The Practice is looking at options for a hotel on the West Highland Way; presently not all the rooms are en-suite!

Very sadly, Jim Lennie, the “Best Quantity Surveyor in the world”, died on Thursday 25th June 2015.  His Indicative Costs were unsurpassed for accuracy and his service for helpfulness.  He was the best mentor the Practice ever had.  He was also a delightful man with a lovely family.  Although most of his work was in the difficult field of historic …

As you can see, our office is all geared up to take part in the Love to Ride Scotland, National Cycle Challenge from 8-28th June.

Ben and Silke like to thank Jane Raven for the invite to the VIP Preview Party.  It was a wonderful evening, lots of fabulous looking art installations and some really wonderfully bonkers spaces.  Our vote for the best smelling studio was a collaboration called ‘Adventures in Light/Pyrus’, with pine, hyacinth and gorse installed at walls and ceiling; it investigates the …

We are very proud that the new Wings at Bonnington House continue to garner recognition, with two new shortlistings; for both the RIAS/RIBA Awards, including the Special Category of ‘Conservation and Climate Change’,  and the Scottish Design Awards for ‘Re-use of a Listed Building’. PS: A previous SDA award for ‘Best Regeneration Project’ was given to the practice for The Hub in 2000.  The Hub also picked up …

Ben was awarded a Fellowship of the RIAS and presented with it at the same time as Sir Ken Calman was given an Honorary Fellowship.  Having worked together on the Board of the National Trust for Scotland for the last 4 years, this was a very happy coincidence.

BTA are delighted to announce that our recently completed project at Bonnington House, located within the grounds of Jupiter Artland near Edinburgh, has been shortlisted for both the 2015 EAA Regeneration & Conservation award and the RICS Building Conservation award.  The results will be announced on Tuesday, 31st March and Thursday, 23rd April respectively. A public exhibition of all the EAA short-listed projects can be viewed in Edinburgh at …

Ben Tindall and his wife recently returned from their annual trip to India.  Ben writes: One of the wonders of India is how building conservation is built into their constitution, and another is how India reveres their British heritage; maybe this is mutual respect. Ebba Koch, an Austrian Art Historian who wrote the new and incomparable book on the Taj Mahal has …

Colour can be hard to discuss and many architects prefer to stick to white!  However, Prof. Fiona McLachlan at Edinburgh University has made the study of colour a speciality which she recently shared with us and some colleagues.  Her book ‘Architectural Colour in the Professional Palette‘ is wonderful and made us realise how complex colour is and what part different perceptions, social …