Category: ARCHITECTURE: Future Building or Project

Located within the Old Town Conservation Area, in the heart of Edinburgh’s UNESCO World Heritage Site, the project lies adjacent to the A-listed Old Tolbooth Wynd and Canongate Kirk.  Sitting to the north of the main Canongate, the site represents the last vestige of the former City Gasworks. Our proposals for a new office development seek to maintain the layered existing fabric and the tales that are inherent within it, whilst providing the next chapter in the story through a […]

Overlooking Loch Leven in Kinross, Orwell Farm was purchased 12 months ago, by Managing Director of architectural practice LBA, Lynsay Manson and her husband. LBA had been looking for new office premises for some time in Edinburgh and when the opportunity came up to buy the farm with the derelict outbuildings it seemed the prefect opportunity to create a second office for the practice. When approached by a watch designer who lives locally and a realisation that there were numerous […]

The National Manufacturing Institute for Scotland (NMIS) will provide support for manufacturing businesses, help to attract investment and connect all of Scotland’s engineering Universities and Colleges. The vision is for the NMIS to be an industry-led centre of manufacturing expertise where research, industry and the public sector work together to transform skills, productivity and innovation to attract investment and make Scotland a global leader in advanced manufacturing. This will include the establishment of a new joint Centre for Manufacturing Excellence […]

The Institute for Health and Wellbeing at University of Glasgow creates, develops and disseminates ground-breaking research on disease prevention, improving Health & Wellbeing and reducing inequalities locally, nationally and globally. The New building brings five, formerly remote, research groups together in a single location for the first time, transforming the Institutes ability to develop interdisciplinary research and outreach. The building creates meaningful street level space for public engagement and connects these interactions spatially to the impactful work of the Institutes […]

Located to the north of the village of Tongue, Sutherland, and lying close to the shores of the Kyle of Tongue, the site is the former home of Peter Burr’s Stores; a well-known general merchant and private transport company which widely served the region from 1909 to the 1980’s. Storage buildings, an atmospheric disused bakery and stonemason’s building, as well as the Historic Dunvarich Lodge have been incorporated where possible into the proposal. The proposal seeks to renew and re-purpose […]

The Allander Sports Centre, situated the Northern Glasgow suburb of Bearsden, has been a recreational hub for the community for over 40 years. In this time, it’s been the backdrop to swimming galas, football birthday parties, indoor bowl events, squash challenges, coffee mornings and fetes. Kelvinbank Adult Resource Centre in Kirkintilloch, has provided Day Care to Adults with learning challenges for a similar period, providing crucial support to families throughout East Dunbartonshire. It is home from home for the Centre […]

The scheme concerns the redevelopment of a vacant site on Niddrie Mains Road – formerly a DIY store and part of the wider Craigmillar masterplan – to provide a mixed-use intergenerational residential development, comprising Purpose Built Student Accommodation, Assisted Living and Dementia Care provision. The proposed development has sought to create an environment that positively addresses the challenges of the nation’s ageing demographic and which provides an integrated, intergenerational community that accommodates some of the most vulnerable members of our […]

The Edinburgh Synagogue was originally built in 1932 and designed by renowned architect, James Miller. It is a Category B listed building on Salisbury Road in Edinburgh and is quite unique to Miller’s built portfolio. Better known for his commercial buildings in Glasgow, such as the Anchor Line, and his railway buildings, such as Wemyss Bay station, Miller’s work here is somewhat heavier and more forbidding.  The building is presently home to the Edinburgh Hebrew Congregation. The brief emerged from […]