Scottish Architecture News : Buildings in Scotland

Scottish Architecture News - 2012

Bogbain Mill, northern Scotland
rural design Architects

photograph : Andrew Lee
Bogbain Mill - 16 May 2012
Incorporating the few remaining freestanding walls of a former mill building, the project engages with the buildings past, without replication of its traditional forms. The starting point for the Mill project was the few freestanding walls that remained on the site. The existing walls created a series of courtyards, some of which has begun to be re-inhabited by nature.

Aberdeen City Garden Competition

image of winning design
Aberdeen City Garden Design : news - 14 May + 2 Mar + 29 Feb
The controversial £140m garden project in Aberdeen may be cancelled. Back in March residents vote yes in the referendum on controversial plans to redevelop the city's Union Terrace Gardens. People were asked if they want to keep the historic gardens as they are or back the £140m City Garden Project redevelopment. But with changes after the recent election it appears the project may not now proceed.

Fairydean Stadium, Galashiels, Scottish Borders
1965
Peter Womersley, Architect

photo © Adrian Welch
Gala Fairydean Stadium - photos added 7 May 2012
This building is designed in a similar architecture style to Meadowbank Stadium in Edinburgh. The raw shuttering of the concrete, the powerful angular forms and the focus on cantilever and buttresses in tension are dominant. The building was controversially listed by Historic Scotland in late 2006.

Carnegie Primary School, Fife
Archial

picture © Keith Hunter Photography
Carnegie Primary School - 16 Apr 2012
Carnegie is a two stream New Build Primary School building designed to accommodate 424 main stream pupils, 140 Nursery pupils and 20 ASN children. Built to service Dunfermline’s East Area expansion, the brief called for a high quality design to provide a highly functional, sustainable school building fit for a modern curriculum and to be adaptable to future needs.

BMS Annex Building, University of St Andrews, Fife
bmj architects

photo © Keith Hunter
University of St Andrews Building - 13 Apr
The building will accommodate research staff and consists of open CL2 labs with secondary specialist lab accommodation such as imaging labs and equipment rooms together with lab support such as cold rooms and wash-up facilities.

Outer Hebrides Media Centre

photos from ZM Architecture
New Creative Industries and Media Centre opened recently in Stornoway, designed by ZM Architecture, Glasgow. The CIMC building is located former Harris Tweed Mill. 13 Apr

St Peter's Seminary, Cardross, Scotland
Architects: Gillespie Kidd & Coia

photo © Niels Lomholt
St Peter's Seminary Cardross - 24 Mar
Article by e-architect Editor, Adrian Welch
This post-war Modernist masterpiece that has been falling into disrepair. Arts charity NVA acquired the building from the Catholic church and hopes to raise £10 million for its redevelopment over the next two years. They plan to convert the Cardross Seminary building into an ‘intentional Modernist ruin’, but opinions differ on how much of the building to return into use.

RIAS Awards News
RIAS Awards : shortlist news
RIAS Announces Strong Scottish Shortlist for Inaugural RIAS Awards
The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) has announced a 23 strong shortlist for the inaugural RIAS Awards. The judging panel for this year included RIAS President Sholto Humphries, Dr Anne Lorne Gillies, Scottish singer, songwriter, broadcaster, author and academic, Robert Dye of Robert Dye Associates, London and Peter Wilson, Director of the Wood Studio at Napier University.

University of the West of Scotland Ayr Campus, south west Scotland - photos

photo © Keith Hunter Photography
UWS Ayr Campus building - design by RMJM Architects. 6 Mar

Scottish Borders Buildings

photograph © Adrian Welch
Scottish Borders Buildings - photos. 17 Jan
Photographs of some key architecture in southern Scotland

Battle of Bannockburn Visitor Centre
Battle of Bannockburn Visitor Centre, Stirling

Marischal College Building
Marischal College, Aberdeen - building complete : Holmes

V&A Dundee News

render from V&A
V&A Dundee : Scottish Architecture news

South Clerk Street Odeon Cinema
Former Odeon Cinema Edinburgh - "A Compulsory Purchase Order is our last hope to breathe life back into the old Odeon building".

Scottish Design Awards 2012
The Scottish Design Awards have issued a call for entries for their 2012 awards program, a highlight in the architectural and design calendar.
As ever the event aims to recognize the best graphic and architectural design in Scotland.

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