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Scottish election result could mean a greener built environment, say architects Scottish Parliament at Holyrood byEnric Miralles, Benedetta Tagliabue - Miralles Tagliabue EMBT and RMJM Scotland Architects in Scotland predict sustainability will be pushed further up the political agenda following the success of the Green Party in the recent Scottish elections The party won a record eight seats in the Scottish Parliament – its best-ever result – and looks set to become increasingly important in Scottish politics after the Scottish National Party (SNP) narrowly failed to win an outright majority. Advertisement As a minority government, Nicola Sturgeon’s SNP will need support from other parties – in particular the Green Party, which is also pro-independence – to pass through its proposed reforms and budgets. ....
Building study: Loader Monteith restores Peter Womersley’s High Sunderland The Glasgow-based practice, working with a team of conservation specialists, has restored this 1957 Modernist house with meticulous detail 23 February 2021 By Alan Dunlop. Photography by Gillian Hayes comment and share In 1955, Bernat and Margaret Klein knocked on the door of a house ‘floating above the trees’ near their home in West Yorkshire and asked for the name of the architect. The house was Farnley Hey, designed by Peter Womersley for his brother, John. Advertisement Farnley Hey’s floor-to-ceiling windows, its split-level interior, and the ‘flow’ of its spaces so impressed the Kleins that a week later they invited Womersley to design their home and studio. Their site was on a densely wooded, isolated plot near Selkirk in the Scottish Borders. Bernat Klein was to become an internationally renowned textile designer and Margaret a talented knitwear des ....