Edinburgh Architecture News in 2015, Lothian Buildings, Architects, Images, Scotland, Design
Edinburgh Building News 2015
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Edinburgh Architecture News 2015
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Alternative Royal High School Proposal
24 Sep – A major battle is brewing as leading contemporary and conservation architects collaborate on an alternative to the controversial design by Glasgow’s Gareth Hoskins Archiects. Set against a backdrop of an impending ICOMOS visit to Edinburgh to check on the World Heritage site status this controversy is the ‘new Caltongate’, though the St James Quarter’s ‘walnut whip’ is giving it a good run for its money.
The Royal High School Preservation Trust (RHSPT) has appointed Richard Murphy Architects and Simpson & Brown to develop alternate proposals for the restoration of Edinburgh’s former Royal High School.
Backed by the Dunard Fund charitable trust (run by Carol Høgel, an American touring concert pianist and long-time fan of Richard Murphy), the Trust has made a formal legal offer of £1.5 m to buy the iconic buildings and will pursue plans to restore the site for St Mary’s Music School.
The Trust intends to submit a detailed and fully funded application to the City of Edinburgh Council as soon as possible. The vision will provide an alternative to Hoskins Architects’ £75m plans to turn the school into a hotel.
Meadowbank Sports Centre News
24 Sep – The vision for a new Meadowbank Sports Centre has moved a step closer after the City of Edinburgh Council revealed the funding shortfall has dropped dramatically, reports Scottish Construction News.
According to a report in February, the estimated cost of the project was £43 m with a funding shortfall of around £11 to 20 m. Now the latest Meadowbank report, which will be discussed by the council’s corporate policy and strategy committee next week, has revised the figures to £42m with a shortfall of £6.8m. The council attributed the change to increasing land values, a modified and re-costed design and the lack of significant issues resulting from the intrusive ground survey.
Zaha Hadid for RIBA’s Royal Gold Medal
24 Sep – Architect Zaha Hadid has become the first woman to be awarded the prestigious Royal Gold Medal by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), revealed e-architect first thing this morning. Dame Zaha Hadid will receive the 2016 Royal Gold Medal in recognition of her lifetime’s built, theoretical and academic work.
Heritage Lottery Fund News
24 Sep – Edinburgh’s City Observatory and the Govanhill baths in Glasgow are among six Scottish projects to be restored thanks to investment from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), reports Scottish Construction News. A total of £7m is being made available for projects across Scotland.
The City Observatory on Calton Hill in Edinburgh, currently on the buildings at-risk register, is to receive £1.3m to create a visual art gallery space. The complex will also include the original telescopes, which will be restored, an education space and heritage trails and viewpoints leading to it.
Other projects receiving funding include Kirkcudbright Art Gallery, Academy Street in Inverness, Govanhill baths in Glasgow, the Davidson Cottage Hospital, Girvan and the Fife Pilgrim Way.
TAP Design Blueprint
23 Sep – An Edinburgh architecture firm has developed a design manifesto for the country’s burgeoning food and drink industry, aiming to bring the benefits of good design and architecture to manufacturing businesses, reports Scottish Construction News.
As the food and drink industry takes centre stage for Scotland’s 2015 ‘Year of Food and Drink’, TAP (Taylor Architecture Practice) – run by father and son team David and Neil Taylor – is playing a key role in modernising the food production process in factories across Scotland, with their team of specialists whose technical expertise and design vision delivers buildings of distinction.
Isle of Harris Distillery News
25 Sep – Work to build a new distillery and visitor centre in Tarbert , Isle of Harris, has concluded with an official opening ceremony, reports Urban Realm.
Burrell Collection Building News
25 Sep – A number of design teams have been assembled to pursue the prestigious £66m contract to overhaul Glasgow’s Burrell Collection, reports Urban Realm.
Larkhall Building
24 Sep – Industrial specialists Taylor Architecture Practice (TAP) has been appointed to extend an existing fish distribution centre in Larkhall by 2,500sq/m to provide additional cold storage and loading, reports Urban Realm.
Disused Railway Tunnel in Edinburgh
23 Sep – Edinburgh based co-design studio Here + Now, a team of landscape architects, designers and photographers, is to repurpose a disused railway tunnel in Edinburgh for a month, reports Urban Realm.
Richard Murphy Architects Cambridge Campus
23 Sep – Richard Murphy Architects have handed over the final phase of Anglia Ruskin University’s Young Street campus, Cambridge, reports Urban Realm.
