Housing Shortfall
Increase from existing 25,000 new houses per year to 35,000 demanded for Scotland. Communities & Sport Minister said the “current rate of new house building - almost 25,000 new houses last year - is simply inadequate".
It’s essential the majority of this supply is located in dense developments on brownfield land; the planning system also requires immediate root & branch reform.
Glasgow Housing
Edinburgh Housing
Key contemporary Scottish Housing Project:
Homes for the Future
Scottish Housing
Major Glasgow Housing masterplans
Glasgow Harbour
Crown Street Housing
Tradeston
Recent Glasgow Housing projects
Cochrane Square
Festival Park Apartments
Glasgow Cross
Lancefield Quay
Queen Elizabeth Square
River Heights
The Axiom Housing
Recent Edinburgh Housing projects
Donaldsons College redevelopment
Anchor Apartments
New Street Edinburgh
Keep up with news re emerging Scottish Housing projects on the Glasgow News + Edinburgh News pages
Scottish Housing - Background
Scottish housing stock generally varies from wee bungalows to sixties high
rises; in the Highlands traditional crofts mingle with new properties which often look like they could be from anywhere ie non-indigenous. After the Second World War a massive housing construction commenced in Scotland (& across Europe) with slab blocks and tower blocks mostly located around the edges of the major cities such as Glasgow and Edinburgh, and in New Towns in the Central Belt such as Cumbernauld.
glasgow tower blocks - image © adrian welch
In the Seventies this major building programme stalled and low-scale dense
housing took its place, mainly built by private housing developers. Styling was
generally regressive but in the Nineties some more contemporary Scottish housing emerged. Notable were the Homes for the Future scheme in Glasgow and the Slateford Green housing in Edinburgh. One-off houses such as those by Richard Murphy also encouraged a shift in thinking towards contemporary architecture.
glasgow tower blocks - image © adrian welch
Tower Block:
Modern Public Housing in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland (Paul Mellon Centre)
Stefan Muthesius, Miles Glendinning
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Glasgow Houses
Glasgow
Edinburgh
Lotte Glob House
International Housing:
Palm Island Dubai
Hong Kong Architecture
Copenhagen Housing
George St & Broomlands St housing, Paisley, Renfrewshire
2003
Page & Park Architects
Housing development for Loretto Housing Association
Inchyra Place – housing, Grangemouth
2003
Page & Park Architects
50 houses for Loretto Housing Association
Stanley Mills – conversion + restoration, Stanley, Perth & Kinross
1996-2003
LDN Architects
A Listed
Converted to flats + houses for The Phoenix Trust
Victoria Parade residential development, Dunoon, Argyll & Bute
2003
Elder & Cannon
For Fyne Homes / Queens Cross Housing Association
World Architecture : e-architect - a guide to key buildings across the globe
Scottish House
Comments or building suggestions / photos for the Scottish Housing page
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Scottish Housing - page : adrian welch / isabelle lomholt