Keppie Design

Friday 14th March was the official launch of ONE SeedPod, the single largest public-private investment in the growth of Scotland’s food and drink manufacturing sector. The £27million project, part of the Aberdeen City Region Deal, is creating a hub for businesses to scale production, develop new products, test innovative processes, and access industry expertise, entrepreneurial education and mentoring developed by ONE and partners. The new-build includes 11 food-safe manufacturing kitchens, new product development and demonstration kitchens, and pilot plant and process testing spaces, and is the new home for the Northeast Scottish food and drink sector. Luke Thurman, Associate Director at Keppie Design, has been involved in the project since we won the competition to develop the new Food and Drink innovation hub back in 2019, said “it has been a pleasure to work on this project, building relationships and collaboratively facing the myriad challenges that the project has faced. The vision has remained strong, and we are proud to have delivered a striking building, a beacon we hope for the long-term investment in the regions high-value food and drink manufacturing sector, paving the way for ground-breaking advancements and increased productivity in North-east Scotland.” Read more here: https://bit.ly/4hADUPn Opportunity North East Limited #ONESeedpod #Aberdeen #opportunitynortheast #foodinnovation #ScotlandInnovationHub #scottishfoodanddrink #foodbusiness

Suzanne Tighe and David Morrison are looking forward to attending the Healthcare Buildings Forum Scotland this week at Cameron House, Loch Lomond, Scotland . If you are attending and would like to meet up, please drop us a message. #keppie #healthcare #architecture #healthcarebuildingsforum #conference #networking

A huge congratulations to our very own Daniel G. Kelly, Katie Doherty, Laura Porter and Archibald Mervyn Prince on passing this year's ARB Part III exam! Your hard work and dedication has paid off and we can't wait to see what the future holds. Here's to many more successes ahead! Well done from all of us at Keppie! #part3 #architect #congratulations #certified #teamcelebration #teamkeppie

On Wednesday, we’re hosting the Glasgow Revit User Group (GRUG) at Keppie HQ! This event is a fantastic opportunity for local Revit users to come together, discuss, and share insights on BIM implementations. 🗓️ Date: Wednesday 19th February 🕕 Time: 18:00 – 20:00 If you’d like to attend or learn more about future events, please complete this form: https://lnkd.in/eVaShhHC GRUG thrives on the support of our members. If you’d like to contribute to our pizzas and beers, please visit: https://lnkd.in/esqnHEgm Andrew Waring #Keppie #Glasgow #Revit #BIM #BIMCoordination #BuildingInformationModeling #BIMServices #BIMManagement #Construction #BIMSpecialist #Design

🌹 Love is in the air at Keppie HQ! 🌹 In celebration of St. Valentine, we hosted a heart warming office-wide bake-off to support our charity partner, Emmaus UK . From Biscoff Fudge to Gingerbread Meringue Cupcakes, our team showcased their incredible baking talents and raised £242 for a great cause! 🎉 Special congratulations to our star bakers, Iva Kovacheva and Karen Gall, for their delectable creations. 🍰 Read more about our event and how you can support us on our journey to raise funds for Emmaus, Glasgow: https://bit.ly/4hYkgO4 #ValentinesDay #Keppie #BakeOff #Charity #EmmausGlasgow #SpreadTheLove

🌟 Exciting News! 🌟 We are thrilled to announce our new partnership with Emmaus Glasgow, a remarkable charity dedicated to supporting individuals who have experienced homelessness. Over the next two years, our goal is to raise £20,000 to help Emmaus Glasgow continue their incredible work in providing accommodation, support and meaningful work opportunities to those in need. Find out more here: https://bit.ly/3PUUnT6 #Keppie #Emmaus #EmmausGlasgow #Glasgow #CharityPartner #Fundraising Emmaus UK

