Category: Residential

Athron Hill is an ambitious new housing development constructed on a brown-field site in the foothills of the Ochil’s, snuggled into a sheltering woodland and afforded majestic views over Loch Leven, the Lomond Hills and the Pentlands to the south. This unique setting was once home to a tuberculosis sanatorium, which took advantage of the fresh air and sunshine found on the hills. It had stood empty since the late 1980’s and was demolished back in 2003. Historic clachans and […]

Caochan na Creige is a handmade house in the Outer Hebrides and it is the first new build home by emerging practice, Izat Arundell. The name means ‘little hidden one by the rock’ as the sculptural form is designed around a substantial Lewisian Gneiss rock that dominates the site. Internally, the living spaces wrap around this natural feature which creates a soft 135-degree angle. This angle is used throughout the design and demonstrates the strength of site-specific architecture. Designed by […]

Designed for a retired couple relocating from Edinburgh to the Solway Coast, Tidal House is an understated, contemporary home organised over two floors with Larch cladding punctuated by expansive glazing, and solid elements to the North in smoked clay brick. The house sits on the edge of the tidal estuary of the River Urr, with far-reaching views to the sea beyond.

Taking a walk around the gentle curve of Edinburgh’s famously picturesque Circus Lane, the clocktower of St Stephen’s Church looms overhead and draws you towards the eastern end of the Lane, as one of the New Town’s latest additions comes into view.Designed as a two-storey extension to an existing traditional mews property, the new building is a full stop to the row of houses on the north side of the Lane. Occupying a site formerly used as garages, the next-door […]

11 to 22 Park Quadrant is a new build 6-storey residential development set within the heart of the West End of Glasgow, consisting of a varied mix of 98 luxury apartments and duplexes, topped with a series of dramatic penthouses apartments commanding views over the city and beyond to the north. The development completes the architecturally expressive outer ring of Charles Wilson’s original 1850’s Park Area masterplan, overlooking Kelvingrove Park, after the site had remained undeveloped, and the masterplan incomplete, […]

St Andrew’s Drive Phases 2 & 3 provides 120 new homes for our Client, Southside Housing Association, replacing a 6 storey 1960’s deck access slab block. The site sits on the edge of the historic Pollokshields area of Glasgow which is predominantly comprised of large sandstone villas set on treelined streets. New streets have been formed with sustainable urban drainage in the form of kerbside rain gardens. Off-street parking is provided in small groups removing the feeling of a car […]

Boxwood is a new 200m2 lifetime house for Susan and John Shearer, replacing their small holiday home in Cairngorms National Park. The couple bought the former one bedroom, tinned roof estate worker’s cottage in 1992, and felt that its location was ideal for the eventual new home they wanted to build. Taking inspiration from the design of Gokay Deveci’s timber and curved copper roofed house on stilts for Lotte Glob in Loch Eriboll, the couple worked with Deveci on a […]