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Hoskins ceases trading in UK and shuts Glasgow office
Hoskins Architects has shut down its UK operations and closed its Glasgow office, blaming project delays and a ‘significant outstanding six-figure debt’ owed by a client
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News stories about and completed buildings by Hoskins Architects
Revealed: finalists’ designs in contest for £15m Dumfries heritage centre
The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) has revealed the concept proposals by the five finalists vying to design a £15 million cultural hub at the Crichton, a former psychiatric hospital in Dumfries
Hoskins Architects switches to employee ownership
Glasgow and Berlin-based practice Hoskins Architects has handed ownership of the practice to its employees
Case study: Strawberry Field by Hoskins Architects
This 1,360m2 visitor and training centre for young people with learning disabilities at Strawberry Field in Liverpool consists of a lightweight steel structure sitting on a solid plinth with a simple, oversailing roof – all designed for deconstruction. Photography by Gillian Hayes
‘Outstanding’ retrofit named Scotland’s best new building of 2021
Hoskins Architects’ decade-long overhaul of Aberdeen Art Gallery has won the 2021 Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland Award
Hoskins creates mixed-use development in central Edinburgh
The scheme, on a corner of St Andrew’s Square, comprises 5,570m2 of Grade-A office accommodation above a restaurant, café, bar and shops
Any offers? Edinburgh Royal High School goes on open market
The City of Edinburgh Council has officially put the Category A-listed Royal High School back onto the open market, potentially starting a bidding war for the troubled site
Developer behind rejected Edinburgh hotel plans vows to try again
The developer behind rejected plans to convert Edinburgh’s Royal High School building into a hotel has vowed to put forward a ‘more modest’ proposal for the site
Ministers reject Hoskins’ controversial hotel plans for Edinburgh’s Calton Hill
Scottish ministers have rejected proposals by Hoskins Architects to turn Thomas Hamilton’s Category A-listed Neoclassical Royal High School in Edinburgh into a hotel
Hoskins’ Scottish National Gallery revamp faces more delays after asbestos discovery
Hoskins Architects’ revamp of the Scottish National Gallery has been delayed again after ‘unexpected defects’ including asbestos were found in some of the existing buildings