Dundee Architecture News:

Riverside Drive residential development
2009-11
202 apartments, five blocks of 7-9 storeys
£25m
For Duncarse Riverside Limited

Tay Hotel Redevelopment
Former B-listed Tay Hotel to be converted into 22 flats and a 44-bed hotel with a bar and restaurant. The hotel - empty for a decade - was built in 1889

Dundee Council housing
Dundee could be set to launch a new council house building programme, after a report to Dundee City Council's housing, Dundee Contracts and environment services committee detailed a number of initiatives, including increasing the stock of much-needed homes for the disabled. If councillors agree the proposals it would mean the first new council housing built on a reasonably large scale for over two decades in Dundee. The report states that 40 fully wheelchair accessible homes and 95 mainstream properties could be provided within three years.

Dundee HQ Approval
Dundee City Council HQ proposal approved

image from Reiach and Hall Architects in 2006
Dundee Council Office building

The Wave Dundee

FM Homes development at City Quay, Dundee: 15-storey elliptical tower housing 25 luxury 2-bed apartments & 3-bed penthouse. Final stage of FM Homes’ City Quay developments: FM Homes have completed two developments at City Quay - Merchant's Quay and Southern Wharf: Dundee Building News

University of Dundee
New Teaching Block almost complete, by Campbell & Arnott: Dundee building

Dundee Building Awards
Dundee Institute of Architects Design Awards 2007 deadline: 21 Jul

deHavilland Hotel
Dundee airport hotel – planning approved May 2007: 60 bedrooms; rooftop restaurant
aim design, Dundee architects
Developers: Lomond Group

V&A Museum
Victoria & Albert Museum planning first outpost in Scotland, by Kathryn Findlay, with the University of Dundee - details online soon

Recent Dundee Architecture:

Dundee University Campus - recent building:
Queen Mother Building
Page/Park Architects

photo © adrian welch
Dundee University building

Ted Cullinan Building
Edward Cullinan Architects

image © adrian welch
Dundee building


Key Dundee Architecture:

Maggies Centre, Ninewells
Frank Gehry was selected to design Dundee Maggies Centre by friend Charles Jencks and his former wife - Maggie Keswick-Jencks - who died of cancer

building photo © adrian welch
Donate to Maggies Dundee: 01382 496384

Dundee Contemporary Arts 1997-1999
Richard Murphy Architects

image from Richard Murphy Architects
Richard Murphy has been described as Scotland's most famous living architects: the DCA is surely his most famous work. The building houses galleries, a cinema, cafe-bar and a print studio

Scottish School of Contemporary Dance
Nicoll Russell Studios
The Space, Dundee College

image from Nicoll Russell Studio

Apex Hotel Dundee
Ian Springford Architects
4 star hotel, located next to Victoria Dock

building photo from Mike Stoane Lighting



Other Dundee Buildings:
Dundee Rep Theatre 1982; 1998-2000 refurb by Nicoll Russell Studios
Dundee Student Villages 2005 by Smith Scott Mullan

Dundee Collection : McManus Galleries & Museum

Dundee Schools
2007-
Holmes Partnership

Gardyne’s Land, 68 High Street
-
Simpson & Brown
Client: Dundee City Council

Grianan Building, Technology Park
1986
Nicoll Russell Studios

Pennycook Court, Perth Road
1986
Page & Park Architects

Northern College, Gardyne Rd
1976
Thoms & Wilkie

Matthew Building, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Perth Road
1974
Baxter Clark and Paul

Modern Dundee Buildings:
Bonar Hall, Park Place
1975
Gillespie Kidd & Coia Architects

New Taybank Mill
1949
Kenneth Masson

Scottish Architecture : best Scottish Buildings of the last three decades

Dundee Institute of Architects: Dialogue magazine

Ninewells Expansion
Wylie Shanks Architects appointed as lead consultant and architect for the £3m extension of the Radiotherapy Department at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee



World Architecture : e-architect - a guide to key buildings across the globe

Dundee Architecture Jobs

Dundee building - Baxter Park Pavilion, Dundee : Scottish Design Awards 2007 - Listed Building Re-use Shortlist: Dundee City Council

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