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Pupils of Sidlaw View Primary and Jessie Porter Nursery in Dundee have celebrated the official opening of their new £8.1 million building. Procured through Scape Group’s National Major Works framework, the work was carried out by Robertson Tayside, with the new school building forming part of a l

A national competition has been launched for designers to develop a new architectural vision for Dumfries town centre. The Midsteeple Quarter Ideas Competition, produced in partnership between the community-led Stove Network with the Glasgow Institute of Architects, invites architectural concepts fo

hub South West has handed over a purpose built community leisure centre to South Carrick Community Leisure (SCCL) in Girvan. The Quay Zone, a £5.4 million sports and leisure facility looking out over the much-loved Girvan seafront, was completed ahead of schedule, and is to be operated by SCCL on b

Taylor Wimpey invests in employees with production diploma Housebuilder Taylor Wimpey is helping its production staff across the UK to further their careers thanks to a new training programme.

A Dundee architects’ studio is designing a multi-million pound leisure complex overlooking a Perthshire loch. After a focused effort, the Andrew Black Design team managed to successfully navigate their way through strict planning policy within Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park to gain pl

Home Group has appointed 14 architects to a £27 million framework to support plans to build 10,000 new homes of all tenures during the next five years. The appointments will see the affordable housing developer work with some of the most highly renowned and decorated architecture practices in the U

Glasgow’s St Enoch in £1.5m revamp

A New York City-based design firm has floated a mind-bending plan for the erection of a skyscraper which will be suspended from an asteroid. Dubbed Analemma, "the world's tallest building ever" will hang in the air by cables from an asteroid repositioned into geosynchronous Earth orbit just for the

The completion of the new Queensferry Crossing over the Firth of Forth has been pushed back to the summer due to adverse weather conditions. The £1.35 billion bridge was originally meant to open in December 2016 but was postponed until May this year after bad weather delayed work.

A 19th-century mill in Dundee is set to be transformed into one of Britain’s largest creative spaces under an £18 million blueprint for the building. Originally constructed as Dundee’s first fireproof mill in 1806, West Ward Works was bought by DC Thomson, the publisher behind children’s comi

Plans for a new heritage centre for the Braemar Highland Games have been submitted to Aberdeenshire Council. Braemar Royal Highland Charity said the key attraction of its proposals will be the main exhibition hall, supported by a cafe, gift shop and multi-function gallery.

Crosslane Student Developments celebrated the topping out of The Old Printworks development in Edinburgh yesterday with the news that the project will open in time for the 2017/2018 academic year. Work at the Bernard Terrace site commenced in January 2016 to develop a new, purpose-built, high specif

Artist's impressions released of new Inverness prison The Scottish Prison Service (SPS) has unveiled redesigned plans for a proposed new £66 million jail in Inverness.

Scotland’s land, property and construction sectors must collaborate more effectively to help end rising homelessness and deliver more affordable homes, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has said today. The professional body is asking those who work in the industry to pledge their

As skyscrapers soar to new heights, a New York architecture firm is taking a different approach, proposing a U-shaped tower that would smash records as the longest building in the world. The Independent reports that designs for the “Big Bend” show a 4,000 ft long, arched skyscraper that would to