Named RIBA House of the Year 2025, Izat Arundell’s self-built home in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides was recognised for its sensitivity to place, hyper-local materiality and assured response to an extreme landscape.
O’DonnellBrown has reimagined a 1970s community building as a performing arts and youth centre in Kilmarnock, Scotland.
Bennetts Associates has completed a major renewal of Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre, a project more than a decade in the making. Rory Olcayto, who spent his formative years in Glasgow, visits a building that once bottled the city’s wild energy.
Pend Architects’ contemporary extension to a Georgian farmhouse in East Lothian unifies a fragmented rear elevation and creates a new link to the property’s garden.
Hassell’s interdisciplinary research hub for the University of Edinburgh brings together academia, industry and government to address pressing challenges in health and social care, drawing on Scotland’s heritage of public good and global innovation.
Based in a former police training academy in Glasgow's Laurieston, Stallan-Brand work in a neighbourhood that has suffered brutal and dislocating changes, but which they are helping to heal and evolve in a gentle and organic way.
Tom Greenall introduces DSDHA's Co-Design website and explains how achieving meaningful participation in co-design can serve as a transformative tool to address the complex, intersecting crises shaping our built environment.
Kate Quinlan, director at McLean Quinlan talks to AT about the virtues of having a family-run practice, why they moved the office to Winchester, and two new projects on the North Downs and in the US.
Iorram Cottage by Baillie Baillie strikes a sensitive balance between local Highland vernacular and regenerative building methods.
AT talks to… Becca Thomas from New Practice about joining forces with multidisciplinary studio, Civic, and working at the intersection of architecture, sustainability and community engagement.
AT talks to… Colin Baillie of Baillie Baillie about using natural materials to deliver projects that address climate resilience, respect the vernacular architecture of the Scottish Highlands, and take account of its climate, labour and skills.
