Scottish Architecture News

YAYA 2009 shortlist announced

Paul Clerkin — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:34:40 +0000

Five firms have made the shortlist for Building Design’s 2009 Young Architect of the Year award, sponsored by Autodesk. The shortlisted practices are: David Kohn Architects Duggan Morris Architects Glowacka Rennie Architects Osa/KHBT Prewett Bizley Architects The shortlisted practices will now have an opportunity to deliver a lecture at the Architecture Foundation on October 13.

Home advantage: how the famous old Arsenal stadium became a new London square.

Paul Clerkin — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:23:46 +0000

I sat high in the North Stand for one of Arsenal’s last football matches – a patrician dismissal of Everton – at its old Highbury stadium in North London. The vastly bigger and blingier new Emirates Stadium was about to open nearby. What was going to happen to the old place, I asked as we [...]

University of Greenwich appoints Heneghan Peng Architects to design campus

Paul Clerkin — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:40:11 +0000

The University of Greenwich has announced its intention to appoint award-winning Heneghan Peng Architects to design a new campus library and a home for its School of Architecture & Construction. The development will be based in Greenwich town centre, within a UNESCO World Heritage Site. A selection panel chaired by the distinguished architect Lord Rogers [...]

Steven Holl Architects wins Glasgow School of Art competition

Paul Clerkin — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:48:55 +0000

The Glasgow School of Art (GSA) is delighted to announce that Steven Holl Architects working with Scottish based JM Architects has been selected, as the result of an international competition, to lead the team to design a new building on the site opposite the world famous Mackintosh Building in Garnethill, Glasgow. Steven Holl Architects is a [...]

Belfast firm wins mag’s ‘Carbuncle Cup’

Paul Clerkin — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:10:33 +0000

Belfast-based Hamilton Architects has won Building Design magazine’s “Carbuncle Cup” for the new Ferry Terminal in Liverpool, which the adjudicators said was “like letting a bad second-year student build next to St Peter’s” Basilica in the Vatican. They concluded that the architects, who are involved in a controversial scheme to re-order the Ulster Museum in [...]

Glasgow School of Art and Historic Scotland team up to laser scan New Lanark

Paul Clerkin — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:43:22 +0000

The Scottish Culture Minister, Michael Russell, has visited New Lanark to see the digital documentation of the world heritage site taking place. A team from Historic Scotland and Glasgow School of Art began scanning the site this month as part of the Scottish Government’s project to digitally document the country’s five World Heritage Sites, and [...]

O’Donnell + Tuomey to design new £21.5 million Students’ Centre at the London School of Economics

Paul Clerkin — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:22:08 +0000

O’Donnell + Tuomey has won an international design competition for a new £21.5 million Students’ Centre at the London School of Economics. The Irish firm beat a strong shortlist in a RIBA design competition of David Chipperfield, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, de Rijke Marsh Morgan and 3XN. The [...]

How these men will honour the 7 July dead in this royal corner of London

Paul Clerkin — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:55:35 +0000

If you wanted to trace the formal history of the British public memorial from Victorian times to the present day, London’s Kensington Gardens would be a good place to start. Opposite the Royal Albert Hall stands the Albert Memorial in all its unapologetic imperial grandeur. Down by the Serpentine is the much more low-key Diana [...]

The dark knights return: four profoundly unfashionable buildings in London.

Paul Clerkin — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:51:52 +0000

Number One, Poultry, is an office and retail corner block at the heart of the City of London by James Stirling, first designed in 1985, but only completed posthumously by Michael Wilford in 1997. It is a good and interesting building, publicly permeable, multi-layered, the antidote to most commercial speculations of the time. But it [...]

RMJM’s post-modern gem facing bulldozers once more

Paul Clerkin — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:52:13 +0000

RMJM’s ‘flawed masterpiece’, the practice’s 1985 Balfour Stewart House in Edinburgh, is again under threat of demolition Last February (2008) the early Post-Modernist office block in the West Murrayfield Conservation area was saved from the bulldozers when plans to replace the empty building with 119 homes were thrown out by the city council. However the architect [...]

GM + AD bag Australian debut

Paul Clerkin — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:55:42 +0000

Glasgow-based GM + AD Architects has landed its first scheme ‘down under’ – the design of the new Glenroy Specialist School, in Melbourne The 26-classroom building in the State of Victoria will also house physiotherapy, occupational therapy and hydrotherapy spaces as well as specialist medical support areas, library, art, Music, IT, multi-sensory and multi-purpose centres. The [...]

Fake architect prosecuted – for the second time

Paul Clerkin — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:30:37 +0000

A man who falsely called himself an architect has been fined £1,500 and ordered to pay £4,500 in costs after being pleading guilty to misusing the title architect. It is the second time David Grant of east London-based Inspire Design has been successfully prosecuted for breaching Section 20 of the Architects Act, having been fined [...]

Frank Gehry’s first British building is complete. It’s not what you’d expect

Paul Clerkin — Mon, 08 Sep 2003 15:37:35 +0000

Take an average 1970s hospital in an average provincial British city: big, concrete, sprawling, impersonal, set on the edge of town. Then ask one of the world’s leading architects to add a tiny new building to the complex. Will anyone notice? They will if the architect is Frank Gehry, author of the Bilbao Guggenheim and [...]

Building a bridge over the Clyde… and into the future

Paul Clerkin — Sun, 07 Sep 2003 15:34:55 +0000

SAD, bad and dangerous to know, the River Clyde was the source of Glasgow’s Victorian prosperity. But for the last 30 years it has been a thorn in the side, constantly undermining the city’s cultural confidence. Miraculously, Clydeside’s salvation may be close at hand, because earlier this week some of Britain’s greatest architectural minds were [...]

Rogers and Foster in shortlist to build £40m Clyde bridge

Paul Clerkin — Tue, 02 Sep 2003 15:34:14 +0000

The best known architects in Britain have been shortlisted to design a new “living” bridge across the River Clyde which will cost around £40m. Practices headed by Norman Foster and Richard Rogers are among the six firms through to the final stage of the competition to create a bridge for cyclists and pedestrians which is [...]