New Practice

04/11/2023

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Join us at the Andy MacMillian Memorial Lecture 2023. