Aberdeen Architecture - Building News from 2006

News 2007-08:
Donside urban village
Planning approval for largest affordable home development in North East Scotland at former Donside Paper Mill, Tillydrone: 25-acre brownfield site, 278 new homes

Triple Kirks News
Stewart Milne Developments acquires derelict Triple Kirks in Aberdeen from Esson Properties. Redevelopment as offices proposed.

Peacock Visual Arts

Scottish Government approve Aberdeen Contemporary Arts Centre, Mar 2008

Trump Inquiry
Donald Trump’s housing estate with golf courses & hotel - partly located on a key piece of Scotland’s protected natural heritage - goes to Public Inquiry

New Aberdeen stadium
Report to be submitted 19 Dec : Aberdeen football stadium

Aberdeen Library
University of Aberdeen Library approved

No to Trump Course
Donald Trump golf resort proposal knocked into the long grass

SEPA Offices Aberdeen
Waterfront Offices & Labs on brownfield site in Torry by Keppie Design for
Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) + 19 houses & 27 flats for Grampian Housing Association. Sepa to share office space with Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) and the Joint Nature Conservation Council; the design includes solar panels, groundwater heat pump & wind turbines

Aberdeen City Council HQ

Copyright: Aberdeen City Council
Conversion of Marischal College: Aberdeen Council HQ

Decision deferred on Trump's golf resort proposal
The Formartine area committee to visit the site and hold a hearing on 2 Oct:
Aberdeen development

Robert Gordon University Aberdeen - new Architecture School
Shortlist of 9 architects for £80m relocation to the Garthdee campus, 2007

Esslemont & Macintosh : Hotel
Five-storey E&M building bought by C&L Properties to be 120-bed Aberdeen hotel

New Prof
The Scott Sutherland School of Architecture & Built Environment in Aberdeen appoint new Visiting Professor: Alan Dunlop of gm+ad architects

Boutique Hotel Proposal
Proposal by Bancon Developments to create 100-bed four-star hotel at former Aberdeen Megabowl bowling alley site recommended for approval by Aberdeen City Council. Facing onto St Andrew’s Street the 5-7 storey hotel would also be bounded by George Street, Charlotte Street & John Street. Previously Detailed Planning consent was granted in Jun 2006 for 56 flats & two shops

Aberdeen Urban Village
Former Richard’s textile factory £50m conversion approved in principal by Aberdeen City Council : went to Planning committee 160807, scroll down page for more

Peacock Visual Arts - Centre for Contemporary Arts
Planning submission for Aberdeen Contemporary Arts Centre. The proposed building is to be located at Union Terrace Gardens and is designed by Brisac Gonzalez Architects, London Jul 2007

Mither Kirk Project
£5.1m St Nicholas Kirk redevelopment

Aberdeen Energy Development Centre
Energy Development Centre to promote research, design and development within the industry. The £4.73m Energy Development Centre - complete with biomass boiler & wind turbine - is due to start on site this Autumn, and include 27 business units. Located at Aberdeen Science and Energy Park at the Bridge of Don, next to Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre Jul 2007

Justice Mill Lane Approved
Richard Murphy Architects’ Aberdeen development for Hazledene Estates received planning permission Jun 2007

Prince's Foundation : Ellon
The Sustainable Growth of Ellon event took place on 14 Jun 2007, organised by the Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment. Hank Dittmar, chief executive of the Prince's Foundation, said Ellon had become "a dormitory town" serving Aberdeen "rather than a place in its own right”.

The Prince's Trust invited architect Ray Gindroz, chairman of Urban Design Associates, Pittsburgh, to join the workshop and outline a future model for the town. Mr Gindroz identified numerous weaknesses in the town's design, like cul-de-sacs with limited town centre access and large-scale housing developments rather than proper neighbourhoods.

