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New architecture developments + buildings in Scotland. Modern built environment + architects designs updates.

post updated 17 February 2026

Scottish Architecture News 2026

10 February 2026

Glasgow Art Club Spring Exhibition

The GAC Spring Exhibition opened to the public on 13th February on Bath Street.

29 January 2026

Charing Cross Gateway Demolition News

Reigart begins demolition at Elmbank Gardens for major Glasgow city centre redevelopment by the M8.

This major 730,000 sq ft mixed-use development is designed by lead architect Michael Laird Architects, from Edinburgh. Phase one of the development will deliver student accommodation.

13 January 2025
The Victoria Glasgow Homes
Design: Collective Architecture

photo © Keith Hunter

First buildings of major scheme provide more than 130 affordable new homes, with hundreds more to come in Phase Two:

The Victoria Glasgow homes

12 January 2026

Princes House Student Accommodation Glasgow Building Design

Acting on behalf of TREC Capital, Mosaic Architecture + Design has submitted a planning application to develop best-in-class purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) at Princes House in Glasgow city centre.

Princes House Student Accommodation Glasgow Building News

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10 December 2025
The Cabrach Distillery, Speyside, Scottish Highlands
Design: Collective Architecture

photo © Susie Lowe

3 November 2025

jmarchitects has become employee-owned!

photo : Jamie Simpson

jmarchitects joins the growing number of businesses to become employee-owned. The 100-strong team working across design studios in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester and London are now the owners of the company.

Read the article in full at the Glasgow Building News 2025 page.

30 September 2025

Scottish Housing Statistics News

Lowest level of calendar year starts across all sectors since 1996 as completions fall a further 6 per cent

Sector body Homes for Scotland (HFS) is calling on the public to raise their concerns over the housing emergency as latest statistics reveal ongoing decline in the number of new homes being started and completed across the country.

Edinburgh Architecture News page.

22 September 2025
Kloud Café-Bar in Glasgow
Design: Kidz Studio

photo : Gabriel Reynolds

22 September 2025
St Enoch Square Property Development, Glasgow
Mosaic Architecture + Design convert the former Teacher building at St Enoch Square, Glasgow into serviced apartments with space for a whisky-themed bar restaurant:
Former Teacher building at St Enoch Square

17 September 2025
Home of Shinty at Bught Park, Inverness, northern Scotland

photo courtesy of Rybka

More Inverness architecture news here: Inverness Architecture

11 September 2025
Denny Housing Development News
Cruden Homes submits a planning application for a major residential development in Denny, in Falkirk:

See the Glasgow Building News page.

11 September 2025
New Housing Emergency Action Plan

SELECT says Scottish Government must ensure it supports enough skilled construction professionals to deliver it. The trade association and its members say continued pipeline of young talent is “absolutely vital” for industry to grow and meet future housing needs:

See the Edinburgh Architecture News 2025 page, link further up this post.

19 August 2025
Catalog House, Edinburgh conservation area
Architect: Pend Architects

photo : Lorenzo Zandri
Catalog House in Trinity, Edinburgh

1 August 2025
RIBA Client of the Year 2025 Shortlist News
This architecture project is one of the six, and the only one located in Scotland.

HM Prison and Young Offender Institution Stirling Scotland by Architects Holmes Miller:

photo : Chris Humphreys Photography

21 July 2025
Kettle Collective Architects News
International architecture and design studio Kettle Collective has expanded its global team with the appointment of three senior design leaders across architecture, interiors, and landscape. The firm has also strengthened its UK presence with the opening of a new London studio, reinforcing its commitment to high-performance and energy-efficient design on an international scale:
Kettle Collective Architects Studio

2 July 2025
New College University of St Andrews, Fife
Architects: WilkinsonEyre

image courtesy of WilkinsonEyre architects practice

30 June 2025
Cables Wynd House and Linksview House, Leith Housing Retrofit
Design: Collective Architecture

image © CollectiveArchitecture & Touch3D
Built in the 1960s and now designated as Category A listed buildings, Cables Wynd House and Linksview House collectively provide 310 homes, the majority of which are owned by the Council for social rent.

28 June 2025
Usher Building News
Usher Building at Edinburgh BioQuarter

17 June 2025
Architecture and Design Scotland Review News

image courtesy of the Scottish Government
Recommendations to enhance the role of Scotland’s national body for architecture and design have been published, following a review to ensure it remains fit for purpose.