Portobello Affordable Homes by 7N Architects
22 Sep – 7N Architects have submitted plans to build 52 homes on brownfield land at Fishwives Causeway, Portobello, on behalf of Cruden – fulfilling the affordable housing requirement of a wider site, reports Urban Realm.
B-listed Edinburgh Offices
22 Sep – Morgan McDonnell Architects have submitted revised plans on behalf of Square and Crescent for a residential conversion and extension of 235 Corstorphine Road, a B-listed former Barnardos, reports Urban Realm..
Queen Street Station Redevelopment News
22 Sep – Network Rail is pressing ahead with its £104m redevelopment of Queen Street Station, despite plans to remodel Buchanan Galleries being thrown into doubt, by submitting plans for the demolition, reports Urban Realm.
Concept House in Edinburgh
22 Sep – A recent design for Blackwood Housing by Lewis & Hickey’s Edinburgh office was showcased at their AGM held at Edinburgh’s Dynamic Earth. A scale replica of a highly accessible concept house for people with disability or mobility issues was part of the ‘Innovation of Home and Care Expo 2015’. The housing and care provider is planning to construct a pilot scheme of the concept house in Dundee, in the near future.
Michael Laird Architects Promotions
22 Sep – MLA has promoted Adam Frickleton to associate director and Garth Fitzsimons to associate architect. Adam Frickleton joined the practice in 2003 and since then has become a key member of staff working on the design and delivery of some of Scotland’s major commercial and educational projects. He is currently working in Glasgow on the new City of Glasgow College. Garth Fitzsimons joined MLA in 2013 and has successfully driven some complex projects including a new hotel & retail development in St Andrews and the regeneration and conservation of the category A-listed Corn Exchange building in Dalkeith.
Millerhill Waste Building News
22 Sep – Midlothian Council has unanimously granted planning permission to FCC Environment (UK) Ltd for the construction of a waste recycling and combined heat and power plant on former railway marshalling yards at Millerhill. FCC Medio Ambiente SA was appointed preferred bidder in Dec 2014 for the contract to design, build, finance and operate facilities to treat and recover value from all the waste collected by City of Edinburgh and Midlothian Councils that currently goes directly to landfill. This 25-year contract will involve the thermal treatment of up to 135,000 tonnes of mixed waste annually to produce electricity for the National Grid and heat suitable for a district heating scheme, with less than 5% of all waste going to landfill in line with Scottish Government targets.
Scottish Affordable Homes
22 Sep – More than 1,000 affordable homes for rent with a total value of £146m have been delivered through the National Housing Trust initiative (NHT) over the last four years.The scheme is on track to deliver more than 2,000 NHT homes in communities across Scotland. The milestone was reached with the completion of homes in Westercraigs, Inverness. The Scottish Government and the Scottish Futures Trust, developed the original NHT model for councils and developers.
Scottish Housing Crisis
21 Sep – messgae from leader of Perth City Hall Supporters Group:
“This is the final total of all those who added their signatures to the petition to allow the public to see inside Perth City Hall on Doors Open Day, and I have also included the accompanying letter which I sent to the 41 councillors. Well done to everyone – what an amazing result – 1,235 signatures! This will let the council know that if they try to demolish the building they will be opposed by thousands of people. Also included are two articles in the Courier.”
Website: Perth City Hall Doors Closed Article
Website: Perth City Hall on Doors Open Day Petition Article
Scottish Housing Crisis
21 Sep – Responding to today’s announcement that the UK Government wants to see a million homes built across England by 2020 in order to tackle the housing crisis there, Homes for Scotland Chief Executive Philip Hogg said “With the number of new homes built north of the border having fallen by 40% since 2007, Scotland faces the same challenges as those being highlighted in England today. As numerous reports have identified, hundreds of thousands of new homes are needed here over the next twenty years to meet the diverse housing needs of our growing population. More details on the Glasgow Architecture website news page.
Edinburgh Architecture Website
21 Sep – We are back up and running after a difficult server migration, more news online shortly.
V&A’s £80m Dundee museum
20 Sep – The V&A has released a video of what its new £80m museum in Dundee will look like once it is completed in 2017:
New building flythrough of V&A Dundee Museum of Design from V&A Dundee Building on Vimeo
A computer-generated fly-through shows the outside of the building, the layout and facilities on offer to visitors. Plans for the V&A at Dundee are to go on show at the 2015 London Design Festival.
V&A Dundee’s new display, “Architecture Now: V&A Museum of Design Dundee” incorporates this newly commissioned visualisation allowing visitors to experience and explore the developing Dundee waterfront and interior of V&A Dundee.