In a year that saw us reflect on 170 years of our projects and evolution, we were delighted to receive the news of being recognised as Scotland’s No1 Architect, in this year’s Urban Realm Top 100. It is an accolade that our practice is extremely proud of, as we look towards our 171st year (and beyond) as an Employee-owned business. Some of our thoughts on the year, contained in the January 2025 edition of Urban Realm Magazine, can be read here: https://bit.ly/4anep27 #Keppie #No1 #Number1 #UrbanRealm #Scotland #Architecture #InteriorDesign #TownPlanning #Design

🎄 Season's Greetings from Keppie! 🎄 Wishing all our valued clients and collaborators a Merry Christmas and all the best for 2025! #keppie #teamkeppie #HappyHolidays #MerryChristmas #NewYear2025 #KeppieCelebrates

The Glasgow Herald Building: A personal perspective by Andy Scott The Lighthouse Gates came about through an enquiry from Page and Park Architects via a limited competition. We submitted designs for both the sliding gates which are now the front entrance to The Lighthouse on Mitchell Lane, and the large service entry gates around the corner. The sliding gates were obviously the showcase element with the service gates being much more utilitarian. The sliding gates are composed of three lattice panels, which roll one in front of the other to allow access to the building. I was inspired by CRM’s interest in natural forms, his plant-based drawings and designs, and by the super-realist paintings of Chuck Close. Close developed a style of using myriads of tiny pictograms which when viewed from distance create pixellated yet realistic portraits. I translated that theme into laser cut steel motifs and presented a design based on a photograph of Charles’s wife Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh. I thought the Lighthouse presented an opportunity to subtly celebrate Margaret, a renowned designer in her own right and very much part of CRM’s creative life. Each of the steel panels is a flat bar grid of 100mm squares, and within a number of those squares we welded laser cut steel motifs which were based on the shapes of pollen and seeds. When the building is closed the gates form an abstract three-panel steel lattice barrier in front of the foyer’s glass facade. When open, the gates slide one over the other (to the right, as I remember) and when combined the steel grids perfectly align. The little steel pictograms then visually merge and lo and behold, the portrait of Margaret is revealed. https://bit.ly/41B0OSf #keppie #keppie170 #anniversary #170years #architecture #interiordesign #townplanning #glasgow #scotland #glasgowhistory #glasgowherald #mackintosh

In the late 1980s, with the interest in Mackintosh at its height, the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery had taken the practice job books and historic drawings it was interested in from Keppie Henderson to keep for posterity. This meant that in 2001, when a concerted effort to catalogue a huge backlog of historic drawings was undertaken, the practice archive contained mostly post-Second World War projects and only a small number of drawings prepared between the wars. However, in one of the very last bundle of drawings unrolled to catalogue, former Keppie director David Collin came across alterations to the Glasgow Herald premises in Buchanan Street / Mitchell Street from the 1930s. Inside those were several rolled-up working drawings of the building from the 1890s. And inside them, drawings from the 1880s. It seemed that whoever was carrying out alterations from 1935 to 1937 – a period confirmed in the job books – had consulted old drawings from the practice’s previous involvement in the building. Having thought the practice had either given away or sold anything to do with Mackintosh before 1990, it now had a set of original drawings for the Glasgow Herald Building. It is difficult to tell how many of the drawings were by Mackintosh, although the elevations are undoubtedly in his style. They were possibly copies made by him to discuss with the builder on site, since there are notes scribbled on some of them. While the set of construction drawings is incomplete, the highest numbered is 213. In those days, all the drawings were usually prepared by the architect, including structural ones. Today we think of the Glasgow Herald building as the place where The Lighthouse design and exhibition centre is. However this was the back, or business side of the Herald premises that were entered by the public from Buchanan Street. Perhaps the young Mackintosh was only allowed the freedom to design the water tower and the other features of the Mitchell Street part of the building because it was to the rear, and few would pay much attention to it. (text extracts from ‘Charles Rennie Mackintosh & Co.’ by David Stark, and Mackintosh Architecture: Context, Meaning and Making. https://bit.ly/4f4VKt3) The Herald Scotland #keppie #keppie170 #anniversary #170years #architecture #interiordesign #townplanning #glasgow #scotland #glasgowhistory #glasgowherald #mackintosh