofs finished with new leadwork and reinstated slates. Mechanical and electrical installations have been renewed integrated with the historic building fabric.
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Queen's Cross Church Historic Aberdeen Queen’s Cross Church near the centre of Aberdeen is an impressive A listed Victorian building with a range of different facilities for church and community use. The church members are keen to make better use of these facilities and to increase their community presence in the locale. At the core of this idea is the need to make the building more accessible, more inviting and more user-friendly. The current proposals reorganise and modernise the church accommodation around a new transverse circulation route joining new entrances on both Albyn Place and Carden Place. These new thresholds provide a distinct change to the exterior of the building and allow views into the building from the street. Making the building complex fit for purpose is the driving idea for the project but as a consequence, a further set of priorities follow on, including the relocation of the nursery, the creation of a coffee house, reorganisation of the main hall and improved landscaping.
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ARCHITECT LEE BOYD I CLIENT QUEEN'S CROSS PARISH CHURCH I PHOTOGRAPHER KEITH HUNTER
Carnegie Library Historic Academy Street, Coatbridge
ARCHITECT MAST ARCHITECTS I CLIENT CLYDE VALLEY HOUSING ASSOCIATION I MAIN CONTRACTOR PROJECT MANAGEMENT & CONSTRUCTION
MAST Architects delivered their latest conservation project recently as the transformation of the Category B Listed former Carnegie Library in Coatbridge into affordable housing was completed for Clyde Valley Housing Association. Located within a Conservation Area, the prominent red sandstone ‘Beaux Arts’ style building makes an important contribution to the townscape and unique character of the area. However, despite efforts to identify a suitable end use, it had been vacant since 2010 and the condition of the building had deteriorated due to lack of maintenance and criminal activity leading to it being designated a ‘Building at Risk’. The client and design team engaged with the local planning authority and Historic Environment Scotland at an early stage to discuss the restrictions of the original building’s design, and the extent of changes that would be needed to successfully allow its conversion to flats. These changes included the insertion of new floor levels into the original structure, and the removal of the rear book stacks to create a robust and secure external area for residents, whilst the north gables of the book stacks have been retained to create a sense of security and enclosure to the garden space and to maintain the building’s characteristic silhouette. A new access stair and external deck gives access to the upper levels, and areas of newly-exposed wall have been over-clad in an insulated timber rainscreen. These works are clearly contemporary in design, in order that the history of the building and its conversion can be seen and understood.
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Mackintosh at the Willow Historic Glasgow Simpson & Brown worked with the Willow Tea Rooms Trust to help restore the 1903 Charles Rennie Mackintosh designed Willow Tea Rooms and create a world-class exhibition and education centre in the adjacent building. Appointed as project architect following an international competition and competitive interview in September 2015, S&B initially produced a comprehensive Conservation Plan & Condition Survey of both buildings in 2014. The project combines old with the new, contrasting the original splendour of the only Mackintosh designed tea room with the modern interior of the new exhibition space. Located on Sauchiehall Street in the centre of Glasgow, the new centre will provide a shop, exhibition, conference facilities, education room and offices as well as providing amenities such as lifts which make both buildings accessible without impacting on the Tea Rooms. The Tea Rooms will be restored to how Mackintosh intended when they were opened in 1903, including over 400 pieces of furniture.
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ARCHITECT SIMPSON & BROWN I CLIENT WILLOW TEA ROOMS I STRUCTURAL ENGINEER DAVID NARRO ASSOCIATES I SERVICES ENGINEER RYBKA I INTERIOR DESIGNER STUDIOARC I PROJECT MANAGER DOIG & SMITH I MAIN CONTRACTOR CLARK CONTRACTS I PHOTOGRAPHER ALEXANDER FRASER PHOTOGRAPHY, COURTESY OF CLARK CONTRACTS
Ashludie House Historic Monifieth
ARCHITECT VOIGT ARCHITECTS I CLIENT WHITEBURN I STRUCTURAL ENGINEER SCOTT BENNETT ASSOCIATES I MAIN CONTRACTOR PERT BRUCE CONSTRUCTION
Ashludie House sits within the Ashludie Grange development and forms part of the regeneration of this historic part of Monifieth. The Jacobean style mansion was built in 1866 and designed by the prolific Dundee architect James MacLaren. The development consists of the restoration and conversion of the B Listed Ashludie House into a mix of 10 apartments and 3 houses. The ground floor apartments will retain the splendour of the highly decorative Victorian ceilings in the principal rooms, with all the apartments sharing the common entrance hall, which has a finely carved existing staircase and stained glass windows which will be retained and restored. Ashludie House sits within grounds of mature trees and will retain its setting within the overall development, with the building being returned to its former glory to create modern apartments.
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ARCHITECT LDN I CLIENT WASPS/HIGHLAND COUNCIL I MAIN CONTRACTOR ROBERTSON NORTHERN
Inverness Creative Academy Historic Midmills Building, Stephen's Street The first major arts hub in the Highlands provides urgently needed studios for everyone from photographers and textile designers to an artist who knits glass. LDN Architects are at the heart of the two-phase Inverness Creative Academy project which aims to boost the economy by bringing together artists, makers and creative companies in a high-profile centre with the facilities they need to flourish. Creative hubs are popular across Europe. They have been successfully pioneered in Scotland by Wasps Artists’ Studios – which is behind the Inverness development – whose centres include South Block in Glasgow. There is an acute shortage of studio space in the Highlands, which hampers the prospects of locally based artists and makers and means some have to leave the area. The £2.2 million Phase 1 has seen the restoration and transformation of one of the empty B Listed Midmills buildings, near the centre of Inverness, to create 39 high quality, affordable studio spaces and an exhibition area. Phase 2 will give a new future to the second building. Many people have fond memories of the Midmills buildings, which were part of the Inverness Royal Academy and later Inverness College.
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St John's Church Historic Edinburgh
ARCHITECT LDN ARCHITECTS I CLIENT CORNERSTONE DEVELOPMENTS (EDINBURGH) LTD
St John’s Church is an A listed building in the centre of Edinburgh. Since opening in 1818 it has been modified several times, the church hall is the most significant addition and was completed in 1916. LDN Architects proposals required to address the needs of the congregation, various user groups and the public. A new entrance was created to the west side of the church hall by relocating the arched opening from the east gable. A new, larger arched opening was formed in the east gable, providing a link to the new extension and access from Princes Street. Internally the church hall and basement were reorganised and extended to create a flexible hall and meeting rooms which can be combined. The hall has its own servery with service lift connection to the café kitchen below. The basement café and retail units were reorganised to create the link between the kitchen and the hall above and to locate the retail units closer to Lothian Road. Offices were relocated from the basement to a new mezzanine floor in the church hall and a reception was positioned beside the new entrance where a feature stair and lift provide an accessible link between all levels.
