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James Howden's Engineering works is one of the last remaining Victorian heavy engineering works in Glasgow, and at the end of its life, this redbrick complex was the birthplace of the tunnel boring machines which dug out the Channel Tunnel. The company, now called Howden Group, is still in business but left their home of ninety years in Tradeston in 1988. …
Scottish Architecture 2007-06-27 05:31:00
Architects … the book-dealer shook his head wearily. As I picked a large monograph off a crowded shelf, he sighed. Business in architecture books is slow – that’s why I stock these – pointing to shelves of Folio Society and modern first editions. Why? Because, the book-dealer explained, architects don’t read books. Because they don’t read, they don’t need to buy …
Scottish Architecture 2007-06-27 05:31:00
Today is the Glorious 12th, when “Big Guns” from the south make a brief visit to Scotland, to give the local beasts both barrels … then retreat again, once they’ve had their sport. As a result, I was intrigued to read John McAslan’s piece on regeneration on the Architecture Scotland website. His views, which (despite his protests) could easily have been delivered …
Scottish Architecture 2007-06-27 05:31:00
A rickle of stones in the middle of nowhere – no power, no inside lavvy, no insulation, no comforts – what a draughty hole! But it can be a lifesaver nonetheless. People have touched Scotland more widely than we realise. The impression we leave on the landscape is deep and long-lasting, yet our footprints aren’t so widespread as they once were. Our …
Scottish Architecture 2007-06-27 05:31:00
I recently got a rare opportunity to see around Mortonhall Crematorium in Edinburgh, one of Basil Spence’s best-resolved buildings. As a result, this instalment of the blog is a photo-essay on this Modernist intimation of mortality, sited near the Braid Hills. Strangely, architecture magazines often used to feature photo-essays – “Zodiac” was particularly good at powerful black and white images telling …
Scottish Architecture 2007-06-27 05:31:00
After losing my passport and my wallet to a frisky gang on an Athenian tube, I thought I was stuck. The lady at the airport check-in shook her head ruefully – no ID means no way home. The financial implications of sorting it out were huge. “But I have a twin,” I said, pointing plaintively at Ali. “Aha” she replied. “This …
Scottish Architecture 2007-06-27 05:31:00
There is an inherent beauty in machines, partly because they take on life in a way that buildings never can. Mechanisms are really just tools created by us to overcome the challenges of the world – terrain, gravity, weather – and you could look on them as our puny attempts to impose order on a disorderly universe. As a child of …
Scottish Architecture 2007-06-27 05:31:00
Folk make many attempts to get closer to architecture– taking photographs, painstakingly restoring buildings, scouring the archives– yet in the end, we often focus on the creator, since we can apprehend the person more easily than the process of creation. The story of Pirie and Clyne’s partnership draws on the elements of a Victorian melodrama: precocious genius, an influential patron, a creative …
Scottish Architecture 2007-06-27 05:31:00
Sir Ian Wood?s proposal (11.11.08) to gift £50m of his own cash to create a new city-centre heart for Aberdeen by decking over Union Terrace Gardens has raised a lot controversy, not least its potential impact on the delivery of the dazzling and much needed new Peacock arts centre designed by international architects Brisac Gonzales. In its present form their design …
Scottish Architecture 2007-06-27 05:31:00
The real test of anything we build is not aesthetic, practical nor even economic – but what happens in an emergency. In extremis, after a serious fire or explosion, the structure must hold together long enough to allow people to escape. However, whether they get out safely, or not, is down to human nature as much as building design … vehicle …
Scottish Architecture 2007-06-26 03:07:00
Gordon Cullen was first and foremost a Scot, who worked all over the world as a designer and architectural writer, gaining a particular reputation for solving urban problems. By the time he returned to Scotland in the 1970’s to work in Aberdeen and Glasgow, he was an old man, afflicted with cataracts born of decades peering at his trademark pencil line …
Scottish Architecture 2007-06-26 03:07:00
My friend is getting mangled by the credit crunch. He’s built a couple of houses, can’t sell them, and the loan repayments are crippling him. There is plaintive despair in his voice, and his weight loss suggests restless nights. Meanwhile, the person largely responsible, a certain Gordon Brown, tucks in to eight-course dinners before telling us to be more careful when shopping. Tighten …
Scottish Architecture 2007-06-26 03:07:00
The media – of which I grudgingly accept this weblog is a small part – thrives on contention, scare-mongering and bogeymen. Issues which excite public feeling are its currency, and campaigning journalism sometimes generates stories which run for months. All the better, since as my grandfather used to say, “they ay need to find something to fill up the papers wi.” Missing …
Scottish Architecture 2007-06-16 19:01:00
Re-invention is only laudable if it adds something new and worthwhile. However, the architectural obsession with finding new and different ways of doing even the simplest thing recalls the forced product designs of the 1980’s. We suffered calculator watches; stereos with flashing LED’s, graphic equalisers and hundreds of buttons with obscure functions; and of course cars with talking, digital dashboards. In …
Scottish Architecture 2007-06-16 19:01:00
We are a Godfather. In the Thatcher sense, not the twin sense. Lara has had a wee lassie, and I’ve been given the honour. A lot of folk wouldn’t trust me with a Babysham never mind a baby, but my responsibility has been spelt out, and it’s one I’ll take seriously. “Neil”, said Lara. “You must do one thing. Make sure that Isabel …
Scottish Architecture 2007-06-16 19:01:00
Somewhere in our past, a lone kilted figure looks out over a herd of Highland cattle, knee deep in heather and thistles. Through the mist, the pipes skirl, a towerhouse glowers and a burn tumbles, brown with peaty water running off the moors. It’s a scene from a shortbread tin: this is the heritage which Walter Scott invented for us in …
Scottish Architecture 2007-06-05 03:33:00
Life contains many illustrations of highly improbable things happening. Here is just one, concerning the turkey. Every day for a thousand days (if it’s going to be a large bird for the table), the farmer feeds the turkey. What’s the turkey’s view of the future? It can only be one thing: food tomorrow. Rather like Pavlov’s dogs, the turkey knows that …
Scottish Architecture 2007-06-05 03:33:00
From the moment of its birth, Scotland was shaped by war. Our country was forged in battle by the great Pictish warrior kings – Onuist, Nechtan, Drosten – and victory over the Northumbrians over 1300 years ago created a Scottish nation with its heart in Strathmore, the Angus valley which separates Highland Scotland from the Lowlands. As a result, our architecture …
Scottish Architecture 2007-06-05 03:33:00
You may think that follies are throwbacks to the past. As an idea, they are out of time– but Universities have always prided themselves on being patrons of architecture, and sometimes their patronage leads to unexpected results. The Round and Square Towers, designed by Jeremy Dixon and Edward Jones, were the first stage in the expansion of Aberdeen's Robert Gordon University along …
Scottish Architecture 2007-06-05 03:33:00
I wanted to be able to head a football like I did when I was eighteen. That’s why my head was clamped rigid, lasers gunned in to my eyes, and a white-coated blond lady with an East-European accent flitted about me with a scalpel. The acrid laser-burn of lens matter filled my nostrils and I laughed and cried inside at the thought that …
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