Category: ARCHITECTURE: Regeneration

Although still a thoroughfare for industry – approximately 30,000 tonnes of timber pass through the harbour annually from the mid-argyll forests – the village of Ardrishaig at the eastern end of the Crinan Canal has suffered an economic decline since its heyday as a bustling harbour for both passenger and freight traffic. Several proposals emerged from a series of community design workshops in 2016 at which the local appetite for regeneration of the area was made clear, and these have […]

Design: Malcolm Fraser Architects; Delivery: Halliday Fraser Munro; Entered by Fraser/Livingstone Architects. Ground-breaking community-led development: a historic farmhouse rebuilt with café, training kitchens and meeting rooms.  Adjacent a new timber shed contains workshops, which enclose a working yard to the front and a productive garden behind.  Scotland is making bold strides towards Community Empowerment with the eponymous Bill setting out new powers. In advance of these coming into place Bridgend pioneered the new thinking to acquire, repair and develop a […]

King’s Stables Road is the comprehensive redevelopment of the former Council Cleaning and Street Lighting Depo and an adjacent nightclub has wholly redefined a forgotten corner into a vibrant and culturally significant quarter of Scotland’s capital. Key to achieving social and economic value was the delivery of a mix of uses that combined in synthesis to transform a location previously chosen as a backdrop to cult films such as Trainspotting into a thriving neighbourhood better suited to its setting within […]