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Avonbridge United Reformed Church Interiors Falkirk The remodelling of Avonbridge United Reformed Church involved crafting a flexible interior capable of accommodating both worship and a programme of community outreach. The solution was to vacate a dilapidated later addition hall and consolidate all activities within the original church building itself, which had been left vacant in recent years due to being considered no longer fit for purpose by the congregation. The levelling of the previously raked floor has facilitated a more flexible space, into which a birch plywood-lined volume has been inserted, containing key ancillary accommodation in the form of a kitchen and toilets. The creation of a new light well, formed in tandem with this, opens up a portion of the roof space, providing a brighter, more voluminous feel. Designed to support established initiatives, such as a lunch club, a credit union, and the daily activities of the Church, planned uses of the newly reopened building also include IT provision to assist those who are unemployed in their search for work and a community cafĂŠ.
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ARCHITECT 3DREID I CLIENT UNITED REFORMED CHURCH SYNOD OF SCOTLAND I STRUCTURAL ENGINEER DAVID NARRO ASSOCIATES I INTERIOR DESIGNER 3DREID I MAIN CONTRACTOR STAG DEVELOPMENTS I PHOTOGRAPHER DAVID CADZOW
Hotel Indigo Manchester Interiors Todd Street, Manchester
ARCHITECT 3DREID I CLIENT IHG I STRUCTURAL ENGINEER MUIR ASSOCIATES I SERVICES ENGINEER BEECHFIELD CONSULTING ENGINEERS I QUANTITY SURVEYOR GLEEDS MANAGEMENT SERVICES I INTERIOR DESIGNER 3DREID I PROJECT MANAGER GLEEDS MANAGEMENT SERVICES I MAIN CONTRACTOR BOWMER + KIRKLAND I PHOTOGRAPHER FRANKLIN & FRANKLIN / FURNITURE FUSION
Hotel Indigo Manchester embraces a fusion of two very different types of building – the historic existing Grade II listed building connected at each level to the new build 14 storey extension. The interior design sought to connect these two buildings by neither being traditional nor contemporary and there is a seamless flow between them. Creating a building that perfectly balances modern architecture with old is always challenging and the plans designed for Hotel Indigo Manchester were especially ambitious. Positioned at the gateway to the NOMA development the building aligns and links this area seamlessly with Manchester’s city centre. The refurbishment and extension has seen the launch of multiple new public spaces – lobby, reception, flexible lounge spaces, 187 guestrooms and Mamucium cafe, restaurant and bar. Drawing inspiration from Manchester’s Victorian and Industrial past the Hotel is indigenous to the local area so guests are well aware that they are staying at the gateway to the Northern Quarter. The standout feature internally is the entrance reception with a stunning open atrium space which is filled with natural light and highlights the restored Victorian brickwork and architectural details. Existing elements of timber structure have been enhanced with feature lighting and bespoke fixtures to create an impact for guests and has proved to be a talking point as guests enter the hotel. The reception lobby features a flexible lounge space which can be used by guests for relaxing or by business users for meetings. The materials used throughout the public areas run throughout the hotel such as timber floors, aged leathers, and industrial style feature lighting and tiled finishes. Mamucium Restaurant and bar, operated by award winning Chef Andrew Green, sits within the new tower section of the building and seeks to combine the traditional materials of the old building and fusing it with the modern architecture of the interior. The restaurant’s centrepiece is a feature curved bar with fluted leather and brass concave uprights to its frontage, a solid stone top bar and an open theatre kitchen in the heart of the space. The themes to each guestroom type reference elements of Manchester’s Victorian and Industrial past.
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Glencairn Interiors Gattonside Proudly contemporary in style, the proposed work aims to present itself as an evolved form of the site’s existing frontage while integrating sympathetically into the immediate Conservation Area context through the use of appropriate materials, and a respect for the local vernacular. The project stemmed from creating the clients’ dream kitchen - a flexible living environment that can host all the family when they visit. The original dwelling flows seamlessly into the new extension as you are drawn through the property’s existing hallway towards a flood of light let in by the large rooflight and north facing wall of glazing. For a relatively small extension space is carefully crafted to feel remarkably light and airy. Within the kitchen, a deep worktop comfortably sets itself back within a recess, allowing more space to socialise at the dining table. A large rooflight captures the south sunlight, pouring it across the dining table, while the window seat serves as a continuation of the exterior courtyard’s ground level, connecting the two spaces and blurring the line between inside and outside.
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ARCHITECT CAMERONS I CLIENT MR AND MRS CAMERON I MAIN CONTRACTOR CRUICKSHANKS & CO LTD
40-50 Fleet Street Interiors London Conversion of Grade II-listed barristers' chambers into extension to neighbouring Apex Temple Court hotel, resulting in the creation of 20 bedrooms, bar, and restaurant.
ARCHITECT ISA I CLIENT APEX HOTELS I STRUCTURAL ENGINEER ALAN BAXTER I SERVICES ENGINEER RSP CONSULTING ENGINEERS I MAIN CONTRACTOR PHELAN CONSTRUCTION I PHOTOGRAPHER PAUL RIDDLE
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Mode Aparthotel Interiors 74 - 77 Queen Street Edinburgh Conversion of an existing office building to form a new 82 bedroom hotel. The first Mode Aparthotel in the UK.
ARCHITECT ISA I CLIENT VALAD EUROPE I STRUCTURAL ENGINEER GOODSON ASSOCIATES I SERVICES ENGINEER BUTLER CONSULTING ENGINEERS I QUANTITY SURVEYOR FAITHFUL +GOULD I PROJECT MANAGER CROMWELL PROPERTY GROUP LTD I MAIN CONTRACTOR GHI CONTRACTS
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Lower Dens Interiors Dundee The conversion of the disused old Mill building provided many challenges., predominantly those relating to the constraints provided by the existing structural layout. The introduction of three new stair cores and two new lift shafts were necessary to meet current building standards and hotel brand standard compliance. The retained castiron columns, whilst providing a unique feature, also provided a challenge when planning guestroom layouts. The circulation routes were carefully designed and planned in order that they could be incorporated within the existing cast iron beam and column arrangements. The existing columns and features were exposed and incorporated within the guestrooms where possible. Most columns were exposed within the ensuite’s, providing a unique feature. The pragmatic and sympathetic approach to the conversion elevates the grade-A listed buildings to their former glory and matches the historic design aesthetic, whilst adopting many of the mandatory requirements imposed by the hotel brand standards and statutory authorities. The converted buildings now offer a facility that meets the requirements of the modern consumer.
