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Blog: Alhambra Theatre, Dunfermline
Architect: John Fraser
Year Completed: 1922
Many times when we talk about architecture we think only of new buildings, where the architect’s job is to think and design from scratch how these new spaces will look and feel.
This idea is not far from reality but it is also the work of architects […]
Blog: Ayr Grammar Primary School
Architect: BDP
Completed: 2021This project is about re-use and a re-imagination of historic education buildings as a new facility for teaching, learning and community spaces. It cleverly integrates new additions with the refurbishment of the listed buildings.
An unexpected element of the project is a large archive facility, space created […]
Blog: What’s it called? … Cumbernauld.
Architect: Geoffrey Copcutt
Completed: 1963
What’s it called?… Cumbernauld.
A slogan from a 1980s advert to promote the new town of Cumbernauld and encourage families to relocate there, to alleviate Glasgow’s housing problem.
This Blog will explore how “Britain’s most hated building”, The Cumbernauld town centre, represents an idea and concept of […]
Blog: The Murphy House | Edinburgh
Client/ Architect: Richard Murphy
Completed: 2016
The Murphy house is the 2016 RIBA award winner. It is a clever and whimsical design that stitches together two developments in Edinburgh’s New Town, successfully terminating a complex junction whilst addressing the hill topography.
The house occupies half the existing garden and must create […]
Blog: Office Culture.
Office Culture: My First 6 Months at RKA
Having recently completed my first 6 months at RKA I wanted to write about the social and cultural aspects of working in an architectural design studio. I was offered a job as a Part 2 Architectural Assistant in April […]
Blog: St. Paul’s | Glenrothes
Architect: Gillespie, Kidd and Coia
Completed: 1957
One of the first churches in Scotland to break away from the traditional aspects of church architecture and propose this new modern take on the typology, St Pauls was also the first church designed by both Izi Metzstein and Andy Macmillan for the […]
