INTERIORS: Interior Design

MESART GWR – Hair Salon

Award

It took our client many years to find the right location for their new salon. The site needed to be large enough to become a super salon; a space big enough to offer many services under one roof. As hair professionals, our client is accustomed to making others feel beautiful. However, with rising environmental concerns, they also believe it is their social responsibility to turn our joint attention to preserving the beauty of the world we live in. Therefore our […]

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Leamington Terrace

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The property is set within a row of two storey Victorian terraced houses and had previously been subdivided into 2 flats and was in poor repair. Our project returned the property into one large family home, restoring the property to its former glory whilst also extending and reconfiguring to create new flexible spaces, more suited to contemporary life. Within the existing property, we reinstated the original stair and lobby whilst adapting and extending to the rear of the house.  The […]

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Commercial Quay Phase 1

Commendation

These Category ‘A’ listed former bonded warehouses, once cool offices of the 90s, were looking tired and uninspiring when our client bought them in 2019. Our brief was to create cool office space, with a bespoke café and craft beer bar useable by both the tenants and the public, along with ‘unique’ break out spaces for the tenants. A number of café, bar and restaurant operators had vacated the ground floor units, so we were faced with the challenge of […]

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Comely Bank

Commendation

Luke and Joanne McClelland renovated an Edinburgh period apartment to create a modern, sustainable and light-filled family home. They met while studying architecture at Edinburgh College of Art and, having spent the previous 8 years living in a small apartment in London, moved to Scotland in search of space. Spread over the drawing room levels of two Georgian townhouses in Edinburgh’s Comely Bank area, the apartment was in a poor state of repair when they bought it in early 2018. […]

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Ka Pao Restaurant

Nomination

MOSAIC Architecture + Design has given Ka Pao, the new restaurant housed in the basement of the recently converted Botanic Gardens Garage on Vinicombe Street in Glasgow’s West End, a distinctly South East Asian look and feel to complement its menu. Following the success in designing sister restaurant Ox & Finch,  Ka Pao is a 200 capacity bar Restaurant located within the basement unit of the Grade A listed Botanic Garden Garage development. Thanks to existing and reclaimed white ceramic […]

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CANTEEN 58

Nomination

Owner Dario Marchetti had run the ionic traditional bar and restaurant “Ingram Wynd” serving pints and traditional Scottish fare in Glasgow’s Merchant City for 15 years. He realized that Covid 19 had already changed the hospitality scene, with a huge new demand for take-away meals. They invested in the latest software to allow customers to click and collect and also order from their table. The new restaurant is Glasgow’s first to be designed specifically with covid in mind.    The goal was to offer […]

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