ARCHITECT JM ARCHITECTS I CLIENT CSAM LTD I STRUCTURAL ENGINEER WILL RUDD DAVIDSON I SERVICES ENGINEER BUTLER CONSULTING I INTERIOR DESIGNER GRAVEN IMAGES I PROJECT MANAGER THOMAS & ADAMSON
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ARCHITECT THREESIXTY ARCHITECTURE I STRUCTURAL ENGINEER CURTINS I SERVICES ENGINEER ATELIER TEN I QUANTITY SURVEYOR GARDINER & THEOBALD I PROJECT MANAGER CUSHMAN & WAKEFIELD I MAIN CONTRACTOR CLARK CONTRACTS
Gyle Shopping Centre - Mall Refresh Interiors Edinburgh We were appointed to refurbish the mall of the Gyle Shopping Centre, which sits within west Edinburgh and attracts high footfall from a mix of local residents, neighbouring office workers, and shoppers from further afield. The original centre, constructed in 1993, was finished with a palette of high quality materials, and our concept built on this opulence to enrich the interior with contemporary finishes that enhance the enduring character and reinforce the Gyle Centre as a premium shopping destination. Our scope included the refresh of existing wall, ceiling and floor finish with a particular focus on upper storey bulkheads. In addition, we’ve proposed designs for new mall furniture, lighting and tenant branding. The selected palette of materials draws inspiration from nature to create a warmer and richer feel throughout.
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P&J Live (AECC) Leisure Stoneywood, Aberdeen Keppie Design was appointed in September 2014 to progress the concept design for the masterplan, the new AECC and a 200 bed hotel. The new exhibition and conference facilities consist of a 9000sqm arena to accommodate a maximum of 12,500 people, 6000sqm of flexible exhibition space and a further 31,000sqm of multi-purpose subterranean space. A further 10,000sqm of external exhibition space can also be utilised. The proposals have been developed following detailed discussions with the AECC and incorporate expert external advice. The plans have evolved to provide ACC and the AECC with a building that maximises operational benefits and flexibility whilst enhancing the user experience. The key changes to the original concept design have been the separation of the AECC and subterranean car park, improved circulation and viewing experience to the Arena, the relocation of the conference halls to the first floor to allow simultaneous operation with the exhibition halls and the relocation of the restaurant. All of these elements have assisted in creating an improved stimulating and animated frontage.
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ARCHITECT KEPPIE DESIGN I CONCEPT ARCHITECT SASSAN BELL I CLIENT HENRY BOOT DEVELOPMENTS I STRUCTURAL ENGINEER BLYTH & BLYTH I SERVICES ENGINEER HULLEY & KIRKWOOD I PROJECT MANAGER TURNER & TOWNSEND I MAIN CONTRACTOR ROBERTSON
Clydebank Community Sports Hub Leisure Dean Street, Whitecrook
ARCHITECT MARC KILKENNY-ARCHITECTS I CLIENT WEST DUNBARTONSHIRE COUNCIL I DESIGN CRAFT FREYTAG ANDERSON I PHOTOGRAPHY DAPPLE PHOTOGRAPHY
Redevelopment of a near derelict sports centre in Whitecrook, Clydebank for Clydebank Community Sports Hub and West Dunbartonshire Council. The project involved the partial demolition and extension of an existing gym hall to create a new Community Sports Hub facility. Externally there are redeveloped pitches, allotments, community garden, new landscaping and a new public entrance from the street. The improved public realm along with increased employment is intended to help regenerate the local area. The building form is simple using a restrained palette of durable materials with a new single-storey skin of brick wrapped around the existing hall and extension to create a new whole. The new metal cladding was fitted to the upper part of the gym hall with new double skinned glass clerestory for acoustic separation. The 75m long brick street elevation is animated by a large glazed opening, textured brickwork and precast concrete panel artwork designed in part by local school children.
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Blackhouse Leisure Lochnagar A room for cooking in a wood fired oven, eating and drinking with friends; thinking, reading and drawing. Planned and intuitive in equal measure this small building was made by its architect in the ruins of an abandoned highland blackhouse. Drawing on modern and premodern influences it was an opportunity for learning by making and an experiment in the use of large section, locally sourced timber. A Douglas Fir structural frame that was selected, felled, milled and jointed by hand before being erected while still ‘green’ supports a gently curved planted roof that oversails the partially reconstructed drystone walls of the old croft. Embedded in the steep sloping hillside, shutters open up along the entire south elevation to afford a panoramic view of Lochnagar and Upper Dee valley. Designed to emulate the slope of the hillside, the monocoque structure of the roof provides bracing to the trabeated structural frame. A ‘notch’ in the leading edge of the roof allows space for the doorway, while projecting eaves on three sides provide dry seasoning space for the hardwood logs used to fire the oven. The top surface of the roof is extensively planted with native wildflowers to match the surrounding forest floor.
ARCHITECT MOXON ARCHITECTS I CLIENT BEN ADDY
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Advocate’s Close, Edinburgh Winner of RICS 2015 award for “Best Building” Winner of RICS Award 2015 for “Britain’s Best Development” Winner of RICS 2015 award for “Best Regeneration” Winner of RIAS Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland Award 2014 Winner of RIAS Award 2014 Winner – Scottish Design Award 2014 – Regeneration Category Winner of Development of the Year (Commercial Buildings) at the Scottish Property Awards 2014 Highly Commended in City Regeneration Project of the Year Category at the Scottish Property Awards 2014 Commendation at the Saltire Society’s Awards for Civil Engineering 2013 for Structural Design & Conservation
Structural Engineering with care Realise what’s possible with our City Regeneration and CARE registered conservation service Will Rudd Davidson Consulting Civil & Structural Engineers www.ruddconsult.com
3DReid Atkins erz George Buchanan Architects Graven Hypostyle Architects Ingram Architecture & Design jmarchitects Keppie LBA LDN Architects rankin fraser landscape architecure Stallan-Brand anderson bell + christie architects arpl architects HLM Architects ZM Architecture
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45 West Nile Street, Glasgow G1 2PT Tel: 0345 271 6350 Email: glasgow@3DReid.com Web: www.3DReid.com Twitter: @3_D_Reid PRINCIPAL CONTACTS Mark Bedey, Neil de Prez, Gordon Ferrier, Charles Graham-Marr, David Llewellyn, Calum MacDonald, Gordon McGhie, Barry Paton.
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MALMAISON | EDINBURGH
GLENEAGLES CLUB | EDINBURGH
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NO. OF ARCHITECTS (in Scotland) 28 NO. OF STAFF (in Scotland) 62 CURRENT AND RECENT PROJECTS • Cameron House, Loch Lomond • Clyde Gateway East, Glasgow • Collegelands Residential, Glasgow • Curran Embankment Masterplan, Cardiff • New Fountainbridge, Edinburgh • Goodwood Hotel, Chichester, West Sussex • Gleneagles, Auchterarder, Perthshire • Gleneagles Club, St Andrew Square, Edinburgh • Hotel Indigo Manchester • Malmaison, St Andrew Square, Edinburgh • Primark, Birmingham • Queenslie Park Industrial Park, Glasgow • The Wellington Hotel, Glasgow • Thistle Garden Rooms, Edinburgh • Village Hotel Clubs, various sites across the UK • West Nile Street, Glasgow AWARDS Scottish Design Awards 2019 • Avonbridge URC, Chairmans Award for Architecture • Avonbridge URC, Low Cost Project Winner • Thistle Garden Rooms, Future Project Winner • Hotel Indigo Manchester, Interiors Commendation Scottish Property Awards 2019 • The Combworks Aberdeen, Student Accommodation Development of the Year Finalist AHEAD Global Awards 2019 • Ochil House at Gleneagles, Event Space Winner AHEAD Europe Awards 2018 • Ochil House at Gleneagles, Event Space Winner • Birnam at Gleneagles, Best Restaurant Finalist Hospitality Design Awards 2018 • Gleneagles, Luxury Hotel, Winner • Gleneagles, Luxury Guestroom or Suite, Finalist • Gleneagles, Luxury Public Spaces, Finalist PRACTICE STATEMENT 3DReid is a creative architecture and design studio specialising in the design and delivery of complex new build and refurbishment projects throughout the UK and internationally. We provide full architectural design services, interior design and masterplanning.
