Category: Future Building or Project

Konishi Gaffney have designed two new dwellings in the village of Glenelg, a scattered coastal community in the Western Highlands – set within the stunning landscape of Lochalsh and provide extraordinary views of the Isle of Skye across the Sound of Sleat. Both houses, sited on peat bogs, are entirely steel and concrete-free: timber posts on stone foundations support a lightweight timber frame construction and a zinc roof. This approach, devised with Edinburgh-based structural engineer Allt, minimises excavation ensuring the […]

A new multi-million pound Museum of Aberdeenshire and Peterhead Library. The project will see the listed Arbuthnot House at the lower end of Broad Street sensitively restored and extended to house both the town’s library and a new museum showcasing Aberdeenshire’s extensive heritage collections and artwork. It forms part of the ambitious “Cultural Tides: North Sea Connections in Aberdeenshire” bid being supported with £20million from the UK Government alongside the renovation and extension of Macduff Marine Aquarium.The new museum will […]

Located to the west end of Dundee Street and spanning south onto Dundee Terrace, this gushet site sits at a juncture between the established districts of Merchiston, Dalry, Fountainbridge and Slateford. The traditional Edinburgh tenement surroundings have the distinctive form and strong rhythm that can be found across the Scottish capital. The development consists of purpose-built-managed- student-accommodation alongside a retail unit that is earmarked for use by a local charity. The proposed layouts provide a highly accessible residence that is […]

Woodland House at Loch Awe The Woodland House is designed for a secluded site on the western bank of Loch Awe. Developed as a base for ecological stewardship and rewilding of its surrounding woodlands, the project carefully creates a small off-grid homestead. Located on a former Forestry & Land Scotland plantation, for several years the clients – experienced in forestry – have worked the land – camping, planting, and caring for the woodland. The house represents the next chapter in […]

Having lain vacant and derelict for almost 40 years, the A – listed Govan Graving Docks is at the centre of ambitious plans to create a new, vibrant mixed-use neighbourhood. Years of extensive conversations, presentations and workshops have resulted in proposals that encourage a bold and imaginative balance between creating new homes, preserving, repairing, and reopening the docks for historical ship repairing, while inviting other exciting and compatible uses including a new Riverside Park and an active travel route that […]