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  • ABOVE ADVENTURE HAS SUCCESSFULLY RESCUED a former church in Kilmarnock and brought it back to use as a climbing and bouldering centre. The completion of this £4million project represents the culminati...

  • In an incredible milestone for the practice, we are elated to announce that over the past 2 weeks, we have won awards for 4 different projects! We are very proud of the dedicated work our team has put...

  • John Gilbert Architects is delighted to receive the Glasgow Institute of Architects Sustainability Award 2022 on behalf of the Niddrie Road project team. The Glasgow Institute of Architects (GIA) Desi...

  • In what has become office tradition, JGA takes a weekend away to collectively discuss office strategy and long-term ambitions and goals. This year, we spent Halloween weekend at Tomintoul, a small, ru...

  • At the start of September 2022, John Gilbert Architects has turned 30 years old. To mark the occasion, the office has planted a grove of 30 trees as part of a Highland rewilding project and will be ho...

  • A group of Glasgow Architects are offering free running tours of Glasgow during COP26, for delegates, visitors and locals, highlighting where the city is transitioning towards Net Zero. Initiatied by ...

  • John Gilbert Architects remains open for business as usual.  Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our work and projects, we have modified our working practices. All our work is in line with a...

  • A total of 32 mid-market rent flats are set to transform a vacant site located on the corner of Little Dovehill and Bell Street. Designed by John Gilbert Architects, the homes will be built by Glasgow...

  • We are delighted to have handed over St Boswells Passivhoos to Eildon Housing Association and their tenants. This short film introduces the St Boswells Passivhoos project, the first of a series of Pas...

  • We are delighted to have handed over the Closeburn Passivhoos development to Nith Valley Leaf Trust and their tenants. This short film introduces  the Closeburn Passivhoos project, first community-own...

  • We would like to use this platform to belatedly commemorate International Women’s Day – as most will know the official day was on the 8th March however we feel that it is important to promote women’s ...

  • It’s election time again – politicians promising to make the world better for all, grabbing headlines and publishing manifestos. There are some clear manifesto policies that I see as a minimum f...

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  • Passivhaus is usually thought of as an energy efficiency approach, but it’s really about much more than that. A Passivhaus building confers considerable physical and mental health benefits on it...

  • As we approach the end of 2022, we look back on the successes of John Gilbert Architects’ 30th year in business. We have increased our strength with Rupert joining as associate director and Chris retu...

  • In what has become office tradition, JGA takes a weekend away to collectively discuss office strategy and long-term ambitions and goals. This year, we spent Halloween weekend at Tomintoul, a small, ru...

  • It is irrefutable that the construction of the M8 motorway is of major historical importance to the City of Glasgow. Vast swathes of the city were cleared to make way for the wider motorway network, w...

  • The recent events in the US, and elsewhere, following the death of George Floyd have been both frightening and hopeful. As a group of people we have all been moved, and although it’s not easy to know ...

  • Our Sustainable Renovation Guide was published in late 2018 and discussed the principles of a more holistic approach to retrofit along with a number of practical examples. In 2019, John Gilbert Archit...

  • John Gilbert Architects and our Building Performance service, Hab-Lab fully support the Architects Journal RetroFirst campaign. The scale of the climate emergency challenge requires meaningful retrofi...

  •   Walking home today, I passed some roadworkers who were renewing the road surface. The contractors strap line being “Safe in the Knowledge”. However the firm clearly didn’t have the knowledge, o...

  • On 4th June 2019 the Scottish Government’s Working Group on Tenement Maintenance published their final recommendations for legislation to be introduced over the coming years to tackle the maintenance ...

  • John Gilbert Architects is delighted to announce an exhibition and series of events to celebrate our 25th anniversary. Throughout April, May and June 2018 we are hosting an exhibition and talks which ...

  • I think that one of the benefits of age is that you see how things change over a period of time. It seems no time at all since I was 40 and yet I have grown used to how I have weathered. The body does...

  • John Gilbert reflects on Royal Incorporation of Chartered Surveyors’ (RICS) report Tenement Health Check Policy which aims to raise the issue of lack of maintenance in Scotland’s tenemental hous...

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