DOOLAN PRIZE SHORT LIST IN ARCHITECTURE

Eleven projects short-listed for the Andrew Doolan Best Building Prize in Scotland Award—famously the largest architectural cash prize in the United Kingdom—have been announced, reports the Architects’ Journal_. An eclectic mix of projects, the contenders vying for the forty-two-thousand-dollar first prize range from Foster + Partners’ mixed-use Quartermile Development in Edinburgh to a family house overlooking Loch Melfort by Studio KAP. Organized by the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland, the contest is in its seventh year. Previous winners include the Scottish Parliament by EMBT/RMJM and Reiach and Hall’s Pier Arts Center in Stromness. The short-listed projects are Dawyck Botanic Garden Visitor Center, by Simpson and Brown; Hawick Corn Exchange restoration, by Gray Marshall and Associates; Quartermile Development, Edinburgh, by Foster + Partners; Castlemilk Stables revamp, by Elder and Cannon; Todlaw Supported Housing, by Oliver Chapman Architects; Culloden Visitor Center, by Gareth Hoskins Architects; Jordanhill School, by Elder and Cannon; Eden Court Theater, Inverness, by PagePark; Potterrow Development, Bristo Square, University of Edinburgh, by Bennetts Associates; Housing, Telford Drive, Edinburgh, by Gordon Murray + Alan Dunlop Architects; and Tigh na Dobhran, Arduine, Argyll, by Studio KAP. The winner will be announced on November 7 at a Scottish Parliament ceremony.