Part of the V&A + RIBA Architecture Partnership it will remain on display at the V&A Architecture Gallery until Spring 2016.
The new virtual tour created by Edinburgh-based Luma3Di, allows viewers to sweep in to the new museum from the River Tay, through the main hall and up to the first floor to see the public spaces, learning suite and restaurant, revealing new interior detail for the first time.
An accompanying film featuring V&A Dundee Director Philip Long completes the display. Including new footage from the museum’s construction site, the film explores Dundee’s industrious heritage, ongoing 30-year waterfront redevelopment plan and recent status as a designated UNESCO City of Design.
Philip Long, Director of V&A Dundee said:
“This is a fantastic opportunity to communicate with a new audience, many of whom may not have visited Dundee before. We believe V&A Dundee will be one of the must-see buildings of 21st century Europe. It will bring together outstanding design materials from the V&A’s world-renowned collections with loans from across Scotland, as well as showcasing extraordinary design exhibitions from the V&A.
“Architecture Now: V&A Museum of Design Dundee allows us to generate widespread awareness and discussion about Scotland’s first dedicated design museum in advance of our opening, and gives audiences an exciting preview of what’s to come in 2018.“
Dundee City Council administration leader Councillor Ken Guild said:
“The major investment in V&A Dundee will bring real benefits for the city and I am looking forward to seeing Kengo Kuma’s breathtaking vision become reality beside the River Tay.
“Dundee’s profile is already benefiting from our association with the V&A. This can already be seen with the award of UNESCO City of Design status which reflects our growing international reputation.
“The aspirational V&A Dundee project is designed to provide the city and Scotland with a world-class museum which will help to provide jobs and wider economic benefits. ”
Architecture Now at the V&A is a changing display in partnership with RIBA, showcasing the innovative and the inspirational in architecture today – how changing needs, conditions and technologies contribute to and shape the development of the built environment around us.
Event information:
Architecture Now: V&A Museum of Design Dundee
Architecture Gallery Landing, Room 127, Staircase P, level 4
19 September 2015 – 25 April 2016
Free, drop in
V&A Dundee Architecture Now film and new building flythrough
V&A Dundee
V&A Museum of Design Dundee will be an international centre for design, housed in a world-class building created by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma at the heart of Dundee’s revitalised waterfront. It will host major exhibitions, celebrate design heritage, inspire and promote contemporary talent, and encourage future design innovation.
V&A Dundee is being delivered by Design Dundee Ltd, a partnership between the Victoria and Albert Museum – the world’s greatest museum of art and design – Dundee City Council, the University of Dundee, Abertay University and Scottish Enterprise.
Key funders of the project to develop V&A Dundee include the Scottish Government, the Heritage Lottery Fund and Creative Scotland.
Contemporary Suburban Edinburgh Home
18 Sep – Purcell has lifted the lid on a contemporary family home in suburban Edinburgh, squeezed into a narrow plot sandwiched between two existing houses, reports Urban Realm.
Riverside Campus
18 Sep – City of Glasgow College has taken possession of its £50m Riverside Campus following its handover by contractor Sir Robert McAlpine on time and on budget, reports Urban Realm.
New Cramond Building
14 Sep – Yeoman McAllister Architects have submitted plans for a new care home on behalf of the Care Concern Group at 18 Whitehouse Road, Edinburgh, within the Cramond Conservation Area, reports Urban Realm. Sporting a rendered exterior with timber cladding and reconstituted stone detailing the 61 bedroom facility is located within an established residential neighbourhood, facing a steep wooded embankment down to the River Almond. An unlisted detached home dating from the 1960s/70s set within 0.48 hectares of land will be demolished to make way for the scheme.
New Edinburgh Student Development
14 Sep – A new 92,000 sqft student housing development is set to be built in Edinburgh following a £19m investment secured by Maven Capital Partners.
The firm will act as the asset manager on behalf of IP Investment Management (IPIM), a Singapore-based Investment Fund, on the scheme which will see 255 purpose-built bedrooms built on Gorgie Road by Summer 2017.
There are an estimated 34,000 students in Edinburgh who do not have access to university halls of residence or purpose-built accommodation.
Kelso High School Building News
14 Sep – Construction work on a £21.4m new high school in the Scottish Borders has been delayed until 2016 as a result of a European ruling affecting investment projects across the country, reports Scottish Construction News.
Scottish Borders Council, had hoped to start work on the new Kelso High School building this summer having secured planning permission in October 2014. However the European ruling means schemes which have been given investment through the Scottish Futures Trust and were previously treated as private sector projects must now be considered as being public sector funded.
