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	IAA annnounce 2010 Design Awards Shortlist Top design projects in Highlands and Islands More than 30 architectural projects across the Highlands and Islands have been highlighted as examples of how excellent design of buildings and places can bring benefits to individuals and communities, as the Inverness Architectural Association (IAA) unveils its 2010 Design Awards shortlist. In March, the award organisers called on local architects to showcase the best of their work and around 70 award entries from across the region were received. The judges created a shortlist in four categories: new build, new life for old, place making and innovation. Entries vary in scale, purpose and budget and illustrate the diverse skills of architects in the area. They include a garden tower fit for Royalty at the Castle of Mey, a sparkling new public toilet in Golspie, one of the highest profile buildings in the region – the Highland Archive Centre - and Orkney apartments converted from a building previously used to test aircraft engines. According to IAA President Calum MacLean, the region should be celebrating success: “The Highlands and Islands, like most areas of Scotland, has a legacy of some questionable development to deal with. However, there has also been some fantastic work produced by architects here demonstrating that design has a key role to play in the success of any project and our aim is to celebrate the best of these projects." “The number of entries to the competition has fallen from previous years – reflecting the economic climate – but the quality has been extremely high. " he added. "The shortlisted projects highlight the benefits of investing in design. In challenging economic circumstances good design will add value to any project, without increasing the cost.” Members of the public will have the chance to see the shortlisted entries in their area at local exhibitions to be held between June and October, starting with a display at the Highland Archive Centre in Inverness from 10th – 25th June. The winning projects in each category will then go forward to the regional final, where winners from all areas across the Highlands and Islands will be brought together and the overall winners announced. The IAA is also inviting the public to participate in the awards by submitting nominations for the Best New Building in the Highlands and Islands. Nomination forms will be available at the exhibitions or ideas can be submitted by email to awards@highlandarchitects.org “We hope the public will come along to our exhibitions taking place over the summer”, said Callum. IAA Design Awards 2010 Full Shortlist: Central Highlands New Build Smithton Church, Inverness – Reynolds Architecture The Highland Archive Centre – LDN House at Southside Road, Inverness – Affordable TM New Life for Old House at Clachnaharry, Inverness – Reynolds Architecture Isobel Fraser Residential Home, Inverness – Thomas Munro & Co House at Millness, Strathglass – Maxwell & Co Place Making Millers Yard, Cromarty – Calum Anton Innovation House at Chanonry Point, Fortrose – Thomas Munro & Co West Highlands New Build House at Fiscavaig, Skye – Rural Design The Black Shed, Skinidin, Skye – Rural Design Raasay Hall – Dualchas Building Design Lochalsh Helath Centre – Wittets Ltd Stott House, Badralloch, Wester Ross – Neil Sutherland Architects New Life for Old Houses at Bank Street, Plockton – Rural Design House at Burnside, Elgol, Skye – Dualchas Building Design Place Making Market Street, Ullapool – Matheson Mackenzie Ross East (Moray and Nairn) New Build Seascape, Nairn – Porteous Architecture Fisher Cottage, Findhorn – Affordable TM Nairn Police Station – Colin Armstrong Associates Extension to SEN Unit, Nairn Academy – The Highland Council New Life for Old The Hirsel, Forres – LDN Architects Northern Highlands New Build The Black House, Clashnessie, Assynt – Dualchas Building Design Public Toilets, Golspie – The Highland Council Gordonbush Fishing Lodge – Neil Sutherland Architects Golspie Business Park (for Scottish Natural Heritage) – hri-architects New Life for Old Caithness Horizons Visitor Centre, Thurso – The Highland Council Creel Cottage, Littleferry – ANTA Architects Place Making Castle of Mey Garden Tower – ANTA Architects Housing development at Red Row, Staxigoe, Caithness –Thomas Munro & Co Orkney and Shetland New Build House at Balaskerry, Upper Sound, Lerwick – Redman + Sutherland Architects House at Grunnabreck, South Nesting, Shetland – Redman + Sutherland Architects New Life for Old Extension at Sandwick Junior High School, Shetland – Shetland Islands Council Anderson Buildings, Scalloway, Shetland – Redman + Sutherland Architects Hatston Apartments, Kirkwall, Orkney – Leslie Burgher Covingtree House, Kirkwall, Orkney – Leslie Burgher Place Making Harbour House, Lerwick, Shetland – Richard Gibson Architects • The IAA is a chapter of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland and covers the entire Highlands and Islands, taking in an area from Shetland to Lochaber and the Western Isles to Moray. • In 2008, Reiach and Hall's Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, was voted the Best Building in the Highlands and Islands. The Best New Building was named as Dualchas Building Design's The Shed on Skye. • The IAA Design Awards 2010 are sponsored by BRE, Cupa Natural Slate, Invisible Heating Systems and The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS), and partnered by The Highland Council and Forestry Commission Scotland. Pic: Balaskerry at Upper Sound, Lerwick, Redman + Sutherland Architects



	2010 EAA Award Winners Announced The Edinburgh Architectural Association Awards were announced and presented at a drinks reception in the Balmoral Hotel on Thursday 1st April attended by 120 architects and their guests. Over 40 entries were submitted this year and 12 short-listed projects were visited by the judging panel in February. Awards were made in three categories, Building of the Year, Conservation and Regeneration and Small Project. The judging panel comprised Robert Black, President of the Edinburgh Architectural Association, Professor Andrew MacMillan OBE, leading landscape architect Eelco Hooftman and Ian Stewart, EAA Council Member. Robert Black commented; "It is gratifying and encouraging that the profession continues to achieve such a high standard of architecture across a wide variety of building types". The Building of the Year Award, sponsored by Levolux, was won by Nicoll Russell Studios for Howden Park Centre in Livingston. The Centre is West Lothian's major arts venue for professional and community groups as well as for functions, conferences and other events. It includes a 300 seat auditorium, rehearsal space and dance studios and is the home of Firefly Youth Theatre. LDN Architects received the Conservation and Regeneration Award, sponsored by MJM Group, for 57-59 Bread Street, the conversion of a building previously used, among other things, as a print works and a gym. Nestled in the back green of the surrounding tenements, the building is designed to perform to the highest environmental standards. Allan Murray Architects was commended for its Ravelston XXIII development . The Small Projects Award, sponsored by Cairney Architectural Hardware Solutions, was made to Konishi Gaffney Architects for their Japanese House. Designed for a Scottish-Japanese family, the house incorporates several Japanese themes and provides a light-filled and comfortable family home in Portobello. WT Architecture received a commendation for their conversion of a listed mews workshop in Circus Lane to an intricate maisonette. Image - the EAA Award Winner: Howden Park Centre by Nicoll Russell Studios. Copyright: Keith Hunter.



	2010 EAA Annual Awards For Architecture The EAA Awards are designed to create a showcase for the architectural profession to demonstrate its skills and its contribution to the environment and the economy. The EAA Awards highlight the excellent work undertaken within the chapter area and by architects in general. All short-listed entries will be displayed and the winners will be announced and presented with their awards at a special event on the 11th March 2010 which will be held in The Balmoral Hotel, Edinburgh. An exhibition of all short-listed entries will also be held in the RIAS Joyce Deans Room at 15 Rutland Square. Should the judging panel decide to withhold any of the awards an announcement will be made to the short-listed practices prior to the scheduled presentation explaining the reasoning behind the decision. Image: EAA Award Winner 2009: St Pauls and St Georges Church, Edinburgh, Lee Boyd Architects. Copyright Malcolm Innes.



