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The new home for the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in Glasgow

Revealed: new home for Royal Scottish National Orchestra

7-Feb-2012 | By Richard Waite

The Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO) has revealed of plans to move to a new £14million home next to Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

The Mareel Arts Centre in Lerwick by Gareth Hoskins Architects

Hoskins' Shetland showstopper delayed again

31-Jan-2012 | By Richard Waite

The opening of Gareth Hoskins Architects’ long-running waterfront cinema and music venue in Lerwick, Shetland has been put back again

Mecanoo's proposals to merge the Cornerhouse and Library Theatre Company at First Street Manchester

Ian Simpson and Mecanoo reveal First Street plans

27-Jan-2012 | By Richard Waite

These are the first images of Mecanoo’s proposed joint new home in Manchester city centre for The Cornerhouse cinema and the Library Theatre Company

Stanton Williams' joint first place scheme in the competition for the Museum of Concrete Art and Design in Ingolstadt, South Germany

Stanton Williams named joint winner in Museum of Concrete Art contest

27-Jan-2012 | By Richard Waite

Stanton Williams has come joint first in the high-profile, international contest to create a new home for the Museum of Concrete Art and Design in Ingolstadt, southern Germany

Kengo Kuma's design for a new £45 million outpost for the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in Dundee (drawings stage D)

New images: funding windfall for Kengo Kuma's Dundee V&A

26-Jan-2012 | By Richard Waite

The Scottish government has pledged an extra £1.75 million towards Kengo Kuma and Associates’ proposed new £45 million outpost for the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in Dundee

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Pawson reveals £80m Commonwealth Institute rebirth

24-Jan-2012 | By Richard Waite

John Pawson has revealed these images of his proposed conversion of the Grade II* listed Commonwealth Institute (CI) building, west London, into the new home for the Design Museum

Palestinian Museum proposals by Heneghan Peng (Ireland)

AJ exclusive: Heneghan Peng wins Palestinian Museum contest

23-Dec-2011 | By Liam O'Connor

The AJ can reveal that Heneghan Peng has been appointed to design the Palestinian Museum, near Ramallah on the West Bank

White Cube Bermondsey, London, by Casper Mueller Kneer Architects

White Cube Bermondsey, London, by Casper Mueller Kneer Architects

8-Dec-2011 | By James Pallister

A nine-by-nine top-lit ‘cube’ sits within Casper Mueller Kneer’s vast warehouse conversion for super-gallery White Cube, writes James Pallister. Photography by Paul Riddle and Ben Westoby

Library, University of Aberdeen, by Schmidt Hammer Lassen

Library, University of Aberdeen, by Schmidt Hammer Lassen

8-Dec-2011 | By Alan Dunlop

Schmidt Hammer Lassen’s zebra-skinned library brings the University of Aberdeen into its sixth century with a flourish, writes Alan Dunlop. Photography by Adam Mork

Wilkinson Eyre's Sea City Museum, Southampton (November 2011)

Wilkinson Eyre's Sea City Museum nears completion

8-Dec-2011 | By Simon Hogg

These are the latest shots of Wilkinson Eyre’s £28million Sea City Museum in Southampton