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HOTEL INDIGO | MANCHESTER
Our cross sector experience includes Airports, Culture and Community, Education, Health, Hotels, Industrial, Leisure, Offices, Residential, Retail and Urban Regeneration. By sharing our knowledge across disciplines we provide a robust and versatile service bringing national and international expertise.
200 Broomielaw, Glasgow G1 4RU Tel: 0141 220 2000 Email: neil.mclean@atkinsglobal.com Web: www.atkinsglobal.com NO. OF ARCHITECTS 137 NO. OF STAFF 8500 in 56 UK offices RECENT PROJECTS • Aberdeen city council housing programme • Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow • Lab refurbishments and External Fabric Repairs, Joseph Black Building, University of Glasgow • Arcadia Nursery, University of Edinburgh • Centre Building, University of Edinburgh • North Cambridge Interchange, Network Rail • Affordable Housing, Queens Quay • PSR Project, University of St Andrews • Labs at University of West of Scotland • Huntershill Sports Hub, Glasgow • Stirling Early Years, Stirling Council • Office Fitouts, GPA/ HMRC • Farringdon CrossRail Station, London • Masterplanning Peel Ports, Glasgow • Affordable Housing, Fife Council AWARDS • Scottish Design Awards 2016 (Education project: Commendation) • GIA Awards 2016 (Education Building) • Education Estates Awards 2016 (School of the Year) • Civic Trust Awards 2016 (Special Award for Community Impact and Engagement: shortlisted) • Civic Trust Awards 2016 (Selwyn Goldsmith Award for Universal Design: shortlisted) • AJ Architecture Awards 2017 (School of the Year: Highly Commended) PRACTICE STATEMENT Atkins architects are driven by the opportunity to achieve lasting social value for our clients, and the communities they serve. We invest in sector leading research, developing innovative tools to improve Well being in our buildings and Virtual Reality as day to day design tools, driving pioneering ways to deliver client focussed solutions to their problems. Atkins in Scotland offer the dual benefits of a local client focussed agile service from our home in Glasgow, with the benefit of a UK and international team of expertise from our wider membership of the SNC-Lavalin Groups multi discipline Design and Engineering Practice. As such we have national and global coverage and are currently listed 9th in the AJ100. We have developed a consistently strong reputation for high quality and well considered designs across a range of sectors and regions including Higher Education, Schools, Early Years, Interior Design, Transportation, Residential, Commercial, Leisure and Masterplanning. In particular we have a recognised national expertise in Higher Education design and the leadership team have excellent, proven experience in this field, being founding members of HEDQF and thought leadership contributors to AUDE.
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21 James Morrison Street, Glasgow, G1 5PE Tel/Fax: 0141 552 0888 Email: info@erzstudio.co.uk Web: www.erzstudio.co.uk Twitter: www.twitter.com/erzstudio PRINCIPAL CONTACTS Rolf Roscher, Director Felicity Steers, Director NO. OF STAFF: 10 SELECTED AWARDS • Shortlisted, Scottish Design Awards 2019 for the Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice landscape • Highly Commended, Landscape Institute Awards 2018 for Royal Edinburgh Hospital (phase 1) landscape • Winner, Communications & Presentation Award, Landscape Institute Awards 2017 • Winner, Best Educational Building, Scottish Design Awards 2015 for Arcadia Nursery, Edinburgh University (with MFA) • Winner, Neighbourhood Planning Award, Landscape Institute Awards 2013 for the David Livingstone Centre Masterplan • Winner, Neighbourhood Planning Award, Landscape Institute Awards 2012 for St. Peter’s / Kilmahew Masterplan • Winner Integrated Habitat Design Competition 2012 for Nitshill Integrated Green Infra-structure Design Study • Chairman’s Award for Architecture, Scottish Design Awards 2011 for Possil Concrete Garden PRACTICE STATEMENT erz limited is a dynamic design practice based in Glasgow’s Merchant City that specialises in landscape design, urbanism, masterplanning and strategy. erz was established in 2007 and has an exciting and growing portfolio of innovative projects (www.erzstudio. co.uk). Recently completed projects include: Dunoon waterfront public realm works and the new Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice landscape, Glasgow (pictured); Broomhill Gardens (IAMH) Greenock; the Playful Garden at Brodie Castle; Dalmuir Square Glasgow; Cupar Wynds public realm Fife; Newcraigs Hospital Inverness phase 1 works & Royal Edinburgh Hospital phase 1.
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Maryhill Burgh Halls 10-24 Gairbraid Avenue Glasgow G20 8YE Tel: 0141 946 2433 Email: studio@georgebuchananarchitects.com Web: www.georgebuchananarchitects.com Twitter username: @GBArchitectsLtd Instagram: @gbarchitectsltd PRINCIPAL CONTACT George Buchanan, Director NO. OF ARCHITECTS 4 NO. TOTAL STAFF 5 RECENT PROJECTS • Westbourne Gardens – Extension and redevelopment of Grade B Listed Townhouse • Kelvindale – Extension and Refurbishment of Private Residence • Orr Street – Residential Development • Phoenix Centre – Community and Sports Facility • Allison Street - Residential Development • Maxwell Road – Residential Development • Busby – Private Residence • Bonhill – Residential Development PRACTICE STATEMENT George Buchanan Architects is an innovative, design driven practice based in Glasgow. We have extensive experience across a number of sectors including Residential, Affordable Housing, Education, Community & Cultural, Regeneration and Leisure. Passionate about design, we aim to produce practical built solutions that exceed expectations and maximise value. A thorough and professional service, delivered by a creative, friendly team.
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Intelligent, beautiful, effective design. We are an independent design studio owned and run by designers. Founded in 1986 our studio works in over thirty countries with global brands and ambitious start-ups. We understand how businesses operate and how brands strategically help them grow. We use the best skills and software for each project to engage effectively with stakeholders – from traditional drawing and making to state-of-the-art immersive 3D visualisation allowing us to inhabit, test and fine-tune projects before they are built.
