Architecture

With access to the best architecture practices in the country, read expert advice and seek out the latest trends here. Award-winning projects photographed beautifully will help you plan for your own dream build or serve to showcase the breadth of awe-inspiring architecture and design work taking place at home, and further afield.

Crew Architects unites light and dark in this Edinburgh project

This was a beautiful house with a beautiful garden – but there was no connection between the two. Now, with an extension and a new layout, the two parts of this Edinburgh home are united at last

How one dad transformed his tenement flat into an award-winning family home

£45,000 was all architect David Brotherton needed to transform this tenement flat into an award-winning family home Words Kirsty Feerick Photography phthalo studio When David Brotherton found...

V&A Dundee celebrates Scottish architect Kathryn Findlay

Scottish architect Kathryn Findlay is being celebrated at the V&A Dundee after making history as one of the country’s top designers.

Inside five historic buildings up for Scottish Design Awards 2026

Five landmarks are in the spotlight for their significant conservation efforts, here is how they have stood the test of time

This 200-year-old manor house effortlessly straddles past and future

Inside the Georgian home of an award-winning preserve-maker, which has been made timeless by the addition of a stylish, highly functional extension

This reshaped Victorian house is a far cry from its sandstone cottage beginnings

This Victorian house has been reshaped many times over the years. Now, finally, it’s not too big and not too small, but just right for its happy owners

This converted steading is party central for its Perthshire owners

A calm, peaceful rural idyll? Yes, but only some of the time. This converted steading is also party central for its lucky owners and their wider family

This 19th-century terraced home could teach us a few things about the theory of evolution

Insulated, decarbonised and with a green roof and solar panels, this old house truly reflects the theory of evolution

A curved extension transforms this sumptuous Arts & Crafts villa

How do you extend a venerable home, designed by revered architects a century ago? First, you have to get into their heads…

A careful makeover has lifted this fine Playfair property out of its dingy hotel past

Look inside this now elegant Edinburgh property designed by Helen Lucas Architects
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