Category: Regeneration

Glasgow’s Sighthill neighbourhood has long had a strong community, overshadowed by deteriorating housing conditions and concerns regarding the safety of amenity space. The area was isolated by heavy infrastructure, including the M8 motorway, disconnecting it from the city centre. In the 1960s, its ten towers were home to 7,500 people and latterly Sighthill experienced the high levels of multiple deprivation typical of inner-city high-rise estates.The last of these towers was demolished in 2016 and Glasgow City Council was determined that […]

Renfrewshire Council’s brief for Paisley Central Library was to create a dynamic, community focussed, new Central Library set within a dilapidated and constrained historic building at 22 High Street, Paisley. As with many high streets showing signs of decline and reduced footfall Renfrewshire Council have a focus on regenerating Paisley town Centre with significant works being undertaken on other facilities such as the Arts Centre, Town Hall and Museum. Hub West Scotland were appointed as the delivery partner for the […]

The regeneration of the Sighthill area has achieved a neighbourhood with a ‘sense of place’ – a coherent and consistent character with attractive streets and greenspaces. Previously the location for multistorey flats, this new development provides 184 new homes, creating an inclusive, intergenerational community. The development provides homes for social rent, complementing an adjacent development phase which provides homes for sale. A sense of placeFronting onto Calder Road, a series of four storey flats call attention to the new housing […]

The Gala Fairydean Rovers Spectators Stand in the small Scottish Borders town of Galashiels is one of the most exciting pieces of modern architecture in the UK. It opened in 1964 during a period of architectural optimism in Europe in general, at a time when football clubs occasionally dared to build exciting projects. The fact that Gala Fairydean and Gala Rovers are a lower league club made the commissioning of such a daring design even more incredible. The stand was […]