Graven Images Ltd 175 Albion Street, Glasgow G1 1RU +44 (0)141 552 6626 info@graven.co.uk www.graven.co.uk @graven_hq @GravenHQ
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We have the in-house skills, knowledge and talent to ensure good projects become great, including designing bespoke furnishings, textiles, and floor and wall coverings. We’re good people to work with and we can support your team wherever you are.
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49 St Vincent Crescent, Glasgow G3 8NG Tel: 0141 204 4441 Fax: 0141 204 4897 Email: glasgow@hypostyle.co.uk Web: www.hypostyle.co.uk PRINCIPAL CONTACTS Gerry Henaughen NO. OF ARCHITECTS 20 NO. OF STAFF 37 RECENT PROJECTS • Dalmarnock Riverside Residential Development • Tarfside Oval, Cardonald • Redevelopment of Greenview School, Parkhouse, Glasgow • Sommar Place, Milton Keynes. AWARDS • RIAS Awards - Residential Development various categories • Scottish Design Awards ‘Affordable Housing’ category, commendations in ‘Regeneration’ category • Saltire Society Award • Aberdeen Society of Architects Design Awards 2018, Commendation in Public Realm • GIA Design Commendation for Sustainability at Miller Street, Hamilton • GIA Commendation for Phase 2B, Gorbals • RTPI Award for Crown Street and Queen Elizabeth Square, Gorbals • Scottish Home Awards - Fore Street • Affordable Housing Development of the Year, Herald Property Awards • Art in Architecture Award • Gillies Award • Royal Scottish Academy Gold Medal • RIBA/Sunday Times Community Architecture Award PRACTICE STATEMENT Hypostyle Architects is a UK practice that works in all fields of Architectural Design. Specialising in Residential, Health, Education, Commercial, Masterplanning, Industrial and Urban Designs, the practice understands the boundaries and process of creating visually dynamic and functional buildings. During over 30 years in practice, Hypostyle have established a broad and expanding client base throughout the UK. We believe in design excellence and innovation in architecture and deliver functional, creative, sustainable, energy efficient and economic design solutions to our clients. To achieve this we use up to date technology, project evaluation and option analysis combined with 3D visualisation to enable high quality and creative delivery of the client’s aspirations.
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227 Ingram Street, Glasgow G1 1DA Tel: 0141 221 5191 Email: getus@ingramarchitecture.co.uk Web: www.ingramarchitecture.co.uk Twitter username: IngramArch PRINCIPAL CONTACTS Stephen Govan (Director) Avril Cranston (Director) RECENT PROJECTS • Office Refurbishment and Fit Out, Skypark Glasgow • Retail Development, Finnieston, Glasgow • Retail Fit Out, Silverburn, Glasgow • New Build House, Kilmacolm • Industrial Units, Motherwell • Local Hub and Retail Development, Glasgow • Residential Development, Glasgow West End • Nursery Building, Carluke • Arts Centre, Paisley • Office Redevelopment, Edinburgh • Community Centre, Glasgow PRACTICE STATEMENT Ingram Architecture & Design is a commercial architectural practice based in Glasgow, operating throughout the UK. We work on a diverse range of interesting projects and have a wealth of experience across a variety of sectors including Office, Retail, Leisure, Residential, Hotel, Industrial and Mixed Use. We work with a wide variety of clients and provide a range of services from architectural to interior design, concept design, feasibility studies, construction project management, design architect and conservation consultancy. Design and Delivery are core to our beliefs. We are committed to creating the highest standard of design whilst ensuring projects achieve the very best possible commercial solution. We are passionate about what we do and provide a service that is efficient and creative within an atmosphere of honesty, integrity, knowledge and professionalism.
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64 Queen Street Edinburgh EH2 4NA Tel: 0131 464 6100 edinburgh@jmarchitects.net
50 Bell Street Glasgow G1 1LQ Tel: 0141 333 3920 glasgow@jmarchitects.net
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PRINCIPAL CONTACTS Edinburgh: Brian Thomson, Ryan Fletcher, Stewart Davie, Rod Duncan Glasgow: Henry McKeown, Ian Alexander NO. OF ARCHITECTS: 71 (all UK studios) NO. OF STAFF: 113 (all UK studios)
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RECENT & CURRENT PROJECTS • Lossiemouth Learning Centre • Ten Hill Place Hotel • Alyth Primary School (1) • Peffermill Sports Village • The Linen Quarter, residential • Wallyford Primary School • Stirling Care Village • Calton Road Student Accommodation • Orchard Brae Complex Needs School (8) • Market Street Hotel (5) • Castlebrae Community Campus • Maggie’s Centre London (with Steven Holl Architects) • Buccleuch/ Meadow Lane Student Accommodation (6) • Largs Campus (7) • Kilpatrick ASN • St Andrews Drive Social Housing (4) • Hotel Indigo • Staybridge Apartments • Alness Community College • The New Gorbals Health & Care Centre (2) + (3) • Exchange 2 - Mixed Use Development • Invergarven ASN • Garnock Community Campus • Lochside Academy RECENT AWARDS 2019 BD Education Architect of the Year (Nursery - 6th Form) 2019 EAA Ambassador Award, Alyth Primary School 2019 Civic Trust Awards, Commendation, Maggie’s St. Barts 2019 Specifi Awards, Commendation, The New Gorbals HCC 2019 RIAS Awards, Orchard Brae ASN - Shortlisted 2018 Dezeen Awards Maggie’s St. Bart’s (Winner), Hospitality 2018 AJ 100 Exec Architect of the Year, Maggie’s, London 2018 Architzer A+ Jury Winner, Maggie’s, London 2018 AIA Healthcare Design Awards Maggie’s– Cat A Winner 2017 RIAS Award, James Gillespie’s High School 2017 RIAS President’s Award, Holyrood Postgraduate Village 2017 Scottish Design Awards, Holyrood Postgraduate Village 2017 Education Building Scotland Best Architectural Practice 2017 Living Heritage Award, Albert Halls, Bolton 2017 GIA Design, Commended, Garnock & Kilpatrick School 2017 C. N Project Award, Albert Halls, Bolton 2017 EAA, Commendation, Holyrood Postgraduate Village 2017 Scottish Property Architectural Excellence Award PRACTICE STATEMENT jmarchitects have a broad range of expertise in a variety of sectors with a network of studios in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester and London. We champion design excellence and innovation, and always strive to deliver creative, functional, sustainable and considered design solutions which satisfy, delight and inspire.
