Citizens’ Theatre Redevelopment Glasgow

Site: 19th Century Gorbals tenements were cleared in the 1960-70’s and their replacement tower blocks (the Dampies) demolished by 1922 to be replaced by medium rise brick built homes. The site faces west to Gorbals Street and contains one of the two surviving listed buildings in the immediate area. To the North are modern yellow […]

Papple Steading Phase One

Scotland’s national architecture awards RIAS Awards Winner 2023 A separate block south of the main Papple Steading, originally Grieve’s Cottage, implement Shed and stores. Re-designed as visitor accommodation for the future Agricultural Heritage Centre. DESCRIPTION: Site: Located in the open arable landscape south of Haddington the steading is one of Scotland’s finest groups of farm […]

Murthly Signal Box

A redundant two storey timber signal box, beside the former Highland Railway. DESCRIPTION: Site: Murthly Station, Murthly Building Form: Elaborate two storey McKenzie and Holland Signal Box, circa 1898 relocated from Inverness in 1919. Stripped of mechanical control gear by Network Rail in the 1970’s and boarded up, this is a rare survivor of a […]

Scotsman Steps

Conservation of stonework and design improvements to an important Public route   CONSULTANCY ROLE IPA was involved in the conservation project as consultant, Accredited Conservation Architect, to principal Architect, MacGregor Bowes  url: www.mcgregorbowes.com SCHEME DESCRIPTION The Scotsman Steps were built between 1899 and 1902 (architects James Dunn and James Finlay) as part of the construction […]

St Peters, Falcon Road

New Wheelchair Accessible WC in Category “A” Listed Church DESCRIPTION The Church occupies an urban corner site,  the Italianate design is by Sir Robert Lorimer and the nave was built 1906-7, construction was completed by Architects Lorimer and Matthew in 1927-29.  The former Baptistery was a separate space for baptism, a practice abandoned by the Second […]

Phantassie Steading

Conservation and redevelopment of a major steading as a heritage and retail centre DESCRIPTION The site is 26 miles South East of Edinburgh on the Eastern boundary of the conservation area of East Linton.  Access is from the A1, Scotland’s main arterial road to the south, by junctions at Haddington and Dunbar. The imposing neo-classical steading, built […]

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