Aberdeen Urban Village
Former Richard’s textile factory £50m conversion approved in principal by Aberdeen City Council
Developer: First Construction
Site: Broadford Works, Maberly St
Proposal: 221 flat conversions; 177 new-build flats; retail; pub; restaurant; offices
Area: 8.6-acres
Status: A-listed buildings incl. oldest iron-framed mill in Scotland, dated 1808

First Group HQ
Approval recommended for First Group Aberdeen headquarters

Archibald Simpson Book unveiled
Book by David Miller re the architect of buildings such as Marischal College, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary and Aberdeen Music Hall

New Horizons House
2007-08
New 46,500 sq ft Grade A office development for Seletar Shipping on site of existing Horizons House at Waterloo Quay, Aberdeen. Knight Frank to project manage this six storey £11m building

Aberdeen HQ
New Headquarters for Wood Group Engineering (North Sea) unit

Aberdeen Hotel approved
KBA proposal at former Queens Hotel. Full planning permission to alter and extend the listed building for Malmaison gained by Kerr Blyth Associates

Donside Urban Village - Aberdeen housing ’environmentally-friendly urban village’
Halliday Fraser Munro

Union Square masterplan – Odeon cinema, Aberdeen
2006
BDP
Shopping centre: Competition won by BDP - £58m

Holiday Inn Aberdeen West by KBA Feb07

Photo from KBA 010207

Westhill Shopping Centre Expansion Feb07
Edinburgh-based Gladedale Capital purchased Westhill Shopping Centre and is
reportedly proposing planning submission for a 30,000sqft extension

Aberdeen Sports Centre by Reiach and Hall Architects gets funding Dec06

Plans submitted for Aberdeen hotel by Curious Architecture Ltd Nov06

Outline planning application by Trump International Golf Links to Aberdeenshire Council for golf course & luxury resort development: Aberdeen development Nov06

Queen's Hotel to be converted to £7m Malmaison Hotel Aberdeen Oct06

HTA Architects' £500m Aberdeen Community Regeneration Sep06

£25m Shell Aberdeen HQ building approved Sep06

Bon Accord Masterplan approved Sep06

Union Plaza building
2006-08
Aberdeen's largest speculative office development
Location: Union Row
125,000sqft

Aberdeen Market overhaul approved Sep06 with links from listed Union Street buildings down to the market

Extension to His Majesty's Theatre Aberdeen - one of the few Scottish buildings nominated for Civic Building of the Year Sep06

Trump Tower
The Scotsman reports possible plans for '250 properties' within Trump Organisation's Golf development at Balmedie, north of Aberdeen, by architects Jenkins & Marr: please note plans are not yet lodged but due this Autumn. Designs unveiled so far for the Clubhouse and 500-room hotel reveal a traditional Victorian style: 230806

Riverside Development
Dyce housing by Holmes Partnership: 080806

Aberdeen Sports Building
£23m Regional Sports Centre in Aberdeen by Reiach and Hall Architects

Aberdeen University Library Competition
Winner: Schmidt Hammer & Lassen

Image from SHL 230207
Shortlisted: Page \ Park Architects, MacCormac Jamieson Prichard, Moshe Safdie with Allan Murray Architects, O'Donnell + Tuomey Architects, Bennetts Associates

Aberdeen Medical Facility - Matthew Hay Project
Bennetts Associates
£16m Medical Education Facility

Justice Mill Lane
Richard Murphy Architects
Aberdeen city centre development
former Satrosphere site redevelopment
£40m office space + landmark hotel + residential accommodation

Peacock Visual Arts – Architecture Competition:
Shortlist: 3XN - 3 x Nielsen, Reiach and Hall Architects, Richard Murphy Architects, Nicol Russell Studios
Proposed pavilion in centre of Queensgate would require removal of the Mercat Cross
Feasibility study by Nicol Russell Studios
Cancelled early 2006

Hill of Banchory Primary School
Completed in northeast Banchory, Kincardineshire by Holmes Partnership

Key Aberdeen buildings (chronological order):

St Nicholas Kirk:
from 12thC

photo from 2006 © Adrian Welch
West St Nicholas
from 1741
James Gibbs
Link: Scottish Architects
East St Nicholas
1835-37
Architect Simpson


Provost Ross' House
1593
George Johnsone

photo from 2006 © Adrian Welch

The Tolbooth
1616-29
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Aberdeen Museum of Civic History

