Architecture Meets Art (AmeetsA), a charitable event created by DoubleS Events in partnership with Collective Architecture, has been launched for 2024. Set for the evening of 7 November 2024, the event, which will again be hosted by BBC presenter and antiques expert Natasha Raskin Sharp, brings arch
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National housebuilder Barratt Homes has been successful in purchasing a large new site in Livingston from Network Rail Property.
Major works upgrading part of Union Street in Aberdeen to include more pavement space and an entrance for the new market building are to start this month.
Plans for the extension and upgrade to Macduff Marine Aquarium have been unanimously approved by local councillors.
The Landscape Academy is to return to Scotland after declaring its first training courses north of the Border a huge success. Edinburgh-based St Andrews Timber & Building Supplies hosted the landmark two-day programme at its West Lothian base last week.
A theory that the Romans used a type of “self-healing” concrete which is superior to the modern building material and helped keep their monuments standing for 2,000 years has been backed up by a discovery at Pompeii.
A former Glasgow convent can be demolished to make way for a new block of apartments after councillors finally voted in favour of the planning application. Surplus Property Solutions had lodged plans in 2022 to replace the empty villa at 32 Mansionhouse Road in Langside with a five-storey developmen
Grangemouth town centre's regeneration is taking its next significant step forward as contractors started work on the part demolition of La Porte Precinct and the 'Kerse Road Block’ last week. Over 16 weeks, contractor David Morton Demolition Ltd will level the site removing this long-sta
Glasgow City Council has agreed to negotiate the disposal of the council-owned vacant land at Hecla Square in Drumchapel to allow the building of a new daycare centre.
Midlothian Council's cabinet member for education Councillor Ellen Scott visited the new Easthouses Primary School project last week to see first-hand the progress being made on construction work undertaken and to hear about the fantastic community benefits being delivered locally. The project is se
The empty Northern Hotel in Aberdeen could be given a new lease of life as student accommodation under new plans submitted to the local authority. The Art Deco landmark at the junction of Great Northern Road and Clifton Road dates back decades but closed its doors back in 2022 amid "crippling e
A project manager who oversaw the reinstatement of 22 homes ripped apart by fire damage has been crowned with a coveted construction industry award by the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB). Andrew Deacon, of Linear Design and Consult, was drafted in to help restore the apartments in Glasgow&rsq
Jenny Davies, associate director at Scottish Futures Trust, details the issues faced by key workers struggling to find affordable places to live and highlights some example solutions from around the country. Key workers are an integral part of our communities – from caring for our grandparents
A worker in a prestigious art gallery has sacked and is facing a police investigation for property damage after he secretly put one of his own paintings on public display. The Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich said the 51-year-old technical employee smuggled the 60cm x 120cm painting into the bu
The tender is live for Scotland Excel’s New Build Residential Framework – the organisation’s largest construction framework that is forecast to be worth £1.5 billion over four years. Companies can now bid to join the second generation framework that will help councils and hou


