SPRING COMES EARLY
From the initial sketch to the finished product: the Tulip Gate is our latest collaboration with Alan Dawson. It was just installed today and brightens up a dreich Scottish winter’s day.
PETER DANIEL
Landscape Architect, Architect & Town Planner. 6.11.1924 to 30.11.2015 Sadly we have lost another great mentor and friend. Peter produced beautiful designs for the landscapes at Skaill & Scara Brae on Orkney, Jupiter Artland, Ford House and an amazing house on the Channel Isles which he worked on for almost 20 years. Apart from his consummate creativity and sensitivity, Peter was also great fun, a teacher and …
HEAD OF THE PINE FOREST
Stained glass artist Christian Shaw has developed BTA’s sketch design of a forest of pine tress with light filtering through for a Highland Home near Kingussie – meaning ‘Head of the pine forest’. Christian has used small pieces of cut coloured glass held within the leading to create the image and has inserted lenses which catch the light and almost create a …
DESTRUCTION
Destroying things is often an excellent way of seeing how things are made. Historic Environment Scotland helped to fund an experiment carried out with ourselves, David Narro Associates and Masons Mortar to perfect a specification for the simple, effective and economical repair of historic structures in the sea or underwater. The off-site trial consists of three different kinds of typical core masonry placed in a temporary …
“I WOULD HAVE BEEN HAPPY HAD IT BEEN TWICE THE LENGTH.”
A talk on Humayun’s Tomb & The Nizamuddin Urban Quarter in Delhi and the Tombs of Hyderabad, Friday 18th September 2015 After an absence of 18 years, Ratish Nanda, Project Director for the Aga Khan Trust for Culture in India, presented a talk in the McWilliam Room at the Glasite Meeting House, on the inspiring work of the Trust. Despite short notice, …
5 BEST PUBLIC SCULPTURES
Nicknamed ‘the Athens of the North’ for its prominent classical influences, like ancient Athens, Edinburgh is dotted with public sculptures. A recent poll of the five best public sculptures in Edinburgh announced that our design for the ‘Silver’ Gate of the to the Royal Botanic Gardens is one of them. Since its funding by the Friends of the Botanics and installation in 1996, it …
CYCLE TO WORK DAY
It is Cycle to Work Day and four of our architects cycled to work today. Our office cycling champion Fiona stopped for a picture of her bike in front of the cycle counter on Middle Meadow Walk and a selfie on beautiful Victoria Terrace.
A FEAST OF COLOUR AND TEXTURE
The Festivals are starting to buzz all around us. One of the most exciting shows is a cleverly combined exhibition of colour, texture and optical illusion, by Bernart Klein (1922 – 2014)and Chun Kwang Young at the Dovecot Studios. Both are inspirational and reinforce our own love of pattern and colour. On sale at the exhibition is a lovely photographic appreciation …
NEWS ABOUT AN CAMAS MÒR
FROM ‘THE STRATHY’, 2nd July 2015 “As Grantonians celebrated their 250th anniversary… at a meeting in the Grant Arms Hotel in Grantown, the laird of Rothiemurchus, John Grant explained… The key to excellent planning is to understand the lives of the people who will live and work there, how they will use the buildings and importantly the spaces between buildings. In these …