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160 West Regent Street, Glasgow, G2 4RL Tel: 0141 204 0066 Fax: 0141 226 4571 Email: glasgow@keppiedesign.co.uk Web: www.keppiedesign.co.uk Twitter: @Keppie_Design PRINCIPAL CONTACTS Fraser Low, Richard MacDonald, Peter Moran, David Ross NO. OF ARCHITECTS 53 NO. OF STAFF 98 RECENT PROJECTS AND AWARDS Civic Trust Awards • 16 Church Street - Historic Scotland Award for Conservation & Climate Change (Commendation) 2019 • Ballymena Health & Care Centre – Commendation 2017 British Council for Offices Regional Awards • 16 Church Street – Corporate Workplace Award 2019 • 16 Church Street – Innovation Award 2019 • The Capitol – Best Commercial Workplace 2017 Glasgow Institute of Architects (GIA) Awards • 16 Church Street – Office/Commercial/Industrial/ Retail Category (Commendation) 2018 Scottish Property Awards 2019 • 16 Church Street – Regeneration Project of the Year Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Northern Ireland Awards • Ballymena Health & Care Centre – Winner 2017 Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors Awards • 16 Church Street – Regeneration Project of the Year 2019 • The Capitol – Commercial Development of the Year 2017 Homes for Scotland Awards • Mansionhouse Road – Private Development of the Year (Commendation) 2019 Building Construction Authority Awards 2017 • Kampung Admiralty –BIM Award Gold Certificate • Kampung Admiralty – Green Mark Platinum Award • Assisi Hospice – Green Mark Platinum Award Council on Tall Buildings & Urban Habitats (CTBUH) Awards • Kampung Admiralty – Best Tall Mixed Use Building Award 2019 • Kampung Admiralty – Urban Habitat Award for Single-Site Scale 2019 Partnership Awards • East Lothian Community Hospital – Best Healthcare Project (Silver) 2017 PRACTICE STATEMENT We’re fuelled by the excitement and curiosity of a recent start up yet were founded in 1854. It’s this combination of energy and experience to which we owe our success and resilience as architects. Our autonomy gives us the freedom to constantly adapt, break new ground and embrace transformational projects. Our global agility allows us to lead and collaborate on a fantastically diverse and inspiring portfolio near and far. We pride ourselves on being refreshingly easy people to work with. We’re in this together to design, plan and deliver remarkable, lifechanging buildings.
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18 Walker St, Edinburgh, EH3 7LP Tel: 0131 226 7186 Email: mail@studiolba.co.uk Twitter: Studio_LBA PRINCIPAL CONTACTS Lynsay Bell Manson NO. OF ARCHITECTS 6 NO. OF STAFF 16 RECENT PROJECTS • CoDE Pod Hostel, Parliament Square, Edinburgh – Conversion of A Listed townhouse into luxury hostel • Warriston Road – Collection of 11 high end new – build apartments • Westgate, North Berwick – Alterations and extension to B listed villa to form 4 luxury waterfront apartments • Guthrie Gardens, Edinburgh – Alterations to B-Listed former school to form 30 luxury apartments • Craigleith Road – Newbuild development of eight 4-bedroom homes • Randolph Crescent – Conversion of 3 A-listed townhouses to form luxury residential apartments. • Belgrave Mews – Development of derelict car garage to form 2 new mews houses • Beechhill – Works to country estate, with refurbishments to existing country house and conversion of stables to form annex • 4-6 Melville – Conversion of 2 A-Listed townhouses to form 6 residential apartments AWARDS • 2019 EAA Awards, Wood Awards Winner – Liberton Barns, Edinburgh • 2018 Herald Property Awards for Scotland, Best Renovation/Conversion Winner – Williamstone Farm Steadings, North Berwick • 2018 Scottish Home Awards, Innovation in Design Winner – Woodhall Drive, Edinburgh PRACTICE PROFILE LBA is a young and exciting design practice with studios in Edinburgh and Kinross. With progressive ideas and a talented team of architects, artists, makers and strategic thinkers, we have grown organically to a thriving team of 16 over 2 locations in 8 short years. We are a business built on strong cultural values and relationships and have built a collaborative network of Scottish talent since our inception, from which we assemble the best team for each job. We approach each challenge with fresh enthusiasm and believe projects are most successful when all ideas are heard. Our unique process and exceptional client experience has allowed us to work on some amazing projects, ranging in value from £300k to £10m. We are known particularly for our award-winning work in one-off residential developments, but our team’s diverse experience encompasses a range of sectors, from luxury retail to striking contemporary interventions in listed townhouses. We are lucky to employ some of the most gifted creative minds in the industry, who work together to conceive extraordinary solutions that contribute positively to the environment, architectural landscape and lifestyles of our clients.
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Edinburgh 57-59 Bread Street, Edinburgh, EH3 9AH Tel: 0131 222 2900 Forres 29 St. Leonards Road, Forres, IV36 1EN Tel: 01309 673 221 Email: architects@ldn.co.uk Web: www.ldn.co.uk Twitter: @LDNArchitects Instagram: @ldnarchitects PRINCIPAL CONTACTS Mark Hopton, Stuart MacKellar, Peter Mcllhenny, Dermot Patterson, Mark Sidgwick NO. OF ARCHITECTS 28 NO. OF STAFF 41 RECENT PROJECTS • St John’s Church Edinburgh • Edinburgh Law School • Inverness Townhouse • Carra House Port Henderson • National Centre for Children’s Literature and Storytelling • Gairloch Heritage Museum • Inverness Castle Masterplan • The Boatman’s Tower and Porter’s Lodge, Lews Castle Grounds • The Cabrach Heritage Centre and Distillery • Inverness Creative Academy • The Piece Hall & Central Library AWARDS St John’s Extension • 2019 EAA Building of the Year The Piece Hall & Central Library • 2018 RIBA National Award 2018 RIBA Yorkshire Building of the Year Award • 2018 RIBA Yorkshire Award • 2018 RIBA Yorkshire Conservation Award • 2018 Historic England Heritage Angel Award Overall Winner • 2018 Historic England Heritage Angel Award Best Rescue of a Historic Building • 2018 Inverness Architectural Award for New Life for Old Buildings – Highly Commended – Inverewe House • 2018 Natural Stone Awards, Repair & Restoration Joint Winner – Inverness Townhouse McEwan Hall • 2018 RIAS Award – McEwan Hall • 2018 RCIS Scotland Awards – Commended, Conservation PRACTICE STATEMENT LDN Architects work throughout the UK on commissions of all scales. We are best known for our award-winning approach to conservation complemented by creative design; delivering projects that meet the aspirations of each client and buildings that enhance the lives of those who use them. We deliver understanding of each client’s requirements; imagination in creating designs that fully meet these requirements; and commitment to delivering a successful outcome for each client. Images: Top Row – St Johns, Edinburgh, Middle Left – Inverness Townhouse, Middle right upper - National Centre for Children’s literature and Storytelling, Middle right lower - Carra House Port Henderson, Bottom - The Piece Hall & Central Library
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8 Darnaway Street, Edinburgh, EH3 6BG Tel: 0131 226 7071 Email: mail@rankinfraser.com Web: www.rankinfraser.com PRINCIPAL CONTACTS Chris Rankin, Kenny Fraser NO. OF ARCHITECTS 9 NO. OF STAFF 9
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AWARDS 2019 Kesson Court Landscape Design • Scottish Design Awards, Winner The Knab Masterplan, Lerwick • Scottish Design Awards, Winner Western Harbour Park and Masterplan • Scottish Design Awards, Highly Commended DundasHill Landscape and Public Realm • Scottish Design Awards, Shortlisted 2018 The Dunbar Battery • AJ Retrofit Awards, Winner • Scottish Design Awards, Highly Commended • Scottish Design Awards, Shortlisted • Scottish Civic Trust My Place Awards, Commendation • Civic Trust Award, Regional Finalist City of Glasgow College City Campus • Scottish Design Awards, Winner • AJ Architecture Awards, Finalist The Bowling Viaduct • Scottish Design Awards, Shortlisted
Western Harbour Park and Masterplan, Edinburgh
PRACTICE STATEMENT We seek to design landscapes that are deeply rooted in their cultural, social and spatial context regardless of scale. We believe in the timeless beauty of simplicity, referencing Dieter Rams 10 Principles of Good Design; especially the maxim that, “Good design is as little design as possible”. In the context of designing landscapes this translates into an approach that prioritises the importance of site along with a detailed and thorough understanding of the components that constitute the character of the place. Building upon this research and understanding we seek to combine a tectonic approach that focuses on careful material selection and detailing with a strategic understanding of the wider landscape character.
