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Summer 2008 |
Awards
The Saltire Centre, Caledonian University, Glasgow
Awards:
RIBA Award
Civic Trust Award
The Saltire Centre was completed and handed over to Glasgow Caledonian University in December 2005. This building comprises 10,500ft2 of 21st century library facilities including multi-use exhibition and meeting space on the ground floor, staff and office areas at first floor and learning areas at second – fourth floor levels.
The facilities in the learning areas include remote controlled compact shelving for book access, hard wired cabling and wireless installation for internet access.
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St. Vincent Place, Edinburgh
Awards:
Civic Trust Award
CBA were appointed by AMA (New Town) Ltd. to undertake Employer’s Agent Services for this £14 million Shell Development which comprised the construction of an underground car park to provide 166 spaces, and a six storey residential / office block to shell standard for fitting out under a separate contract with a crescent of four 6/7 storey residential blocks constructed over the underground car park to shell standard for fitting out under a separate contract. |
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Streetscape works to the in-situ concrete top car park deck, comprising hard landscaping and associated soft landscaping, street lighting and drainage installations.
Clydesdale Bank Exchange, Glasgow
Awards:
2005 Scottish Property Awards Commercial Development
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Clydesdale Bank have celebrated their new headquarter office building by issuing a specially commissioned £20 note featuring the building. CBA provided QS Services.
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Dakota Hotel, Eurocentral
Awards:
Conde Nast Traveller Hot List 2005
Winner of Most Stylish Hotel in Scotland Award 2006
Best Hotel Bar 2007
2007 Top 10 Restaurants
Hotel restaurant of the year 2008
Scottish restaurant of the year 2008 |
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Dakota is part of Ken McCulloch’s unique ‘Dakota’ brand with future hotels planned for throughout the UK.
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Maggie’s Centre, Kirkcaldy
Awards:
American Institute of Architects UK Chapter Excellence in Design
CBA were appointed by Maggie Keswick Jencks Cancer Caring Centres Trust to provide full quantity surveying services for the £1.35 million Cancer Caring Centre within the grounds of the Victoria Hospital at Kirkcaldy, Fife.
The Fife Maggie’s Centre was designed by Zaha Hadid and is an angular single storey building perched above a hollow with inclined external walls and cantilevered roof.
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Internally the spaces are formed with curved walls and glazed screens. The Fife Maggie’s Centre has been awarded prestigious American Institute of Architects UK Chapter Excellence in Design Award and shortlisted for the RIAS Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland Award 2007 and nominated for the Leaf Awards Best New Build.
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