The latest addition to the practice’s library is an 8-volume compendium of all aspects of woodwork, covering everything from design to structure & furniture, in 1904. The covers are designed by Talwin Morris who was significant part of Charles Rennie Macintosh’s circle and designed a great many book covers for Walter Blackie, Macintosh’s client for Hill House at that date. Inside the back cover of …
BTA gathered together many of the influential people in Kintyre and Scotland’s conservation community to consider the future of Cour House, an exceptional masterpiece by Oliver Hill, which is now almost unhabitable and so uneconomical to repair that its future is very much in doubt. After two days of intense discussions, in very cold conditions, led by author Alan Powers and chaired by AHSS President …
We were privileged to be working for Jonathan Miller when he was Chairman of the Fringe. At a Board meeting he asked why the Scottish Arts Council had not given a grant for the iconic shopfront designed with Gerald Scarfe. We responded that they had told us the brief was ‘too restrictive’. The brief was for something ‘eye-catching, fun and representing music, …
A view of the sculptor and artist Michelle de Bruin with her latest work of a wolf; though her cockapoo Pippin insists she is the wolf. Michelle’s studio is in Hutton Stone’s yard near the Union Chain Bridge in Berwickshire.
Our newest member of staff is now 12 weeks old. Her energy is prodigious, for about 30 minutes at a time, and after needs a little sleep.
There is a famous letter about Kelburn Castle, where the next phase of HES grant assisted repairs is about to start, which Evelyn Waugh sent to his wife Laura on 31st May 1942, which can also be heard in this recording by Geoffrey Palmer. Here’s what Waugh wrote: No. 3 Commando were very anxious to be chums with Lord Glasgow so they offered to blow up …
34 years ago Ben & Prof Denis Mollison, Chairman of the Mountain Bothy Association, helped turn a roofless and abandoned slate quarry building into one the UK’s favourite bothies. With the depredation of damp and sheep and with mushrooms growing in the pine boards the moment has come for a new oak door & frame (being measured up here) for this hidden …
Phase One of the Edinburgh Steiner School’s ‘Growing Spaces Project‘ is due for completion this summer. The first of many delights can be seen in the concrete steps to the upper floor. The school students selected the appropriate words and then cut out the letters for the Contractor to attach to the shuttering. When complete, the lettering will be picked …
Things are progressing on site as we work towards finishing the Link building between St. Peter’s Church and the Hall, providing a fully-accessible and wonderful place for church and community users. Here’s a visual of what it will look like. It will be open for the Festival, and the Church will open as part of Doors Open Day in September
