Hoskins Architects, one of the UK’s leading design practices based in Glasgow and Berlin, is currently looking for people to fill the following positions in our Glasgow studio.

Communications Manager (Glasgow)

Our practice is a busy and creative environment with a talented team that’s growing, and an award winning portfolio of projects across a whole range of sectors. We’re looking for the right person to help us build on that success by managing and coordinating all our communications with others outside the practice.

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Part II qualified graduates, and Architects (1 to 3 years qualified)  (Glasgow)

We are also looking for Part II graduates and architects with 1-3 years post qualification experience to join the team in Glasgow.

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Summer placement  (Glasgow)

We are also looking for a summer student to undertake 4 weeks’ worth of graphics layout work. This role would suit an undergraduate student, and knowledge of Adobe indesign would be essential.

The keys to Aberdeen Art Gallery have been formally handed over to contractors McLaughlin and Harvey of Belfast with work now under way on the £30million redevelopment.

The redevelopment will see the transformation of the Art Gallery, Cowdray Hall and Memorial Hall through significant investment in the fabric of the buildings, new exhibition and display galleries and improved facilities for visitors. 

The project also involves the creation of new educational facilities to create opportunities for all to learn more about the arts, and the planned sensitive upgrading of the Cowdray Hall will create a fine new performance space for audiences and performers.

The Memorial Hall will also be carefully treated to reflect both its role as a space for quiet contemplation and as a civic space to honour the sacrifices made on behalf of the community.

The programme for the construction and fit-out works to the Art Gallery and Cowdray Hall will enable the buildings to re-open in 2017.

Aberdeen City Council’s Deputy Leader Councillor Marie Boulton said:  “This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to achieve something really special for Aberdeen and by rejuvenating and improving these much loved buildings, we will create a world-class cultural centre which will celebrate art and music for all.”
To learn more about the project visit the Hoskins Architects website and the project blog at www.inspiringartandmusic.tumblr.com

The refurbishment of the Berlin Library progressed this month with the start of building works on site. In 2014, Hoskins Architects won an invited competition to redesign the public areas of the Berlin City Library, including the foyer space, reception desks, press area and a new café bar. The proposed design is based on the historic character of the building, with clear zoning and new architectural interventions designed to complement the historic interior. The building will remain open during the refurbishment period with completion planned for July 2015. 

Eastwood Health & Care Centre is taking shape as the main structural steel is erected.

The new Eastwood Health and Care Centre is a development of a reference design we completed for hub West Scotland.  The centre is to be occupied by East Renfrewshire Council and Greater Glasgow and Clyde NHS. Flexibility and innovation in layout and construction were developed through consultation with a wide range of groups.

The three storey building is arranged around two external courtyards, allowing a high level of natural daylight and ventilation throughout the building. The ground floor will accommodate a series of bookable rooms as well as facilities to support third sector services and out of hours community use. Four GP practices will be located on the first floor with the reception desks and waiting areas organized around the central atrium with views out to the courtyards as well as overlooking the activity in the main foyer below.  The second floor will be the headquarters of the East Renfrewshire Community Health and Care Partnership and incorporates the latest agile working practices.

We are delighted to reach a major milestone in the redevelopment of The Registers with our Planning Application being submitted on Friday.    

We were appointed by Chis Stewart Group to develop proposals for the comprehensive redevelopment of an under-utilized area and bring new life to existing redundant buildings and the surrounding lanes.  This high quality mixed use development sits on a prominent urban site in the heart of Edinburgh’s New Town World Heritage Site and Conservation Area.  The project involves the redevelopment of 4 existing buildings that front onto South St Andrew Street and West Register Street,  and the surrounding ‘lanes’, and has a significant presence on the south east corner of St Andrew Square. 

The site poses the considerable challenge of meeting the requirements of Grade-A office space and high quality restaurant, café, bar, and retail units, while knitting the building into a complex historic setting and sensitively reveals the fine details a listed Venetian Gothic warehouse that sits within the site.  New build elements responds to the scale, proportion and character of adjacent buildings, streets and lanes, with natural stone cladding broken with precast concrete bands. This proposal provides a comprehensive and considered strategy for the site in its wider context.

Spirits are high on the Croft One site as our design for a new home, on one of our most beautiful sites, takes shape.  Based on passivhaus house principles with an efficient form, air-tight construction and detailing to minimise cold bridging these sustainable principles have been combined with sensitivity to its surroundings to produce a comfortable contemporary home.