	Stirling Society of Architects Design Awards 2009 Results The Stirling Society of Architects has announced the winner of its inaugural design awards. The event was held in the Best Western Park Hotel, Falkirk on 22nd October 2009. Sponsored by Ibstock Brick, the award was open to all practices across Scotland and called for entries for any project completed in 2007 & 2008 in the chapter area that covered the central Scotland areas of Stirling, Falkirk and Clackmannanshire. The entries received covered a wide range of projects from practices based across the country of which a short list of 6 was drawn up. Following a day of judging by David Dunbar, president of the RIAS and celebrated architect, Professor Andy MacMillan the winning entries were selected. In the end it was Falkirk based OMI Architects’ Easter Greenrigg Steading development for local developer GRS Homes that walked away with the top S-S-A ‘Best Building’ design award 2009. Judges citations: *Easter Greenrigg Steading (Award Winner)* The judges felt that this project eschewed quality throughout, from the overall design, through attention to detail and the specification of quality finishes. The design has successfully made the most of the wonderful views to the surrounding countryside and has made the most of an existing rural building to create modern homes encompassing an awareness of three dimensional space within the public spaces. However, although the entry submission for this project was specifically for one unit, the judges unanimously felt that the development worked cohesively as a whole and that this was a key factor in the overall success of the development. The Coach House (Commendation) The judges felt that this project had been carefully considered and thoughtfully detailed. It created some much needed additional space to a family home and the use of natural light created an impression of space which belies the extensions modest size. The judges were also aware that projects of this nature are often commissioned without the services of a Chartered Architect and it was felt that this was an excellent example of the added value and excellent design which can be achieved through using a Chartered Architect. It was felt that this project was worthy of a Commendation and that it embodied many of the merits of the overall winning project albeit on a more modest scale. Image - the SSA Award Winner: Easter Greenrigg Steading, OMI Architects. Copyright OMI Architects.



	GIA Annual Design Awards 2009 - Entries now closed Entries for the GIA Design Awards 2009 have now closed. This year’s awards have seen a total of 79 entries. Awards categories: Projects were elegible to be entered under eight categories as below: • Residential • Office/Commercial + Industrial • Leisure + Retail • Healthcare • Education • Conservation • Small Works (under £250,000) • Small Practice (less than five architects) In addition to the above categories, all entries will be considered for two additional awards - The GIA Sustainability Award, and the GIA Supreme Award. Judging: The main judging panel will consist of: • Martin McKay, GIA President • Professor Gerry Grams, City Design Leader, Glasgow • Alan Hooper, Stage 3 Leader, Glasgow School of Art • Dr. Ombretta Romice, Senior Lecturer, Strathclyde University • Neil Gillespie, Reiach and Hall • James Tait • David Dunbar, RIAS President In addition, due to the large number of entries, members of the GIA Council may be seconded onto the judging panel to assist the judges. Awards dinner; The awards will be announced at the GIA Annual Members Dinner, to be held in Oran Mor, on Friday, 13th November 2009. For further details on the dinner visit the GIA website. Image - the 2008 Supreme Award Winner: The New Cancer Research Facility at the Beatson Institute, Reiach & Hall Architects. Copyright Paul Zanre Photography.



	EAA Awards 2009 Winners Announced The EAA announced the winners of the 2009 EAA Awards at the awards ceremony held in the Balmoral Hotel, Edinburgh on Wednesday 6th May 2009. Awards were presented in three categories: Small projects, Conservation & Regeneration and Building of the Year. A list of winners and commendees is listed below: *Small Project* Newhaven Road Extension, WT Architecture Conservation & Regeneration Blackburn House, Simpson & Brown Architects Commendation: Young Street Lane Offices, Malcolm Fraser Architects *Building of the year* St Paul’s and St George’s Church, Lee Boyd Commendations: Hope, Pathhead, ICOSIS Potterow Development, University of Edinburgh, Bennetts Associates The original shortlist is listed below: Building of the Year -Potterow Development, University of Edinburgh, Bennetts Associates -Quartermile, Phase 1, Foster + Partners -Hope, Pathhead, ICOSIS -St. Paul's and St. George's Church, LeeBoyd -Infirmary Street Baths, Malcolm Fraser Architects -Dawyck Botanic Garden Visitor Centre, Simpson & Brown Architects *Regeneration/Conservation Medal* -Norton House Hotel, Fletcher Joseph Architects -Young Street Lane Offices, Malcolm Fraser Architects -Lochrin Square, Michael Laird Architects -Blackburn House, Simpson & Brown Architects Small Projects Award -8b Salisbury Road, Grant Bulloch Architect -Newhaven Road Extension, WT Architecture Please contact Jackie Patterson for more information. Images: Building of the Year Shortlist as listed above.