Rosyth Dockyard Building
10 Sep – Keppie have resumed their collaboration with Abstract following their work at St Vincent Plaza, Glasgow, by preparing designs for a 60,000sqft office development within a secure zone at Rosyth Dockyard, Fife. This will see the existing Navy House demolished and replaced with Grade A office space for occupation by Babcock Group.
Donaldson’s School Building
5 Sep – new photos of former Donaldson’s School for the Deaf, Haymarket, west Edinburgh:
Edinburgh Academy Rugby Pavilion
1 Sep – new photo:
Architect in the Hoose 2015
31 Aug – Architect in the Hoose:
Carole Baxter:
University of Stirling Building News
31 Aug – Juniper Court, the fourth residence block for Stirling University Campus was handed over to the University on Friday. The building contains 251 en-suite bedrooms, 15 of which are accessible. A large south facing double-height foyer looks out onto a courtyard which overlooks Airthrey Loch to the Wallace Monument. The timber structure is clad in ivory-coloured Forticrete blockwork, with lower sections of spruce blockwork and Portland stone feature bands at every floor. Integral bat boxes have been included on the building due to a resident population.
Edinburgh Sulpture Workshop Building
19 Aug – Edinburgh Sulpture Workshop Building
Edinburgh roundabout
12 Aug – Poor quality public realm at such a key entry to the city – why dear leaders? (or why dear readers?)
Basil Spence flats in Wardie
12 Aug – photographed on a visit to Andy Stoane’s office:
Pecha Kucha
5 Aug – Pecha Kucha:
Carlton Hotel Collection Market Street
22 Jun – Carlton Hotel Collection on Market Street:
Haddington George Hotel
1 Jun – Haddington George Hotel photos
Edinburgh Academy rugby pavilion building
31 May – Edinburgh Academy rugby pavilion building as renewal works commence:
HFS Awards News
18 May – HFS Awards 2015 winners
Grzywinski+Pons Building
18 May – Grzywinski+Pons have been granted consent and approval for their forthcoming project in Scotland with a unanimous vote from the Edinburgh City Council.
Union Canal Hotel:
Richard Murphy House
13 May – photo of Richard Murphy house in Edinburgh New Town:
Easter Road Stadium Edinburgh
10 May – Hibs Stadium:
Straiton Film and TV Studio
6 May – Straiton Film and TV Studio:
EAA Building of the Year Award for 2015
31 Mar – Mcdonnell, Morgan and Stewart with award – The Edinburgh Architectural Association Awards were announced and presented at a drinks reception in the Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation on Tuesday 31st March, attended by around one hundred architects, sponsors and their guests. The EAA Building of the Year Award for 2015 went to Advocate’s Close by Morgan McDonnell Architecture.:
St Bernards Row Property
21 Mar – photos of newly-completed St Bernards Row Property in Stockbridge:
David Mcdiarmid Exhibition
4 Apr – image from the David Mcdiarmid Exhibition:
RSA New Contemporaries exhibition
4 Mar – image from annual RSA New Contemporaries exhibition: all five art schools in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee, Aberdeen and Elgin are represented, opens in Edinburgh next week:
15 September 2014 – new photographs of buildings round George Square, Quartermile, St Giles Kirk and in the Old Town:
11 June 2014 – University of Edinburgh Tidal Testing Facility by Bennetts Associates:
16 May 2014 – Biological Sciences Laboratories and Hub, Edinburgh by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios:
5 May 2014 – Scottish National Gallery Transformation by Gareth Hoskins Architects, Glasgow:
Calton Gate Edinburgh buildings:
28 February 2014 – Scottish Property Awards 2014: The SSE Hydro, the Dundee Waterfront, the Commonwealth Games Athletes’ Village and Advocates Close in Edinburgh were among the winners:
Edinburgh College of Art exhibition:
2 May 2014 – Scottish National Gallery Transformation by Gareth Hoskins Architects:
RSA Edinburgh building:
Museum of Scotland interior:
Dugald Stewart Monument:
Tynecastle, Edinburgh football club:
Old College Edinburgh University – visit on Doors Open Day:
Caltongate development:
John Knox House Edinburgh:
Forth Rail Bridge Viewing Platform:
Cowgate hotel, South Bridge:
3 June 2014 – new photos of the empty Market Street building opposite the Fruitmarket Gallery, an eyesore close to the heart of the Edinburgh World Heritage Site:
Scottish Parliament entrance:
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