Mercat Cross
1686
John Montgomery

Town & Country Buildings
1868 - 74
Peddie Kinnear

photo from 2006 © Adrian Welch
Town & Country buildings in background
Also by Peddie Kinnear: Caledonian Hotel Edinburgh

King's College
1500 -
Various Architects inc. John Smith & Robert Matheson

Provost Skene's House
1545
Unknown

photo from 2006 © Adrian Welch
Sir George Skene served as Provost of Aberdeen in 1676-85 and was a rich
merchant
Provost Skene's House

Robert Gordon's Hospital
1731; 1833
John Smith

photo from 2006 © Adrian Welch
Now a school: Robert Gordon's Aberdeen

Marischal College - Rebuilding
1891
A. Marshall Mackenzie

photo from 2006 © Adrian Welch
2nd largest granite frontage in the world after Escorial in Madrid
Founded 1593
Marischal College

Aberdeen Art Gallery
1905
A. Marshall Makenzie

photo from 2006 © Adrian Welch
Beautiful atrium, strong collection

His Majesty's Theatre
1906
Frank Matcham

photo from 2006 © Adrian Welch
Extension + Renovation: see further down page

Cowdray Hall
1923 - 25
A. Marshall Makenzie & Son

photo from 2006 © Adrian Welch

St Katharine's Centre / The Lemon Tree
1937
Jenkins & Marr
Modern Art Deco style

St Nicholas House
1962
Aberdeen City Architect's Department

photos from 2004 © David Welch

photo from 2006 © Adrian Welch
Due for demolition
St Nicholas House

John Lewis Store
1966 - 70
Covell Matthews Architects

Bon Accord Centre
1989
Jenkins & Marr

photo ©Tony Freeman
Bon Accord Centre

Maritime Museum, Shiprow
1996/97: redevelopment
Aberdeen City Council Architect's Department
incl. 16th c Provost Ross House & 19th c Trinity Congregational Church

Faculty of Management & Design Library
1998
Foster & Partners
Robert Gordon University

photo from 2006 © Adrian Welch
RGIT Faculty of Management, Aberdeen featured in AJ 25 Mar 99.
This £18m building features a dramatic curved steel roof

Scott Sutherland School of Architecture - Tower Building
-
Dixon.Jones Architects
Robert Gordon University

photo from 2006 © Adrian Welch
Postmodern influence from Aldo Rossi and local Castles

Aberdeen City Centre Masterplan
Bon Accord Centre + St Nicholas Centre + St Nicholas House
Masterplan for £200m development aimed at regenerating Aberdeen city centre
2004/05-

Aberdeen Regeneration: image from HOK Architects

Aberdeen Masterplan

His Majesty's Theatre - Extension
2003-05
Aberdeen City Council Architects

building image from 2006 © Adrian Welch
Aberdeen Theatre building

Aberdeen Harbour Masters' Tower
2006
SMC Parr Architects

photos from 2006 © Adrian Welch
Marine Operations Centre : Aberdeen Harbour

More Aberdeen building images online soon

Don't Miss:
The interior of the Art Gallery - simply beautiful

Aberdeen Housing
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photo from 2006 © Adrian Welch

Footdee Houses


Gray's School of Art


Aberdeen Buildings - Photos:

Docks; Robert Gordon's entry; Aberdeem Harbour Masters



Scottish Architecture

Millbank Development, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
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Eric Parry Architects

Chevron House, Hill of Rubislaw
2007-
Architects SMC Jenkins & Marr
New Upstream European HQ for Chevron Upstream Europe
110,000 sqft

Aberdeen Society of Architects
The Aberdeen Society of Architects (ASA), a chapter of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland, represents some 230 Chartered Architects within the City of Aberdeen, across Aberdeenshire and also Morayshire. The ASA runs a Student Awards scheme, with prizes gifted annually to students Scott Sutherland School of Architecture, and recently the ASA has instituted its own Design Awards, to recognise excellence in architecture in the area. The ASA’s main objective is to promote the interests of architects and architecture within its geographical area. The ASA website went live at the start of August 2005.

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