	2008 DIA Awards Announced The Annual DIA Awards Dinner was held at the Invercarse Hotel, Dundee on Thursday 20th November 2008. SMC Parr's New Marine Operations Centre in Aberdeen received the DIA Ambassador Award with Best Public Building Being Awarded to Reiach And Hall Architects New Arts Faculty Building, St Andrews University. The full list of awards and commendations is provided below: Category 1 Best Commercial/Public Building Project New Arts Faculty Building, St Andrews University Awarded to Reiach & Hall Architects Category 1 Best Commercial/Public Building Project Library Extension, Dundee University Commendation Austin Smith Lord Architects Category 2 Best Housing Project Project Social Housing, Charleston Awarded to Wellwood Leslie Architects Category 2 Best Housing Project Project Panmure Slip, City Quay Commendation Richie Dagen & Allan Architects / Simpson & Brown Architects Category 3 Best Private House Project Rock House, Acharn Awarded to Casa Architects Category 4 Best Interior Design Project Project The Playwright, Tay Square, Dundee Commendation Nicoll Russell Studios Category 5 Best Example of Environmental Improvement/Conservation Project Webster Theatre, Arbroath Awarded to Angus Council Property Division Category 5 Best Example of Environmental Improvement/Conservation Project Museum of University of St Andrews Commendation Jack Fisher Partnership Category 6 DIA Regeneration Award Project Harbor Visitor Centre, Arbroath Awarded to Baxter, Clark & Paul Category 6 DIA Regeneration Award Project Wasps Artists Studio, Newburgh Awarded to Nicoll Russell Studios Category 7 Best Commercial / Private Client Project Various Projects Awarded to Nicoll Russell Studios Category 8 DIA Ambassador Award Project New Marine Operations Centre, Aberdeen Awarded to SMC Parr Category 8 DIA Ambassador Award Project An Lanntair Arts Centre Commendation Nicoll Russell Studios Category 8 DIA Ambassador Award Project Anchor Mills, Paisley Commendation James F Stephen Architects Category 9 Best Small Project Project The Boathouse, Loch Tay Awarded to Mckenzie Strickland Architects Category 9 Best Small Project Project House Extension, Montrose Awarded to Nicoll Russell Studios Image: New Arts Faculty Building, St Andrews University - Reiach and Hall Architects.



	GIA Design Awards 2008 Announced The New Cancer Research Facility at the Beatson Institute, Glasgow, designed by Reiach and Hall Architects, has won the Glasgow Institute of Architects (GIA) Supreme Award 2008. The award was presented to the winning architects at the GIA Annual Dinner at Òran Mór, Glasgow on Friday 14 November. Fifty-four building projects from across the country were submitted to the GIA Awards, for which a total of 15 awards and commendations were made. Professor Gerry Grams, Glasgow City Design Advisor and Judging panel chair said: “The building positively oozes ‘cool’ from the outside, and demands that you touch it inside – it is a ‘tour-de-force of skilful transparency allowing light deep into the plan. The judges congratulate the architects and their client in creating an ambitious and exacting work of beauty, which surely is now a benchmark building for others to follow”. The client’s brief for the Beatson Cancer Facility was to create a world-class research environment, and notwithstanding some difficulties during the build, the architects have delivered a stunning building which is deceptively simplistic but technically highly complex. The new building accommodates seminar rooms, a lecture theatre, social areas and laboratories with supports spaces for 250 staff. It floats within a walled garden surrounded by the mature grounds of the Garscube Estate on the outskirts of Glasgow. Neil Gillespie, Design Director at Reiach and Hall Architects, said: "We are absolutely delighted to win the Best Healthcare Building Award and the Supreme Award for our Beatson Cancer Research Facility from the Glasgow Institute of Architects. The Beatson, brilliantly lead by Professor Karen