13 May 2025
Rosslyn Castle building news
Design: Page\Park Architects

photo : Jim Stephenson

8 May 2025
First opening road bridge over the River Clyde, Strathclyde, west Scotland
Architect: Kettle Collective

photo : Drone Scotland
The Renfrew Bridge – the first opening road bridge across the River Clyde – will open tomorrow (Friday 9 May) at midday (12.00pm) marking the completion of the Clyde Waterfront and Renfrew Riverside project.

3 May 2025
St Nicholas Kirk Aberdeen building news

photo courtesy of ScotArt

30 April 2025
Mass Timber Centre of Excellence launches at BE-ST Campus

photo courtesy of Built Environment – Smarter Transformation (BE-ST)< /span>

A centre of excellence for mass timber research, innovation and manufacturing was launched today by Built Environment – Smarter Transformation (BE-ST). Supported by Scottish Funding Council and host institution Edinburgh Napier University, the Innovation Campus at BE-ST will now house £1.5 million pounds of newly acquired, state-of-the-art mass timber post-processing equipment and SuperBlower extraction system:

Mass Timber Centre of Excellence

post updated 16 + 15 April 2025

Historic Environment Scotland awards £574,075 Partnership Funding to BEFS

Historic Environment Scotland (HES) has awarded £574,075 in funding to the Built Environment Forum Scotland (BEFS) as part of the HES Partnership Fund. The Fund supports organisations working to promote, celebrate and enhance Scotland’s rich and diverse heritage.

Rosslyn Chapel Visitor Centre building, Midlothian, southeast Scotland:

photos courtesy of BEFS

BEFS is delighted to announce that it is one of seven organisations to receive Partnership Funding in 2025. The award will support BEFS in its core activity and work over the next three years, encouraging cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary collaboration to benefit the resilience of Scotland’s historic and existing built environment.

Over the funding period 2025-2028 BEFS will continue to work to increase sector capacity to engage holistically with key legislation, policy, and strategy; amplifying the value of the historic environment to Scotland’s economy, environment, culture and society and advocating for the existing and historic built environment across a number of key policy areas including the journey to net zero, traditional construction skills, retrofit and planning.

Hazel Johnson, Director of BEFS:

With continued HES support BEFS looks forward to working with Members, stakeholders and partners – towards a resilient and sustainable sector and sustainable places for the future, amidst the economic and environmental challenges ahead. Hazel Johnson, Director of BEFS, said: “We are extremely grateful to Historic Environment Scotland for this renewed investment and continued commitment to a strategic and partnership led approach and look forward to working together over the next three years, towards a resilient historic environment and positive outcomes for Scotland’s people and places. This funding will allow us to build, strengthen, and deepen BEFS impact and ability to deliver across all areas of our work, working closely with BEFS Members and the wider sector.”

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow:

Gail Williamson, Grants Operations Manager at HES, said,
“We are proud to support the historic environment sector through our Partnership Fund award to BEFS. By advocating for the historic environment and engaging with policy initiatives on behalf of the sector, BEFS is one of the keystones of Scotland’s built heritage. Our ongoing partnership enhances our individual efforts, delivering greater benefits through effective collaboration. We are pleased to continue our work with them and support the delivery of Our Past, Our Future, Scotland’s national strategy for the historic environment.”

For further information visit: https://www.historicenvironment.scot/

18 March 2025
The Laundry Building News, Crichton Estate, Dumfries
Design: O’DonnellBrown, Glasgow, in collaboration with White Arkitekter, Sweden
Scottish Women’s Institutes and The Crichton Trust have announced plans for ‘The Laundry’. They plan to turn the single-storey property into a nationally-significant Visitor Learning Centre that will become a global hub for crafts, heritage, and skills and showcase the rich history of rural Scotland.
Dumfries Architecture

13 February 2025
Historic Environment Scotland Digital Portal News
trove.scot Historic Environment Scotland digital portal
Explore millions of records online as Historic Environment Scotland (HES) unveils new website to access its collections, archives, images and information.

24 January 2025
Scottish Retrofit Work VAT Penalty

In the UK we have some of the oldest building stock in the Western world. Conversely, Scotland also has some of the most ambitious carbon reduction targets, with the Scottish Government having set out its commitment to hit net zero by 2045, five years earlier than the rest of the UK:
Scottish Retrofit Work VAT