Closing 2024 on a high

The Scottish Property Awards recognise the best new commercial and public buildings in Scotland and are always well contested.

Both our 4D Cellular Medicine Building at the Institute of Genetics & Cancer and the Crop Innovation Centre at the James Hutton Institute are shortlisted for the Architectural Excellence Award for Commercial Use, while our Lost Shore Surf Resort Hub Buildings project is shortlisted for the Architectural Excellence Award for Public Use.

We’re incredibly proud of these three projects which have all completed in 2024.

Some six years after being appointed as Masterplanners and Architects for James Hutton’s new crop research facilities, we joined our design team colleagues, the James Hutton team, the Secretary of State for Scotland, Ian Murray and Scotland’s First Minister, John Swinney, to celebrate the official opening of the striking new buildings back in October .

The project realised a fabulous opportunity to rationalise the site, with the new Crop Innovation Centre providing a campus focal point, alongside new collaborative workspaces including ‘superlab’ spaces to support the groundbreaking research housed within.

Earlier in the year we celebrated a significant milestone in our longstanding relationship with the University of Edinburgh as the new 4D Cellular Medicine Building at the Institute of Genetics & Cancer officially opened, fifteen years on from the first of three phases of redevelopment.

We’re incredibly proud of the role our team played in delivering this major masterplan which has seen a refurbishment of the original space, the creation of new research, office and collaboration space and this final major extension, all of which have shaped the way for leading edge research.

And closing off the year we saw the much-anticipated opening of the Lost Shore Surf Resort which began its life as Europe’s largest inland surfing destination. The resort’s three distinct hub buildings deliver on a brief that set out to create a building solution which delivers an amazing experience in itself and has enabled what we believe will be a truly positive and memorable visit for staff and visitors.  

We wait with bated breath for the awards ceremony in February. Congratulations to everyone involved in these fantastic projects. A wonderful way to end the year!