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RIAS Andrew Doolan Best Building In Scotland Award
All types of architectural projects in Scotland are eligible, including new-build, regeneration, restoration, extensions and interiors. List of winners and nominees 2022 Shortlist * Forth Valley College – Falkirk Campus, Falkirk by Reiach and Hall Architects * High Sunderland, Galashiels by Loader Monteith * Jedburgh Grammar Campus, Jedburgh by Stallan-Brand Architecture + Design * Lockerbie Sawmill, Lockerbie by Konishi Gaffney * Quarry Studios, Aberdeenshire by Moxon Architects 2021 Winner * Aberdeen Art Gallery - Hoskins Architects Shortlist * Bayes Centre, Edinburgh by Bennetts Associates * The Egg Shed, Ardrishaig by Oliver Chapman Architects * The Hill House Box, Helensburgh by Carmody Groarke * sportscotland National Sports Training Centre Inverclyde by Reiach and Hall Architects 2019 *Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners: The Macallan Distillery and Visitor Experience 2018 *Reiach & Hall Architects: Nucleus, The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and Cai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forth Valley College
Forth Valley College is a college of further education located in Scotland. The college was established in 2005 from the merger of Falkirk College and Clackmannan College.Forth Valley College - College Review - 25 May 2012 , 25 May 2012. Education Scotland. Retrieved 11 July 2012. It currently operates from three main campuses in , and . The college previously operated within a community campus in the |
Battle Of Culloden
The Battle of Culloden (; gd, Blàr Chùil Lodair) was the final confrontation of the Jacobite rising of 1745. On 16 April 1746, the Jacobite army of Charles Edward Stuart was decisively defeated by a British government force under Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, on Drummossie Moor near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. It was the last pitched battle fought on British soil. Charles was the eldest son of James Stuart, the exiled Stuart claimant to the British throne. Believing there was support for a Stuart restoration in both Scotland and England, he landed in Scotland in July 1745: raising an army of Scots Jacobite supporters, he took Edinburgh by September, and defeated a British government force at Prestonpans. The government recalled 12,000 troops from the Continent to deal with the rising: a Jacobite invasion of England reached as far as Derby before turning back, having attracted relatively few English recruits. The Jacobites, with limited French mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gareth Hoskins
Gareth Dale Hoskins OBE (15 April 1967 – 9 January 2016) was a Scottish architect. Biography Born in Edinburgh on 15 April 1967, Hoskins attended George Watson’s College and the Mackintosh School of Architecture at the Glasgow School of Art. He joined Penoyre & Prasad in 1992 before starting his own firm in 1998. In 2000, ''Building Design'' gave Hoskins its Young Architect of the Year Award. In 2005 he was appointed to the Board of Architecture + Design Scotland where he served as Scottish Healthcare Design Champion for 4 years from 2006. He was named UK Architect of the Year in 2006 and Scottish Architect of the Year three years later. In 2010, he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to architecture. Personal Hoskins was married, had two children and lived in Helensburgh. He had a heart attack on 3 January 2016 while taking part in a fencing competition, and died six days later at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Shortly after his death Argyl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glasgow
Glasgow ( ; sco, Glesca or ; gd, Glaschu ) is the most populous city in Scotland and the fourth-most populous city in the United Kingdom, as well as being the 27th largest city by population in Europe. In 2020, it had an estimated population of 635,640. Straddling the border between historic Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire, the city now forms the Glasgow City Council area, one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, and is governed by Glasgow City Council. It is situated on the River Clyde in the country's West Central Lowlands. Glasgow has the largest economy in Scotland and the third-highest GDP per capita of any city in the UK. Glasgow's major cultural institutions – the Burrell Collection, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Scottish Ballet and Scottish Opera – enjoy international reputations. The city was the European Capital of Culture in 1990 and is notable for its architecture, cult ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castlemilk House
Castlemilk House was a country house located in what is now the Castlemilk district of Glasgow, Scotland. The house was the ancestral home of the Stirling-Stuart family and was built around the 15th-century Cassiltoun Tower during the 18th and 19th centuries. The house and Castlemilk Estate were purchased by Glasgow Corporation in 1938, with the house serving as a children's home until it was closed in 1969 and demolished that year. History The lands of Cassiltoun of Carmunnock, located on high ground south of Glasgow between the hills of the Cathkin Braes and the burgh of Rutherglen near the River Clyde, were acquired by the Stuarts of Castlemilk in Dumfriesshire (an estate near Lockerbie which still exists also featuring a grand mansion) in the 13th century. In the 16th century, they renamed the Cassiltoun estate Castlemilk.History Cassiltoun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elder & Cannon
