Tollcross maybe first, but how exactly?, Mike Wilson
HE was a fellow passenger on the overnight bus from Edinburgh to London. If I clocked his name at the time, I have long since…
Tag: Features
Edinburgh’s ‘ghost signs’, Leila Kean
I CAN vividly remember the first ever ‘ghost sign’ I saw in Edinburgh. Our family had just moved to Bruntsfield Place, and there, as I…
Scotland’s empty homes, Andy Moseley
SCOTLAND is facing a housing emergency. A chronic shortage of housing is leading to increasing numbers of people in temporary accommodation and longer housing waiting…
In pursuit of high placemaking standards at Alloa’s Primrose Street
THIS was meant to be a feature about designing for dementia, as it applied to a new residential apartment block in the middle of the…
Possible funding sources (a work in progress)
IT takes patient detective work, to collate the various funding pots out there, for organisations looking to finance ‘improvements’ to our places in Scotland. Whether…
Why heat networks are the answer, Simon Kerr
IT is a welcome move, indeed, the Scottish Government’s request of every local authority in the land, that they submit plans (by the end of…
Peatlands: the jewels in Scotland’s crown, Sue Walker
OVER a fifth of Scotland is covered with the soft brown hues of our peatlands, streaked with the yellows, greens and pinks of the mosses…
Tall, narrow buildings for a small public square?
IF we are agreed that the first mark on a blank sheet of paper – when it comes to designing a new town – is…
Where to begin, designing a new town?
SO, where to begin, designing the layout to a new town? When it comes to making that first mark on a piece of paper, there…
Pull the carbon from under your very sustainable building, Steve Webb
THE honey tone of your exposed Douglas Fir frame proudly proclaims sustainability and a planet-loving rapprochement with nature; but under the ground lurks a dirty…