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New Town centre housing completes The first of our current high density town centre housing projects has been completed. Providing 31 flats on a site in the middle of Ayr the project is a low energy, low carbon str... View Article

Delighted to have heard our Grapes housing project for the All Roads Lead to Whithorn Trust has WON the affordable housing category at the Scottish Empty Homes Partnership Awards t... View Article

Conservation work to Carntyne Parish Church wins SPAB heritage award for APPL Delighted and surprised to have this church repair project as a winner with #SPAB John Betjeman Heritage award for Scotland. Carntyne Parish Church in the east end of Glasgow had ... View Article

Scottish Design Award for ARPL We were thrilled on Wednesday to win a Scottish Design Award for our masterplan work at Midsteeple Quarter in Dumfries. Working with the local community group we developed an innov... View Article

Our regeneration project in Dumfries is moving forward with the first phase Oven project being issued for tender. To coincide with this our client Midsteeple Quarter have released ... View Article

Ballymun re-visited A recent trip to Dublin gave Gordon Fleming the opportunity to re-visit our housing project in Ballymun for Dublin City Council. A warm sunny summers day brought out the bes... View Article

Dumfries Town Centre regeneration A competition-winning concept pioneered by ARPL Architects is to make its mark on Dumfries for the first time after planning approval was granted for a mixed-use develop... View Article

ARPL and Covid 19 The offices of ARPL are currently closed due to Government virus restrictions. We have suspended all travel and face to face meetings, with all construction work stopped and sites ... View Article

MAKING A SPLASH AT GLASGOW GREEN We are pleased to hear that our proposals for the repair and alterations of the West Boathouse on Glasgow Green has gained Planning Permission and Listed Building Consent. Our clie... View Article

ARPL in SEDA Sustainable Buildings Book We are very pleased to see our Colmonell Primary School included in the recent SEDA publication - 100 Sustainable Scottish Buildings. The school makes use of high insulation leve... View Article

ARPL win Dumfries Town Centre regeneration design competition The Glasgow Institute of Architects and The Stove Network, Dumfries have announced that ARPL Architects have won the design competition for ideas to regenerate the Mid-Steeple qu... View Article

ARPL Architects appointed for West Boathouse Glasgow Green ARPL have been selected as architects for the restoration of West Boathouse in Glasgow Green following a detailed tender process and interview carried out by the Glasgo... View Article

ARPL win Glasgow Institute of Architects Best Small Practice Award In this years Design Awards the Glasgow Institute of Architects have recognised ARPL Architects with the Best Small Practice Award for 2016. The Award, given only every fiv... View Article

Four ARPL projects selected as Civic Trust Finalists The Civic Trust Awards have announced the projects which have been chosen as regional finalists in the 2017 awards round. We are delighted that of the 12 projects recognised ... View Article

ARPL help rescue Georgian church belfry After two hundred years of exposure to the west coast weather, the belfry on the Parish Church on the Isle of Colonsay had reached a perilous state. Severely eroded stonework... View Article

New Belleisle Golf club completes ARPL are very happy that we have formally completed the new golf club house in Belleisle Park , Ayr for South Ayrshire Council. The new clubhouse building is in the form of t... View Article

ARPL UPGRADE OLDEST THEATRE IN SCOTLAND ARPL Architects have completed a £1.5m upgrade and expansion of the Theatre Royal in Dumfries , the oldest theatre in Scotland. Built in 1792 the theatre occupies a cor... View Article

SCHOOL COMPETITION SUCCESS ARPL Architects are delighted to have been shortlisted in an open international design competition for a new primary school in Dublin. Organised by the RIAI on behalf of the Depart... View Article

GRANT FUNDING SUCCESS FOR CHURCHES ARPL are delighted that two more churches have had Heritage Lottery Fund and Historic Scotland grant funding approval for conservation repairs. Stage 1 approval will allow us to d... View Article

