This full colour beautifully illustrated book details the challenges presented by the brief and the site, and Reiach and Hall have rationalised their design philosophy and architectural ambitions for presentation to a wider audience.

The building is located on heavily contaminated ground with institutional and residential neighbours, and open views, making it highly visible from the Links and the Coast Road. A further challenge was to address the huge spaces and spans required to accommodate a full sized indoor football pitch, running lanes, long and triple jump, high jump and pole vault, fitness studios and multi-purpose games halls. Observing that the sports industry has generally pioneered uses of new materials in clothing, shoes etc. Reiach and Hall Architects advocate similar enthusiasm for new materials in sports buildings.

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This eagerly anticipated and richly illustrated 304 page biography of Mackintosh, by RIAS honorary Fellow James Macaulay, is an essential and beautiful addition to the Mackintosh canon and to architectural history.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh was Scotland’s greatest architect and arguably one of the world’s most admired. With a few bold and innovative structures—the Glasgow School of Art and Hill House among them—he had a profound influence on art and architecture at the turn of the twentieth century. Like Wright, Mackintosh designed in totality, down to the furniture and fabrics used in his structures, and he was influenced by the Japanese, particularly in the simplicity of his designs and themes from nature.

This book analyses polemically the ways in which contemporary market-led globalisation has fragmented and debased the Scottish urban enbironment, creating Clone City - the product of uncontrolled, mass-produced urbanisation.

This is the second title in Malcolm Cant's Pictorial Edinburgh Series. It shows Edinburgh people at work and play from the late nineteenth century to the present day. It forms a photographic record of aspects of the City which are in danger of being lost forever from the public domain.

This is a companion to The Paix Machine which was published by the autor in 1996. Like its predecessor Hale Ir Sindries is written in whole-hearted Scots, and aims to extend the scope of the language. The volume is a novel in three parts, part autobiography, but with a dash of 'ripping yarn'.

This beautiful book of colour photographs documents and celebrates the red sandstone buildings of Edinburgh, Leith and Portobello. Much of this legacy was constructed from the 1880s to the early 1900s when the availability of this quarried stone from the Dumfries and Annan regions inspired the architecture of our capital city and other conurbations in Scotland.

The completion of the new Stobhill Hospital project in Glasgow has stimulated Reiach and Hall Architects to produce this book comprising six essays, to capitalise on their experience and contacts gained through the project. In his foreword, architect Andy Law notes that students at the Mackintosh School of Architecture in 1984 were dissuaded from studying hospitals as “the architect was deemed to have little creative control”.

The book fulfils its declared ambition to present an interesting conversation on issues surrounding healthcare architecture, rather than a guide to hospital design. Sparse graphics and  black and white photography throughout is tasteful, occasionally self-conscious, but always thoughtful and relevant.

Comprehensive indexes and an illustrated glossary that includes many Scottish terms turn these indispensable travelling companions into accessible reference works.

The Buildings of Scotland, founded by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner and Colin McWilliam will, when complete, guide the reader to all buildings of significance in Scotland. This volume covers the vast area of the Highland region, the Western Isles, Orkney and Shetland and highlights buildings and monuments as varied as its landscapes: brochs, cairns and ceremonial settings of standing stones; cathedrals and abbeys, both medieval and Victorian; churches of every period and denomination, their interiors and graveyards often housing unexpected delights.

The Buildings of Scotland, founded by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner and Colin McWilliam will, when complete, guide the reader to all buildings of significance in Scotland. The first volume to be published in the series covering Scotland, Lothian boasts some of Scotland's most picturesque villages and fine Georgian towns, but its architectural history goes back to the twelfth century. The introduction of monastic orders and the establishment of the parish churches has left examples at Dalmeny and Tyninghame. Lothian also has fine church buildings of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries while schisms within the Reformed religion are reflected in a variety of lesser churches.

The Buildings of Scotland, founded by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner and Colin McWilliam will, when complete, guide the reader to all buildings of significance in Scotland. This gazetteer describes and interprets buildings and developments of all dates and kinds, from ancient brochs and Roman forts to medieval abbeys and castles, classical country houses, Victorian churches, farms and factories, and twentieth-century tower blocks. An introduction explains the broader context, while maps, plans and a central section of over a hundred photographs bring the buildings into closer focus.