My Place Awards: 2018

Dumfries Neighbourhood Street Design Project

Dumfries Neighbourhood Street Design ProjectShortlisted

Sustrans Scotland
Dumfries & Galloway

Sustrans Scotland worked in partnership with Dumfries and Galloway Council, residents and businesses, from May 2013 to June 2017 to transform a once neglected part of Dumfries into a more liveable, inclusive and active travel friendly neighbourhood. The project coincided with a regeneration programme for the area, led by the Council’s Strategic Housing Service. This ...

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Laird's Waiting Room, Ladybank

Laird's Waiting Room, LadybankShortlisted

Fife Historic Buildings Trust
Fife

This project was the vision of Ladybank Development Trust, a community trust with charitable status set up through Ladybank Community Council to improve the local community’s access to facilities and services. The Trust adopted Ladybank Railway Station in Spring 2011 and identified the potential restoration and reuse of the buildings at Ladybank Station as a community ...

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Leader Valley School, Earlston

Leader Valley School, EarlstonShortlisted

Scottish Borders Council
Scottish Borders

The pavilion form & deceptively simple plan of Leader Valley school has been specifically deployed to diminish the visual impact of the building on its user group: primary-aged children on the autism spectrum & with complex learning needs. Beneath the mask, however, the design uses natural light & subtle curved forms to create visual & ...

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St Luke's and The Winged Ox

St Luke's and The Winged OxShortlisted

Coltart Earley Architecture
Glasgow

The Grade “B” Listed St. Luke’s and St Andrews Church is located in the Calton’s Bain Square at the very heart of Glasgow’s East End and a stone’s throw from the city’s legendary Barras and Barrowlands, it was designed by Glasgow’s James Wylson and erected in 1836. The main church was extended by a brick clad ...

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West Road Station Garden, Haddington

West Road Station Garden, HaddingtonShortlisted

Haddington and District Amenity Society (HADAS)
East Lothian

Station Garden, on the West Road and approach to Haddington, is the site if the former Haddington Station forecourt and entrance. A feature of the town that has almost been forgotten, although the station building can still be found behind the high wall that marks the boundary to the garden. The original features of the station ...

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Blairs Home Farm

Blairs Home Farm

Blairs Home Farm
Moray

Blairs Home Farm Steading was designed by Archibald Simpson, circa 1834 with some late 19th century alterations and additions. It is a picturesque Italianate group of detached farm steading buildings forming churchyard with Club House range at slightly lower level. All buildings are harled with considerable use of contrasting polished and tooled ashlar dressings and ...

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Broxtowe, 27 Newark Drive

Broxtowe, 27 Newark Drive

Pollokshields Heritage
Glasgow

Summary description text supplied by Organic Architects: A traditional B-Listed Sandstone Villa situated in the West Pollokshields Conservation Area required extensive restoration work and remodelling. Grant funding was obtained to carry the external fabric repairs to the main house this include traditional stonework repairs, reslating and sensitive restoration of important stain glass windows. In addition to ...

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Caledonian Road School

Caledonian Road School

Perth Civic Trust
Perth & Kinross

This B listed 3-storey, rectangular plan, free Jacobean style school with symmetrical, 3-bay elevations, building is situated on prominent corner site. It is squared and snecked red sandstone with ashlar margins with a base course, cill course, band course, and cornice. Dutch gables; bipartite windows with stone mullions and transoms, some round headed. Caledonian Road School ...

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Cunningham Graham Close, 13-17 High Street, Perth

Cunningham Graham Close, 13-17 High Street, Perth

Perth Civic Trust
Perth & Kinross

This project involved the comprehensive repair of seven flats in the historic B listed tenement at 13-17 High Street, which is often known as Cunningham Graham Close, and two shop units on the ground floor, one of which was in the ownership of the Council through the Common Good Fund, but which had been empty ...

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Custom House, Greenock

Custom House, Greenock

Riverside Inverclyde
Inverclyde

Custom House The adaptive restoration and re-use of this significant Category A Listed neoclassical structure involved 4 complex phases over the last 5 years, with the final phase completed in early 2017. This required a process of structured milestones that managed the changes required of the brief, funding availability, condition and repair, regulatory requirements and phasing ...

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