DundasHill Landscape and Public Realm, Glasgow
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80 Nicholson Street, Glasgow, G5 9ER Tel: +44 (0)141-258-5015 Email: info@stallanbrand.com Web: www.stallanbrand.com PRINCIPAL CONTACTS Alistair Brand, Managing Director Paul Stallan, Design Director NO. OF ARCHITECTS 22 NO. OF STAFF 30 RECENT PROJECTS • Union Terrace Gardens • McLellan Works • Dundashill • Laurieston Living • Ravenscraig Development • Jedburgh Community Campus • Buchanan Wharf • Upper Achintore • Ness Castle Primary School AWARDS RIAS 2019 Broomlands Primary School, Best Education Building Scottish Design Awards 2018 Broomlands Primary School, Best Education Building Borders Design Awards 2018 Broomlands Primary School Glasgow Institute of Architects 2018 Broomlands Primary School, Education Building Broomlands Primary School, Supreme Award Scottish Design Awards 2017 Laurieston Living, Affordable Housing Glasgow Institute of Architects 2017 Halfmerke Primary School, Education Building PRACTICE STATEMENT Stallan-Brand Architecture + Design is an architectural practice based in Glasgow and owned by Paul Stallan and Alistair Brand, architects who have worked together for over 20 years. Since our inception in 2012, our studio has rapidly developed, delivering a diverse range of architectural and design projects. We champion transformational design; an architectural approach that embraces dialogue and creative exchange. We have a strong belief in the need for flexible and innovative design, supportive of ever changing social and urban needs.
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anderson bell + christie architects
anderson bell + christie 382 Great Western Road, Glasgow, G4 9HT Tel: 0141 339 1515 Email: gen@andersonbellchristie.com Web: www.andersonbellchristie.com Twitter username: @AndersonBellChr PRINCIPAL CONTACTS Directors - Adam Bell, Jonathan McQuillan, Stephen Lamb and Stuart Russell NO. OF ARCHITECTS 27 NO. OF STAFF 38 RECENT PROJECTS • Residential: Gannochy Trust Housing, Havannah House, East Balornock Phases 6 and 7, Greendykes Phase G, Sighthill, Sharphill Phase 4 and Holmlea Primary School. • Healthcare: Clydebank Health Centre and Doune Health Centre. • Community buildings: Quarry Road (pictured), Bearsden Burgh Halls. • Education: Early Years Nurseries for City of Edinburgh Council and Bellsbank Primary School. AWARDS • Student Accommodation Development of the Year, Scottish Property Awards.
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PRACTICE STATEMENT Anderson Bell Christie has consistently delivered creative design solutions throughout Scotland and the north of England for over 25 years. We offer a full architectural service on a diverse range of projects, and our professional, enthusiastic approach has led to satisfied clients and award-winning buildings.
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11 Wellington Square, Ayr KA7 1EN Tel 01292 289777 Fax 01292 288896 Email office@arpl.co.uk Web www.arpl.co.uk PRINCIPAL CONTACTS Gordon Fleming NO. OF ARCHITECTS 4 NO. OF STAFF 10 RECENT PROJECTS • Art Gallery, Kirkcudbright • Boathouse restoration, Glasgow Green • New secondary school, Dublin • Theatre Royal, Dumfries • Community Enterprise Centre, Kirkcudbright • Restoration of listed church buildings • Community Centre, Stranraer AWARDS • Civic Trust, RIBA, Historic Scotland, GIA • Scottish Design Awards, Roses Design Awards PRACTICE STATEMENT The architects at ARPL produce unique designs for each client and each site. We deliver the most effective solutions ensuring we meet their budget, timescale and aspirations for quality. Working with both new and historic buildings we produce projects which are sympathetic to both the immediate and broader environment and provide spaces which engage with the people who use them.
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Ailsa Court, 121 West Regent Street, Glasgow G2 2SD Tel: 0141 226 8320 Email: glasgow@hlmarchitects.com Web: www.hlmarchitects.com Twitter: @HLMArchitects PRINCIPAL CONTACTS Lorraine Robertson, Patrick Clark, Ross Barrett, David Greig NO. OF ARCHITECTS 10
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RECENT PROJECTS National Manufacturing Institute Scotland, Clyde Waterfront Innovation Campus, Grand Central Hotel IHG Rebranding, Western General Hospital Renal, LinAc and Cancer Care Units, Powell Hall & Whitehorn Hall Student Accommodation, Royal Hospital for Children and Young People & Dept of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Glasgow James McCune Smith Learning Hub. AWARDS • AScottish Design Awards Winner 2019 - Whitehorn Hall • AJ100 - 35th Largest Practice in the UK 2019 • Saltire Housing Design Award Shortlist 2019 - Powell & Whitehorn Hall • BD Architect Awards 2019 - Highly Commended, Employer of the year PRACTICE STATEMENT Thoughtful design to make better places for people. We listen and respond to the ambitions of our clients and understand the needs of the people who will use the places and spaces we create. We strive to create places of education that inspire, healthcare environments that nurture, homes that are part of thriving communities, and infrastructure that is sustainable in every sense: environmentally, economically and socially.
62 Albion Street, Glasgow Tel: 0141 572 1667 Email: mail@zmarchitecture.co.uk Web: www.zmarchitecture.com PRINCIPAL CONTACTS Peter Richardson, Nicholas Blair NO. OF STAFF 11 RECENT PROJECTS Tennents Visitor Centre, Belhaven Terrace West, Millport CARS, Rothesay THI, Campbeltown CARS, Paisley TH, Glen Coe Visitor Centre, Western Baths. AWARDS Scottish Design Awards, GIA , Civic Trust, Green Dot, Blueprint, FAD, International Design Award PRACTICE STATEMENT We provide an award winning architectural service of the highest standard producing innovative, high quality, design solutions for buildings and the built environment for our clients. ZM are accredited with the RIAS in Conservation at Advanced level. We are an ISO 9001: 2015 practice accredited with BSI.
