Housing Design Awards Shortlist Announced

Rebecca Hubbard
Posted: Thursday, July 8, 2010 10:12 am

Housing Design Awards Shortlist Announced

Ravelstone Terrace by Allan Murray Architects
It seems that not all design awards schemes are struggling with dwindling submission numbers in the current economic climate… 

 
The Saltire Society Housing Design Awards - the oldest awards scheme of its kind in the country - has today unveiled a diverse, nationwide shortlist of projects for its 2010 competition.                                          
 
The society also announced a recession-beating 100% increase in entries over last year’s scheme. 
 
After a major re-vamp of the awards - which included enlisting world architect of the year John McAslan as the inaugural guest chairman - the shortlist contains several already lauded projects; including Colin Andrew Smith’s ‘Rock House’ at Kenmore in Perthshire, Konishi-Gaffney’s ‘Japanese House’ in Edinburgh, and Skye architects Rural Design’s private house at Fiscavaig.   
 
Despite only one project making the shortlist for the ‘small scale housing development’ section (Gokay Deveci Architect’s ‘Tigh Na Cladach’ in Dunoon), the runners in the’ large scale housing development category include Allan Murray Architects’ redevelopment of a prominent 1960’s office block at Ravelston Terrace in Edinburgh,  Anderson Bell Christie’s contemporary city terraces at Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth Square, and two competing schemes by different architects at the Craigmillar development in Edinburgh.  
 
Inaugural guest chair of the awards John McAslan welcomed the increase in submissions, and was keen to note the extremely high quality of work on this year's Saltire shortlist...  “I am absolutely delighted that the Saltire Awards have managed to increase their entry numbers so dramatically over previous years; and also with the exceptionally high standard of work submitted this year.
“There are some really fine examples of contemporary housing design represented on the shortlist, particularly in the new build and renovation / alteration sections.  As a Scot, I am greatly encouraged to find that even in difficult times this kind of work is still being commissioned and built throughout Scotland.”

The full 2010 Saltire Society Housing Design Awards Shortlist is as follows: 
 
‘Large Scale Housing Development’ 
1)  Ravelston Terrace Apartments, Edinburgh (Allan Murray Architects).
2)  Inglis Point, McEwan Place, Edinburgh (Oberlander Architects LLP).
3)  Wauchope Square Phase One, Craigmillar, Edinburgh (Page/Park Architects).
4)  Queen Elizabeth Square, Rutherglen, Glasgow (Anderson Bell Christie).
5)  Wauchope Square Phase Two,  Craigmillar, Edinburgh (Elder and Cannon Architects).
6)  Queen’s Gate, Clydebank (Elder and Cannon Architects). 
7)  Microloft, Cellar Bank, Edinburgh (Studio DuB).
8)  Lochrin Development, Edinburgh, (Michael Laird Architects). 

‘Small Scale Housing Development’ 
1) Tigh-na-Cladach (House by the Shore), Dunoon (Gokay Deveci Architect). 

‘Private Dwelling  - New Build’.
1) Merchiston Villa, Edinburgh (Allan Murray Architects). 
2) Rock House, Kenmore, Perthshire (Colin Andrew Smith Architect). 
3) Japanese House, Edinburgh (Konishi-Gaffney Architects). 
4) 15 Fiscavaig, Fiscavaig, Isle of Skye (Rural Design).  
5) The Long House, Husabost, Isle of Skye (Rural Design). 
6) Bookend Cottage, Tobermory (Roxburgh McEwan Architects).
7) Tigh Na Dobhran, Arduaine, Argyll (Studio KAP Architects).
8) Tigh Na Gcearc, Lochwinnoch (Nord Architecture Ltd).
9) Frisealach, Lochailort (Helen Lucas Architects). 

‘Alterations, Renovations and Extensions’. 
1) Russell Place, Edinburgh (Arcade Architects).
2) Circus Lane, Edinburgh (WT Architects).
3) Clocktower, Dundee (Archial Architects Ltd).
4) Bulloch House, Dungoyne (Studio KAP Architects).
5) Sutherland Avenue, Pollocksheilds (Studio KAP Architects).
6) Auchoish Steading, Lochgilphead (Studio KAP Architects).

The Saltire Society Housing Design Awards awards seek to recognise and reward excellence and innovation in the best house-building, master-planning, and housing-design in Scotland.  

The awards have been existence since 1937, and are supported by The Scottish Govt., Homes for Scotland, The Chartered Institute of Builders, and Architecture and Design Scotland – which will sponsor two awards categories.  

The awards will be announced at a ceremony in the Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh on 14th September.