Scotland today

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The 2 million pounds sterling Morgan Court building was designed by Ungless & Latimer Architects to provide living accommodation for 91 students studying at Edinburgh University. The 1.5 million pounds sterling St. John's Shopping Centre, Perth was designed by architectural firm Reiach and Hall. The remit was to renovate an existing shopping mall by use of innovative lighting and entrance use. The construction of a marketing suite at Edinburgh Zoo was constructed for the budget of 42,600 pounds sterling by architectural firm Smith Scott Mullan & Associates.

Services, Scotland, Buildings and facilities, Architectural firms, Architectural services, Reiach and Hall, Ungless & Latimer Architects, Smith Scott Mullan & Associates

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Reach for the sky

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Structural engineer and compulsive inventor Bryn Bird is a partner in the much-respected engineering company Whitby and Bird. His fascination with the inventions of masters such as Leonardo da Vinci has led him to spend more than 20 years trying to develop a machine that will make human-powered flight a reality. He is working on the fourth prototype of his ornithopter, a machine with flapping wings. Bird's latest design has a wing-span of 18.6 mt, with aluminium-mounted latex membranes that are controlled via hand and foot controls.

Methods, Practice, Design and construction, Structural engineering, Engineers, Ornithopters, Bird, Bryn

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Out with the old, in with the nuovo at Bertorelli's

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Harper Mackay has used dramatic colour and exotic finishes as part of its refurbishment of Bertorelli's restaurant in London, England. There are many innovative creative design ideas, with the reception desk and cloakroom being hidden behind carved oak beaver-tooth veneer cladding, for example, and the wall finish in the first-floor restaurant and ground-floor Cafe Italian being a woven lattice of veneered plywood strips. The old atrium has been moved to the back of the building.

Contracts, London, England, Restaurants, Remodeling and renovation, Italian restaurants, Harper Mackay

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