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’
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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.
Over the last year, we have been working with the Isle of Kerrera Development Trust to produce a Feasibility study investigating buying and converting the former school on the island to a much needed Community space. The proposals include the renovation of the school, a new auxiliary building and a modern bothy for artist residencies.
We are delighted that The Scottish Fund Fund has awarded full funding for the Community of Kerrera to purchase the school building from Argyll and Bute Council.
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’
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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.