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Aberdeen Building News - 2008:

Peacock Centre News

Northeast Scotland's main centre of contemporary visual arts under threat not by credit crunch but by North Sea oil millionaire Sir Ian Wood's plans to flatten Union Terrace Gardens: Aberdeen Contemporary Arts Centre

Trump Housing
Planning Permission minded to grant 3 Nov 2008
Donald Trump’s housing estate with golf courses & hotel attacked by Simon Jenkins who rightly argued it would be an environmental outrage to allow approval

Ardent House Approved
Miller Cromdale office development planning application approved : Ardent House

Aberdeen - Bastion for Quality Architecture?
A major campaign to boost the quality of architectural design could be launched in Aberdeen. Aberdeen City Council is aiming to link up with academics, architects, arts organisations, the private sector and the Scottish Government to drive up standards, and gain international recognition for Aberdeen as a 'City of Design'. They will have a significant challenge ahead.
A report has been prepared by the head of planning and infrastructure, Dr Margaret Bochel. Aberdeen aims to be the first local authority in Scotland to produce a "Policy on Architecture" to pick up on key themes in national design policy. 110708

Broadford Works
First Construction won its planning permission appeal, but lost its listed building consent appeal for £50m urban village at Broadford Works. Reports suggest Ian Suttie, First's owner, will develop new-build sections of the village minus the 221 flats in the empty former Richard’s textile factory. Went to Planning committee 160807, scroll down page for more

Robert Gordon University

Winner announced : BDP - Robert Gordon University 300508

Aberdeenshire House

St. Cyrus House : Paterson Architects 290508

Millbank

Aberdeenshire village designs : Smith Scott Mullan Associates 290508

Marischal College

New images of Marischal College unveiled 260508

First Bus HQ
Stewart Milne Construction has won the contract to construct its First Bus HQ: global headquarters & bus depot. Work due to be complete Spring 2009

Donside urban village
Planning approval for largest affordable home development in North East Scotland at former Donside Paper Mill, Tillydrone: 25-acre brownfield site, 278 new homes

Triple Kirks News
Stewart Milne Developments acquires derelict Triple Kirks in Aberdeen from Esson Properties. Redevelopment as offices proposed.

New Aberdeen stadium
Report to be submitted 19 Dec : Aberdeen football stadium

Aberdeen Library
University of Aberdeen Library approved

No to Trump Course
Donald Trump golf resort proposal knocked into the long grass

SEPA Offices Aberdeen
Waterfront Offices & Labs on brownfield site in Torry by Keppie Design for
Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) + 19 houses & 27 flats for Grampian Housing Association. Sepa to share office space with Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) and the Joint Nature Conservation Council; the design includes solar panels, groundwater heat pump & wind turbines

Aberdeen City Council HQ

Copyright: Aberdeen City Council
Conversion of Marischal College: Aberdeen Council HQ

Decision deferred on Trump's golf resort proposal
The Formartine area committee to visit the site and hold a hearing on 2 Oct:
Aberdeen development

Robert Gordon University Aberdeen - new Architecture School
Shortlist of 9 architects for £80m relocation to the Garthdee campus, 2007

Esslemont & Macintosh : Hotel
Five-storey E&M building bought by C&L Properties to be 120-bed Aberdeen hotel

New Prof
The Scott Sutherland School of Architecture & Built Environment in Aberdeen appoint new Visiting Professor: Alan Dunlop of gm+ad architects

Boutique Hotel Proposal
Proposal by Bancon Developments to create 100-bed four-star hotel at former Aberdeen Megabowl bowling alley site recommended for approval by Aberdeen City Council. Facing onto St Andrew’s Street the 5-7 storey hotel would also be bounded by George Street, Charlotte Street & John Street. Previously Detailed Planning consent was granted in Jun 2006 for 56 flats & two shops

Peacock Visual Arts - Centre for Contemporary Arts
Planning submission for Aberdeen Contemporary Arts Centre. The proposed building is to be located at Union Terrace Gardens and is designed by Brisac Gonzalez Architects, London Jul 2007

Mither Kirk Project
£5.1m St Nicholas Kirk redevelopment

Aberdeen Energy Development Centre
Energy Development Centre to promote research, design and development within the industry. The £4.73m Energy Development Centre - complete with biomass boiler & wind turbine - is due to start on site this Autumn, and include 27 business units. Located at Aberdeen Science and Energy Park at the Bridge of Don, next to Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre Jul 2007

Justice Mill Lane Approved
Richard Murphy Architects’ Aberdeen development for Hazledene Estates received planning permission Jun 2007

Prince's Foundation : Ellon
The Sustainable Growth of Ellon event took place on 14 Jun 2007, organised by the Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment. Hank Dittmar, chief executive of the Prince's Foundation, said Ellon had become "a dormitory town" serving Aberdeen "rather than a place in its own right”.

