Ann Nisbet Studio

We were delighted that our Black Zinc clad mobile house in the Isle of Skye was shortlisted for a GIA Award in the Small Works Category.

Our timber clad house and outbuilding in the Isle of Arran commences on site

The house is located on the former site of  an historic Clachan and more recently a series of farm buildings. The new house is located within the stone ruins of the former dwellings, emulating the form, proportions and story of the former clachan.

Our Newhouse of Auchengree project features in this month’s House Beautiful Magazine. It’s lovely to see this project in print again.

Article by Caroline Ednie and photographs by David Barbour

Our mobile micro home on the Isle of Skye has been shortlisted for a Scottish Design Award for Best Residential Building. We are delighted for our client Ali and the rest of the team that were involved in the project.

You can read more about the project here

Our Multi Generational Farmhouse has started on site this month. Located in Angus, this new farmhouse has been designed to accommodate three generations of the same family. The form and design of the house references the  forms and characteristics of traditional farm buildings in this specific area of Angus.

The building is clad in zinc and larch cladding. The project employs a fabric first approach, with both buildings heated via a ground source heat pump.

We’re looking forward to seeing this project take shape over the next few months.

Our Mobile Micro Home on the Isle of Skye features in this month’s Grand Designs Magazine (April edition).’A Small Wonder: This Tiny Home was the eco-friendly solution to building on difficult terrain and to a tight budget’

You can read more here

We were delighted to be invited to talk to the Architecture students at the GSA  about our project that formed part of the Architecture Fringe Festival 2019, which looked at ideas relating to rejuvenating and re purposing Scotland’s abandoned coastal swimming pools  and our on going research into Scotland’s historic coastal and tidal pools.

We are looking forward to visiting PIttenween tidal pool with the students in the following few weeks and see their projects develop over the next couple of months.

The Bantaskin Street Project has been shortlisted for RTPI Awards: Glasgow City Council’s Self Build Pilot, is in the running for the Excellence in Planning to Deliver Homes – category at the RTPI Awards for Planning Excellence 2020. Here’s our design for a two bedroom house at Plot 3 Bantaskin Street.

We are delighted that our renovation project on Albert Drive was awarded a commendation at the GIA Architecture Awards on Friday night.

The project is located on the ground floor of a converted sandstone villa within the Pollokshields’ Conservation Area, this project created a light, open plan kitchen forming a new central hub of a family home more images here

Congratulations to our Client’s Katy and Nick and the rest of the team involved in the project.

Ann Nisbet Studio were asked to take part in the Architectural Fringe Festival’s Re Types Exhibition and explore adaptive re-purposing of an imagined existing building or structure. The studio’s project explores ideas relating to rejuvenating and re purposing Scotland’s abandoned coastal swimming pools and comments on local democracy, land ownership, social isolation and collective bathing.

Re Types Exhibition takes place at the Exhibition Lighthouse Gallery 7 – 23 June 2019. More info Click Here

Delighted to give the keynote speech alongside Brian McGinlay at the AJ100  lunch in Glasgow. We shared our research and initial ideas from our collaborative Dundashill custom build housing project and also our Bantaskin Street Project.

Delighted to be invited to give a guest lecture at the 57°10 Lecture Series at the Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and the Built Environment in Aberdeen.

Ann was also interviewed for the 57°10 Pod cast, which you can listen to here

For the second year, Ann was invited to give a guest lecture about the studio’s work to Postgraduate Architecture students from the Centre for Alternative Technology in Wales.

The students also visited our Newhouse of Auchengree project in North Ayrshire. Thank you to our clients for generously inviting us all for a tour.

On the 16 January 2018, Ann will be giving a guest lecture at School of Architecture Bremen as part of their winter architecture lecture series.

Ann Nisbet Studio has been named by the Architects’ Journal as one of the five firms to watch in 2018 

‘The studio hit the headlines following the completion of its widely praised Newhouse of Auchengree in North Ayrshire. The zinc-clad farmhouse went on to win an RIBA National Award; a RIAS Architecture Award; and a Scottish Design Award for the Best Residential Building. It also appeared on Channel 4 last month after being shortlisted for RIBA House of the Year and the Doolan Award’

You can read more here

Delighted that our Newhouse of Auchengree project has been longlisted for the Royal Insitute of British Architect’s House of the Year Award.

The RIBA House of the Year is awarded to the best new house designed by an architect in the UK. The shortlist and winner will be announced later this year as part of Grand Designs: House of the Year, a special four-part Channel 4 TV series presented by Kevin McCloud.