ARPL win Kirkcudbright Art Gallery contest Following an open tender invited through Public Contracts Scotland website ARPL have been appointed to design the new £1.6m Art Gallery for Kirkcudbright Town Hall. The galle... View Article

ARPL success at GIA Design Awards 2014 The Glasgow Institute of Architects Annual design Awards have recognised ARPL's work at New Bridge Street in Ayr with a commendation for exemplary conservation work. The... View Article

NEW ASSOCIATE FOR ARPL Welcome to Martin Schlecter ARPL are pleased to welcome Martin who has joined the practice as an Associate. Martin who trained at Hull School of Architecture, was the last remaini... View Article

ARPL ARCHITECTS HELP TRANSFORM AYR'S PINK BUILDINGS The river crossing into Ayr has been transformed by the restoration of three Georgian tenements in New Bridge Street, the former "pink buildings". ARPL Architects have been w... View Article

Civic Trust Commendation for Dublin Design ARPL Architects are delighted that our Sillogue Housing project in Ballymun, Dublin, has been recognised at the 2014 Civic Trust Awards ceremony on March 7th. The project was one o... View Article

Top 20 national ranking for ARPL Architects ARPL Architects are delighted to be placed in the top 20 of nearly 600 architects practices in Scotland. In an assessment carried out by Urban Realm, the leading magazine for the ... View Article

ARPL obtain planning consent for oldest theatre in Scotland Planning Permission and Listed Building consent have been granted for ARPL's proposed upgrade of the Theatre Royal in Dumfries after detailed discussion with Dumfries and Gallo... View Article

PATRICK LORIMER APPOINTED AS CONSULTANT We wish to announce that in the 40th year of the practice's life, Patrick Lorimer has given up his directorship of ARPL Architects and will continue as an employee with the sta... View Article

ARPL achieves Passiv Haus Standards ARPL Architects have achieved one of the highest sustainable design accreditations in Europe from the Passiv Haus Institute in Germany. Following a period of study and examinations... View Article

IAIN'S A LIFESAVER We are very proud of ARPL architect Iain Wison, who has been selected again this year to compete in the national team in the World Lifesaving Championships in Canberra in Australia... View Article

RESTORATION OF NEW BRIDGE STREET The restoration of Ayr's finest Georgian town houses is due to start on site next week as the priority project in the Ayr THI. The Grade A listed pink buildings are a gateway ... View Article

NEW HOUSING COMPLETES IN BALLYMUN DUBLIN Tenants are now moving in to the first phase of completion of new housing as part of the Sillogue development, in the large Ballymun regeneration project to the North of Dublin. &n... View Article

CONSERVATION REPAIRS TO MOAT BRAE DUMFRIES Phase A of the conservation works to Moat Brae in Dumfries are now well under way. Following emergency temporary roofing carried out during 2012, ARPL are carrying out a prog... View Article

ARPL PRESENTATION AT DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION CONFERENCE IN DUBLIN Gordon Fleming, director at ARPL, has presented our designs for the new model secondary school in Tallaght to an international gathering of educationalists, head teachers, educatio... View Article

STATE OF THE ART RECORDING STUDIO COMPLETED ARPL Architects are delighted to have completed a new music recording studio for Prestwick Academy and South Ayrshire Council. Working closely with the school music department and ... View Article

CREATIVE SCOTLAND HELP RAISE THE CURTAIN IN AYR We are very pleased to hear that our assistance with the Ayr Gaiety Partnership has successfully gained funding from Creative Scotland towards a dynamic theatre and arts refurbishm... View Article

DUBLIN SCHOOL PRIZE A design for a 1000 pupil secondary school has emerged as the winner in an international design competition organised by the RIAI The competition was instigated by the Minister fo... View Article

PEAK SCIENTIFIC ARPL are pleased to report there is excitement at Peak Scientific headquaters at Inchinnan Business Park as their MD, Robin McGeachy, cuts the first sod for the start on a large ex... View Article

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