Scottish Housing, Residential Design Scotland, Property Development News, Architecture Photos
Scottish Housing : Residential Buildings Scotland
New Housebuilding in Scotland, UK – Building Links
post updated 4 September 2021
Scottish Housing Shortfall
Increase from existing 25,000 new houses per year to 35,000 demanded for Scotland. Communities & Sport Minister said the “current rate of new house building – almost 25,000 new houses last year – is simply inadequate”.
It’s essential the majority of this supply is located in dense developments on brownfield land; the planning system also requires immediate root & branch reform.
Latest Residential Development in Scotland
23 Mar 2017
Homes for Scotland Awards News
Homes for Scotland Awards
21 Feb 2013
St Andrews Housing, Fife, eastern Scotland
Design: Sutherland Hussey Architects
pictures from Sutherland Hussey architects
St Andrews Housing
Architectural competition to design a new housing development in this historic Scottish town. By inviting several firms to develop proposals, the Client’s ambition was to select a design that can provide high quality contemporary houses and apartments in the rich and complex conservation area.
Key contemporary Scottish Housing Project
photo © Andrew Lee
Homes for the Future
Scottish Housing Projects – Selection
Major Glasgow Housing masterplans
image from architects
Glasgow Harbour
Todlaw Supported Housing, Duns, Berwickshire
photo : Angus Bremner
Todlaw Housing
Cart Street Housing, Glasgow
photo © Keith Hunter
Cart Street housing
Springside, Edinburgh
image from architects
Springside Housing
Recent Glasgow Housing projects
Recent Edinburgh Housing projects
Donaldsons College redevelopment
New Street Edinburgh – Calton Gate
Scottish Housing – Background
Scottish housing stock generally varies from wee bungalows to sixties high rises; in the Highlands traditional crofts mingle with new properties which often look like they could be from anywhere ie non-indigenous. After the Second World War a massive housing construction commenced in Scotland (& across Europe) with slab blocks and tower blocks mostly located around the edges of the major cities such as Glasgow and Edinburgh, and in New Towns in the Central Belt such as Cumbernauld.
glasgow tower blocks – image © Adrian Welch
In the Seventies this major building programme stalled and low-scale dense
housing took its place, mainly built by private housing developers. Styling was generally regressive but in the Nineties some more contemporary Scottish housing emerged. Notable were the Homes for the Future scheme in Glasgow and the Slateford Green housing in Edinburgh. One-off houses such as those by Richard Murphy also encouraged a shift in thinking towards contemporary architecture.
glasgow tower blocks – image © AW
Tower Block
Modern Public Housing in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland (Paul Mellon Centre)
Stefan Muthesius, Miles Glendinning
Price varies
Hardcover 428 pages (1994) Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300054440
Glasgow Houses
Housing in Scotland – Selection, no images
George St & Broomlands St housing, Paisley, Renfrewshire
2003
Page & Park Architects
Housing development for Loretto Housing Association
Inchyra Place – housing, Grangemouth
2003
Page & Park Architects
50 houses for Loretto Housing Association
Stanley Mills – conversion + restoration, Stanley, Perth & Kinross
1996-2003
LDN Architects
A Listed
Converted to flats + houses for The Phoenix Trust
Victoria Parade residential development, Dunoon, Argyll & Bute
2003
Elder & Cannon
For Fyne Homes / Queens Cross Housing Association
Location: Scotland
Architecture in Scotland
Scottish Architecture Designs – chronological list
International Housing – Selection
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