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62,500 Scottish construction jobs lost over five years
The Scottish construction industry has lost more than a quarter of its workforce since 2008, according to new figures
Police to probe Glasgow leader’s role in George Square fiasco
Scotland’s Major Crimes Unit is to investigate Glasgow City Council leader Gordon Matheson over alleged misconduct during the £100,000 contest to redesign George Square
Shareholders lose all in RMJM sell-off
Once worth millions, shares in RMJM have become worthless following the sale of the RMJM Architecture group to the Fraser Morrison-owned Duthus Investments
![WINNER: Reiach & Hall and Michael Laird Architects' competition-winning scheme for the City of Glasgow College [Glasgow Learning Quarter - a consortium led by Sir Robert McAlpine]. Cathedral Street view](/pictures/81xAny/0/7/9/1327079_CITY_OF_GLASGOW_COLLEGE_GLQ_City_Cathedral_Streer_view.jpg)
Reiach & Hall and Michael Laird win go-ahead for Glasgow supercampus
Reiach & Hall and Michael Laird Architects have won planning permission for their competition-winning scheme to create a new super-campus for the City of Glasgow College
New practices: Edo Architecture
The latest in a series of practice profiles looking at architects who have recently decided to go it alone either through choice or redundancy
Buildings
Ramp house: Architects build wheelchair-friendly family home
Architect couple build new home around needs of their eight-year-old wheelchair-using daughter
Sheppard Robson finishes Strathclyde uni refurb
[FIRST LOOK + DATA] Sheppard Robson has unveiled its £14.3 million overhaul of the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow
APD extends Lochside villa
APD Architecture has renovated and expanded a Victorian villa on the banks of Loch Fyne in Argyll, west Scotland
Anderson Bell + Christie's Hebridean community hall opens doors
[FIRST LOOK + DATA] Anderson Bell + Christie’s newly-opened community centre and bunk house has won a Civic Trust Award
Tom Jenkins' reveals new studio in C16th ruin
[FIRST LOOK + PLANS + DATA] Tom Jenkins has revealed new photographs of this studio on the coast of Fife in Scotland
Practices
New practices: Edo Architecture
The latest in a series of practice profiles looking at architects who have recently decided to go it alone either through choice or redundancy
New practices: Kettle Collective
The latest in a series of practice profiles looking at architects who have recently decided to go it alone either through choice or redundancy
Former RMJM big hitters set up new Scottish practice
Ex-RMJM star Tony Kettle has set up a new Edinburgh-based ‘design house’ with former colleagues Colin Bone and David Tripney
New Practices #26: a449
The latest in a series of practice profiles looking at architects who have recently decided to go it alone either through choice or redundancy
New Practices #16: Konishi Gaffney
The sixteenth in a series of practice profiles looking at architects who have recently decided to go it alone, either through choice or redundancy
Awards
Leslie Riddoch to chair 2013 Saltire Housing Design Awards
Broadcaster and journalist Lesley Riddoch will chair the Scottish awards alongside newly appointed convenor Jude Barber of Collective Architecture
RIAS Awards shortlist announced
Schemes by Reiach & Hall, Page\Park and Rural Design have been named among the 25 schemes shortlisted for this year’s RIAS Awards
OMA's Glasgow Maggie's Centre wins Doolan Award 2012
Rem Koolhaas’ practice OMA has won the RIAS Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland Award 2012 with its Maggie’s Gartnavel in Glasgow
Competitions
Design team needed for £6 million Ayrshire housing scheme
[Request to participate to be received by 25 February] South Ayrshire Council is on the hunt for an architect led design team for a £6 million housing development
Students
Anger as Strathclyde school of architecture leaves Brutalist home
The decision by the University of Strathclyde to move its school of architecture out of its much-loved 1960s home has been slammed by former tutors and students
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