Category: ARCHITECTURE: Regeneration

Prestonpans Civic Square is the principal public space in the East Lothian coastal town. The regeneration of the square was driven by Prestonpans Community Council in partnership with East Lothian Council and the Preston Seton Gosford Area Partnership. The square had become tired, was a magnet for anti-social behaviour and did not provide an appropriate setting for the Category B Listed war memorial designed in 1922 by William Birnie Rhind (RSA). The design brief required: removal of an elevated viewing […]

Queens Quay is the first residential phase of an ambitious programme to revitalise longstanding derelict land in Clydebank. The site was formerly occupied by the John Brown’s shipyard, an important piece of Scotland’s industrial heritage where some of Clydeside’s most famous ships were built including the Queen Mary and QE2. This initial phase occupies two neighbouring sites along the northern boundary facing Glasgow Road, a primary route between Clydebank and Glasgow. The development’s prominent location and its wider role as […]

Greyhope Bay Centre. “Dolphins at the Battery”,Greyhope Bay Centre is a charitable organisation with an ambition to develop a world-class visitor Centre that connects people with Aberdeen’s dynamic marine environment. The first phase of the project, ‘Dolphins at the Battery’, has successfully created a hub for visitors to experience Aberdeen’s coastline and the region’s charismatic bottlenose dolphins which are permanently based in the harbour area. The centre is based in Torry, an Aberdeen community build around an old fishing village, […]

The Cromdale Square development involves the regeneration of the former Drumoyne Primary School to provide 49 much needed new family homes for social rent. The local importance of the B-Listed building and a focus on preserving local architectural heritage meant that an extensive period of consultation took place during the design process to establish how the building could be retained through either full conversion or partial retention. The latter was chosen due to the extent of the building’s impairment; the […]

The new Winchburgh and Sinclair Academies, the Sport and Well Being Hub and Holy Family Primary School form a critical component of the Winchburgh regeneration project providing key public infrastructure to support the successful transformation of the former shale mining village into a significant thriving community with placemaking at the heart of the development. Bounded to the north and west by the new Auldcathie Park, which innovatively reinstated an abandoned landfill site to create a new 85acre district park, the […]