Annular Archive – Places – Britain – Scotland

2018

The Tenderness of Wood

Page\Park Architects and Carpenter Oak & Woodland rework timber for their Inverness Maggies Centre

In Fourth Door Review 7 – 2005 – A Design with Care piece (this article is not available in Annular Archive)

2018

Shades of Green

A cultural history of Sitka Spruce by Ruth Tittensor. Book review by Bernard Planterose.

In Unstructured 9

2012

Scottish Independence

Glasgow’s NORD reinvent Highlands Vernacular

In Blueprint 313 – April 2012

2008

All in the frame: the twenty-first century timber office

Crafted from Douglas fir Page\Park’s Loch Lomond & Trossachs National Park Headquarters is Scotland’s largest new timber frame building

In Annular – A version of this piece appeared in Green Building magazine, spring 2008 (vol 17, no 4.) – A shorter building profile was also published in the Architects’ Journal (12th June 2008) pdf

2008

Designing the Future Forest

How Scotland’s future forestry can green building with native trees, by Bernard Planterose

Originally one of the essays for the Building Biographies exhibition, curated by Oliver Lowenstein and The Lighthouse, Glasgow 2008/9

2007

Return of the Forests

Wood research in Scotland, Napier University’s Centre for Timber Engineering, Reforesting Scotland and Malcolm Chrisp and Charles Gulland’s roundwood experiments

In Annular – part 3 of a series on the return of timber to Scottish building and architectural culture –A version of this piece appeared in Building for a Future vol 16 no 2, Winter/Spring, 2006-7

2007

ECOSpace at Lauder College, Fife

After the Scottish Parliament Building RMJM’s timber education continues

In Annular – part 1 of a series on the return of timber to Scottish building and architectural culture –A version of this piece appeared in Building for a Future vol 16 no 2, Winter/Spring, 2006-7


2007

Timber and the new Highlands regionalism

Dualchas, Neil Sutherland, Gaia Group, Gokay Devici, and Bernard Planterose’s projects breathing new life into a contemporary Highlands architecture

In Annular –  part 2 a series on the return of timber to Scottish building and architectural culture – A version of this piece appeared in Building for a Future vol 16 no 2, Winter/Spring, 2006-7

2005

Gehry@Maggies Dundee

Frank Gehry interview on his Maggies Centre building

In Fourth Door Review 7 – 2005 – A Design with Care piece (this article is not available in Annular Archive)

2000

The Dreamlife of Trees

Trees for Life and Reforesting Scotland are part of a wider homegrown reforestation movement, symbolised by the return of the Caledonian Forest

In Fourth Door Review 4 – 2000 (this article is not available in Annular Archive)