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jmarchitects 3DReid 36 North Castle Street Edinburgh EH2 3BN T: 0345 271 6300 E: edinburgh@3DReid.com 45 West Nile Street Glasgow G1 2PT T: 0345 271 6350 E: glasgow@3DReid.com W: www.3DReid.com Twitter: @3_D_Reid Contacts: Mark Bedey, Neil de Prez, Gordon Ferrier, Charles Graham-Marr, David Llewellyn, Calum MacDonald, Gordon McGhie, Barry Paton. SEE PAGE 120
Bergmark Architects 3 Walker Street Edinburgh EH3 7JY T: 0131-603 4848 E: mail@bergmarkarchitects.co.uk W: www.bergmarkarchitects.co.uk Contact: Jens Bergmark We aim to deliver high quality projects where contemporary design interventions are combined with a detailed knowledge of historic buildings and conservation. We endeavour to achieve a high level of sustainable design utilising natural materials and up to date servicing technologies. The practice works closely with our clients in order to ensure the delivery of a final product tailored to the client’s requirements and budget.
anderson bell + christie
Maryhill Burgh Halls 10-24 Gairbraid Avenue Glasgow G20 8YE T: 0141 946 2433 E: studio@georgebuchananarchitects.com W: www.georgebuchananarchitects.com Twitter: @GBArchitectsLtd Contact: George Buchanan, Director SEE PAGE 123
Graven 175 Albion Street, Glasgow G1 1RU T: +44 (0)141 552 6626 E: info@graven.co.uk W: www.graven.co.uk Twitter: @GravenHQ
64 Queen Street Edinburgh EH2 4NA T: 0131 464 6100 E: edinburgh@jmarchitects.net 50 Bell Street Glasgow G1 1LQ T: 0141 333 3920 E: glasgow@jmarchitects.net W: www.jmarchitects.net Twitter: @_jmarchitects Contacts: Edinburgh Brian Thomson, Ryan Fletcher, Stewart Davie, Rod Duncan Glasgow Henry McKeown, Ian Alexander SEE PAGE 127
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Anderson Bell Christie 382 Great Western Road Glasgow G4 9HT T: 0141 339 1515 E: gen@andersonbellchristie.com W: www.andersonbellchristie.com Twitter: @AndersonBellChr Contact: Adam Bell, Jonathan McQuillan, Stephen Lamb and Stuart Russell
George Buchanan Architects Ltd
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200 Broomielaw, Glasgow G1 4RU T: 0141 220 2000 E: neil.mclean@atkinsglobal.com W: www.atkinsglobal.com
Hypostyle Architects 49 St Vincent Crescent Glasgow G3 8NG T: 0141 204 4441 F: 0141 204 4897 E: glasgow@hypostyle.co.uk W: www.hypostyle.co.uk
160 West Regent Street, Glasgow, G2 4RL T: 0141 204 0066 F: 0141 226 4571 E: glasgow@keppiedesign.co.uk W: www.keppiedesign.co.uk Twitter: @Keppie_Design Contacts: Fraser Low, Richard MacDonald, Peter Moran, David Ross SEE PAGE 128
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21 James Morrison Street Glasgow G1 5PE T/F: 0141 552 0888 E: info@erzstudio.co.uk W: www.erzstudio.co.uk Twitter: www.twitter.com/erzstudio Contacts: Rolf Roscher, Director Felicity Steers, Director SEE PAGE 122
ARPL Architects Ltd 11 Wellington Square, Ayr KA7 1EN T: 01292 289777 E: office@arpl.co.uk F: 01292 288896 W:www.arpl.co.uk Contact: Gordon Fleming SEE PAGE 133
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LBA HLM Architects Ailsa Court, 121 West Regent Street, Glasgow G2 2SD T: 0141 226 8320 E: glasgow@hlmarchitects.com W: www.hlmarchitects.com Twitter: @HLMArchitects Contacts: Lorraine Robertson, Patrick Clark, Ross Barrett, David Greig
18 Walker St, Edinburgh, EH3 7LP T: 0131 226 7186 E: mail@studiolba.co.uk Twitter: Studio_LBA Contacts: Lynsay Bell Manson
80 Nicholson Street Glasgow G5 9ER T: +44 (0)141-258-5015 E: info@stallanbrand.com W: www.stallanbrand.com Contact(s): Alistair Brand,Managing Director Paul Stallan, Design Director
LDN ARCHITECTS Edinburgh 57-59 Bread Street, Edinburgh EH3 9AH T: 0131 222 2900
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Ingram Architecture & Design Ltd 227 Ingram Street Glasgow G1 1DA T: 0141 221 5191 E: getus@ingramarchitecture.co.uk W: www.ingramarchitecture.co.uk Twitter: @IngramArch Contacts: Stephen Govan (Director) Avril Cranston (Director)
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Stewart Associates Chartered Architects The Studio 9 Waterside Street Largs Ayrshire KA30 9LN T: 01475 670033 F: 01475 673103 E: info@stewart-associates.com W: www.stewart-associates.com
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5 Millar Place, Edinburgh, EH10 5HJ T: 0131 447 5000 E: info@fletcherjoseph.com W: www.fletcherjoseph.com
Stallan-Brand
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Keppie
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Atkins
6 Darnaway Street Edinburgh EH3 6BG T: 0131 226 7071 E: mail@rankinfraser.com W: rankinfraser.com Contact: Chris Rankin, Kenny Fraser
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Carson & Partners
Second Floor Argyll Chambers Buchanan Street Glasgow G2 8BD T: 0141 442 0036 E: mail@carsonandpartners.com W: www.carsonandpartners.com
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62 Albion Street, Glasgow T: 0141 572 1667 E: mail@zmarchitecture.co.uk W: www.zmarchitecture.com Contacts: Peter Richardson, Nicholas Blair SEE PAGE 134
Forres 29 St. Leonards Road, Forres IV36 1EN T: 01309 673 221 E: architects@ldn.co.uk W: www.ldn.co.uk Twitter: @LDNArchitects Instagram: @ldnarchitects Contacts: Mark Hopton, Stuart MacKellar, Peter Mcllhenny, Dermot Patterson, Mark Sidgwick SEE PAGE 130
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Scotframe Timber Engineering Limited Inverurie Business Park Souterford Avenue, Inverurie AB51 0ZJ T: 01467 624440 E: inverurie@scotframe.co.uk W: www.scotframe.co.uk
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NorDan UK Ltd 3 Almondview Office Park Livingston EH54 6SF T: 01506 433 173 Web: www.nordan.co.uk
Stonecraft Edinburgh Ltd Limestone, Marble, Granite
3 Lower London Road Edinburgh EH7 5TL T: 0131 652 1464 E: info@stonecraftedinburgh.co.uk W: www.stonecraftedinburgh.co.uk SEE PAGE 104
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