The Prince's Trust invited architect Ray Gindroz, chairman of Urban Design Associates, Pittsburgh, to join the workshop and outline a future model for the town. Mr Gindroz identified numerous weaknesses in the town's design, like cul-de-sacs with limited town centre access and large-scale housing developments rather than proper neighbourhoods.

Aberdeen Urban Village
Former Richard’s textile factory £50m conversion approved in principal by Aberdeen City Council
Developer: First Construction
Site: Broadford Works, Maberly St
Proposal: 221 flat conversions; 177 new-build flats; retail; pub; restaurant; offices
Area: 8.6-acres
Status: A-listed buildings incl. oldest iron-framed mill in Scotland, dated 1808

First Group HQ
Approval recommended for First Group Aberdeen headquarters

Archibald Simpson Book unveiled
Book by David Miller re the architect of buildings such as Marischal College, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary and Aberdeen Music Hall

New Horizons House
2007-08
New 46,500 sq ft Grade A office development for Seletar Shipping on site of existing Horizons House at Waterloo Quay, Aberdeen. Knight Frank to project manage this six storey £11m building

Aberdeen HQ
New Headquarters for Wood Group Engineering (North Sea) unit

Aberdeen Hotel approved
KBA proposal at former Queens Hotel. Full planning permission to alter and extend the listed building for Malmaison gained by Kerr Blyth Associates

Donside Urban Village - Aberdeen housing ’environmentally-friendly urban village’
Halliday Fraser Munro

Union Square masterplan – Odeon cinema, Aberdeen
2006
BDP
Shopping centre: Competition won by BDP - £58m

Holiday Inn Aberdeen West by KBA Feb07

Photo from KBA 010207

Westhill Shopping Centre Expansion Feb07
Edinburgh-based Gladedale Capital purchased Westhill Shopping Centre and is
reportedly proposing planning submission for a 30,000sqft extension

Aberdeen Sports Centre by Reiach and Hall Architects gets funding Dec06

Plans submitted for Aberdeen hotel by Curious Architecture Ltd Nov06

Outline planning application by Trump International Golf Links to Aberdeenshire Council for golf course & luxury resort development: Aberdeen development Nov06

Queen's Hotel to be converted to £7m Malmaison Hotel Aberdeen Oct06

HTA Architects' £500m Aberdeen Community Regeneration Sep06

£25m Shell Aberdeen HQ building approved Sep06

Bon Accord Masterplan approved Sep06

Union Plaza building
2006-08
Aberdeen's largest speculative office development
Location: Union Row
125,000sqft

Aberdeen Market overhaul approved Sep06 with links from listed Union Street buildings down to the market

Extension to His Majesty's Theatre Aberdeen - one of the few Scottish buildings nominated for Civic Building of the Year Sep06

Aberdeen Architecture - Building News from 2006

Trump Tower
The Scotsman reports possible plans for '250 properties' within Trump Organisation's Golf development at Balmedie, north of Aberdeen, by architects Jenkins & Marr: please note plans are not yet lodged but due this Autumn. Designs unveiled so far for the Clubhouse and 500-room hotel reveal a traditional Victorian style: 230806

Riverside Development
Dyce housing by Holmes Partnership: 080806

Aberdeen Sports Building
£23m Regional Sports Centre in Aberdeen by Reiach and Hall Architects

Aberdeen University Library Competition
Winner: Schmidt Hammer & Lassen

Image from SHL 230207
Shortlisted: Page \ Park Architects, MacCormac Jamieson Prichard, Moshe Safdie with Allan Murray Architects, O'Donnell + Tuomey Architects, Bennetts Associates

Aberdeen Medical Facility - Matthew Hay Project
Bennetts Associates
£16m Medical Education Facility

Justice Mill Lane
Richard Murphy Architects
Aberdeen city centre development
former Satrosphere site redevelopment
£40m office space + landmark hotel + residential accommodation

Peacock Visual Arts – Architecture Competition:
Shortlist: 3XN - 3 x Nielsen, Reiach and Hall Architects, Richard Murphy Architects, Nicol Russell Studios
Proposed pavilion in centre of Queensgate would require removal of the Mercat Cross
Feasibility study by Nicol Russell Studios
Cancelled early 2006

Hill of Banchory Primary School
Completed in northeast Banchory, Kincardineshire by Holmes Partnership

Aberdeen City Centre Regeneration
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