Features & Reports

As both director of a private house building company and Vice Chairman for Homes for Scotland, Andrew Mickel lives and breathes housing and planning. Homes for Scotland (HFS) is the house builders’ umbrella organisation. Its members are responsible for about 95 per cent...

A seminal name from the 1960s and 70s, the office of Peter Ahrends, Richard Burton and Paul Koralek – ABK as otherwise known – has a long and distinguished track record in the design of education buildings, most notably at Dublin’s Trinity College and more...

Today Cardross Seminary is probably the most celebrated post-war building in Scotland – at least among architects! It’s famous not just for the poetic qualities of its architecture, but also for its tragic story – a...

GKC – the Holy Family

It’s all too easy to see how today’s market-driven Iconic Modernism acts as a cancer within contemporary architecture, corrupting every building type and architect into an...

The period covered by the Gillespie Kidd and Coia  retrospective (1956-1986) is a fascinating one. It spans from the optimism of post-war expansion through the 1973 oil crisis and on to the early stages of the dismantling of the welfare state. This social and historical...

North Lanarkshire Council and local newspaper the Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser declined to accept the award, as Cumbernauld and Airdrie had in previous years, so this year, local woman Jeanette Hart was gifted the plinth by Prospect editor Penny Lewis. When told the...

The Carbuncle awards were established in 2001 following a discussion about why policy initiatives to improve the quality of the built environment seem to be having so little impact beyond the centres of Scotland’s key cities.

The Carbuncles are an antidote...

It has been another very busy year for the construction industry in Scotland. Despite the new political landscape, the SNP government’s scrutiny of some infrastructure and public projects, the new planning committee in Edinburgh and the general slowdown in the...

The event, named City 24, was conceived by Willie Hanlon, a senior architect at Glasgow City Council to coincide with the Radiance lighting festival in November.

The purpose of the event was to discuss the city’s lighting strategy and how it might be...