An elder is someone with a degree of seniority or authority. Elder or elders may refer to: Positions Administrative * Elder (administrative title), a position of authority Cultural * North American Indigenous elder, a person who has and transmits cultural and philosophical knowledge * Australian Aboriginal elder, one who has gained recognition as a custodian of knowledge and lore, often a leader in administrative matters Religious * "The elder", author of the Johannine epistles 2 John and 3 John in the New Testament * Elder (Christianity), a person valued for their wisdom and, in some churches and denominations, holding an administrative or oversight role ** Elder (Methodist), an ordained minister with responsibilities to preach and teach ** Elder (Anglican), a learned minister with responsibilities to teach and/or innovate ** Elder (Latter Day Saints), a priesthood office in the Melchizedek priesthood * Thero or Elder, an honorific term for senior Buddhist nuns and mon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Informatics Forum
The Informatics Forum is a major building on the Central Area campus of the University of Edinburgh. Completed in 2008, it houses the research institutes of the university's School of Informatics. Design The Forum is designed by Bennetts Associates with Reiach and Hall, architects, and Buro Happold, engineers. The architects' brief was to provide a "forum for interaction" that will foster synergies among the 500 researchers in Informatics: Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, and Systems Biology, who have been brought together, under one roof, by this development. The building was the first in Scotland to achieve a BREEAM rating of "excellent", and was constructed by Balfour Beatty. History One of the major recommendations of the 1997 international review that led to the formation of Informatics as an academic grouping at Edinburgh, was that the university should provide a building for the collocation of Informatics. An options appraisal recommend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bennetts Associates
Bennetts is a specialist insurance broker for motorcycles headquartered in Peterborough, with a contact centre in Coventry, England, owned by Saga plc. On 17 February 2020 it was announced that The Ardonagh Group had agreed to purchase Bennetts from Saga for £26 million. History Bennetts was founded by Frederick J Bennett in 1930 in Coventry and initially provided general insurance services for customers in the West Midlands. By the early 1980s it focussed solely on providing insurance to motorcyclists. But in the autumn of 2022, the company began offering car insurance, too. In 2000, Bennetts launched a quote and buy on-line facility. It was acquired by the BGL Group in 2001. In 2011 the company launched commercial portal dedicated to motorcycling, followed in 2012 by a social networking group, Bike Social. On 28 January 2015, it was announced that Saga Group was to purchase Bennetts from BGL Group for a reported £26.26m, completed on 1 July 2015. On 1 December 2019, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allan Murray Architects
AMA Studio (formerly Allan Murray Architects) is an Edinburgh, Scotland based practice of award-winning Architects and Urbanists. Formed in , it has a substantial body of work in the Scottish capital. In recent years the modern nature of some of its designs has attracted criticism since it is not perceived to "fit" with Edinburgh's current architecture. Some commentators, including Magnus Linklater have even questioned whether too many buildings in Edinburgh have been designed by the firm. In 2010 the Hotel Missoni in Edinburgh (now the Radisson Collection Hotel, Royal Mile Edinburgh) designed by the firm was awarded a Special Award for Scotland by the Civic Trust Awards. Hotel Missoni also won an RIBA Award in 2010. In April 2020, the company became an employee owned trust. Awards British Construction Industry Awards The British Construction Industry Awards (BCI Awards or BCIA) were launched by ''New Civil Engineer'' magazine and Thomas Telford Ltd in 1998, at the time both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linlithgow Burgh Halls
Linlithgow Burgh Halls is a municipal structure at The Cross, Linlithgow, Scotland. The complex includes the Town House, the former headquarters of Linlithgow Burgh Council, which is a Category A listed building. and the Old County Hall, the former headquarters of West Lothian County Council, which is a Category B listed building. History The first municipal building in the town was a medieval tolbooth with a large bell tower: it was demolished on the orders of the Lord Protector, Oliver Cromwell, to provide improved access to Linlithgow Palace, in 1650. Following the Stuart Restoration, burgh leaders decided to commission a new town house: the new building was designed by John Smith in the neoclassical style, built by Robert Mylne in ashlar stone and was completed in late 1670. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with seven bays facing onto The Cross; the central bay featured a square headed doorway on the first floor which was originally accessed by a single fligh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Scotsman Steps
''The Scotsman Steps'' (also known as ''Work No. 1059'') is a permanent installation by British artist Martin Creed in Edinburgh, Scotland. History The Scotsman Steps were built between 1899 and 1902 by architects Dunn & Findlay as part of the construction of the building housing ''The Scotsman'' newspaper and, since 2001, The Scotsman Hotel. The steps were built in a French style as a spiral staircase within an enclosed octagonal tower; the tower was decorated with wrought iron grilles and glazed tiles in the interior. Historically considered a road, the 104 steps form a pedestrian link between the North Bridge and Waverley Station's Market Street entrance. The construction of the Scotsman building at the turn of the 20th century was part of a regeneration of the surrounding North Bridge area; the Scotsman building and Steps formed a turreted 'gateway' between the Edinburgh New Town and Old Town. The steps were Category A listed in 1974 and form part of the Edinburgh Old Tow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