Vousden, is a fundamentally important Institution. It is a privilege to be associated with the shear ambition and quality of the research contained within this building." GIA President, Martin McKay said: “The judges were extremely impressed by the quality of projects submitted by practices. Innovation, exciting design and attention to detail is in great abundance, proving that contemporary architectural design can be a real beacon of light in these difficult times. As well as recognising the brilliant achievement by Reiach and Hall Architects in designing the world-class new Cancer Research Facility, the judges were also delighted to give this year’s Sustainability Award to Page\Park Architects for their superb refurbishment and extension of the Eden Court Theatre in Inverness”. A full list of Awards and Commendations is provided below. GIA Annual Design Awards and Commendations 2008 GIA Supreme Award 2008 New Cancer Research Facility, Beatson Institute, Glasgow Architect: Reiach and Hall Architects Sustainability Award Eden Court Theatre, Inverness Architect: Page\Park Architects Residential Category Award Tigh na Dobhran, Arduaine Architect: Studio Kap Commendations 1967-1969 Dumbarton Road, Glasgow Architect: Page\Park Architects Cumbernauld Road, Glasgow Architects: jmarchitects Office/Commercial/Industrial Category Award Andrew Carnegie House, Dunfermline Architect: Page\Park Architects Commendation South Dennistoun Neighbourhood Centre, Glasgow Architect: jmarchitects Conservation Category Award Garrison House & Grounds, Millport Architect: Lee Boyd Commendations Gourock Ropeworks Architect: Coltart Earley Architecture GSA Conservation and Access Project, Glasgow Architect: ZM Architecture Leisure / Retail Culloden Battlefield Visitors Centre, Inverness Architect: Gareth Hoskins Architects Eden Court Theatre, Inverness Architect: Page\Park Architects Healthcare Category New Cancer Research Facility, Beatson Institute, Glasgow Architect: Reiach and Hall Architects Education Category Niddrie Mills & St Francis Primary Schools, Edinburgh Architect: Elder and Cannon Architects Jordanhill School, Glasgow Architect: Elder and Cannon Architects Commendation Sir Alwyn Williams Departmental Computer Science Building, Glasgow Architect: Reiach and Hall Architects For more information visit www.glasgowinstituteofarchitects.com Image: The New Cancer Research Facility at the Beatson Institute, Reiach & Hall Architects. Copyright Paul Zanre Photography.



	2008 Inverness Architectural Association Awards announced The IAA announced the winners of their 2008 Awards at a ceremony held at the Eden Court Theatre on 14 November. Reiach and Hall's Pier Arts Centre was awarded the Best Building in the Highlands and Islands with Best New Building going to Dulachas Building Design's The Shed on Skye. The full list of winners and Comendees are listed below: Best Building in Highlands and Islands: Pier Arts Centre- Stromness, Reiach & Hall Architects. Commendation: Strathnairn Forest Shelter (Neil Sutherland Architects). Commendation: Eden Court Theatre Extension/Redevelopment, (Page/Park Architects). Best Use of Timber: Strathnairn Forest Shelter (Neil Sutherland Architects). Commendation: Forestry Commission Local HQ, Smithton, Culloden (HRI Architects) Best New Building: The Shed - Tokavaig, Skye (Dualchas Building Design). Commendation: House at West Shore, Walls, Shetland Islands (Richard Gibson Architects) Best New life for old: An Gearasdan- Glenelg, Lochalsh (Dualchas Building Design)Commendation: Black Sheep House, Strond, Eilean Na Hearadh (Stuart Bagshaw Associates) Best Place Making: Edinbane Sustainable Housing, Edinbane, Skye (Rural Design) Lost Opportunities: Cragol Birdhide, Luskentyre (Stuart Bagshaw Association) Commendation: Centre for Energy and the Environment, Thurso, (HRI Architects) Full shortlist and details are available on the IAA website www.highlandarchitects.org Image: The Shed, Skye by Dualchas Building Design. Copyright Andrew Lee Photography