Infrastructure, Urban Design and Landscape

Austin Smith Lord were commissioned to undertake an urban design study for the revitalisation of Bridgeton Cross in Glasgow’s East End.

The study involves the development of a vision for Bridgeton which will deliver physical, social and economic regeneration within the wider Clyde Gateway initiatives.

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The Garden for a Plant Collector pays tribute to an eccentric collector, obsessed with collecting ferns and carnivorous plants, and, in particular, keen to understand the relationship between colour and growth. This horticultural extravaganza is cultivated in a minimalist glasshouse, designed of layers of high performance luminous glass.

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Introduction
Ibrox Backcourts Regeneration project is the result of close co-operation between Govan Housing Association Ltd, Sinclair architects, City Design Co-operative and, fundamentally, the input of the local community to improve the use of their private communal spaces –the backcourts- and encourage sense of...

The stated aim of the brief was to design a shelter for smokers who work in the Oxford House office block. British American Tobacco’s main proviso was that it had to be sited prominently to provide a point of visual interest and allow those employees who smoke, a measure of dignity. Finally the new structure should avoid “looking...

Completed in June 2007, the Infrastructure and Public Realm works on the 16 acre site at Queens Quay in Clydebank is the implemented first phase of the 2004 Page\Park Master Plan for the redevelopment and regeneration of the 80 acre site in Clydebank formally occupied by John Brown Shipyards.

QUEENS QUAY
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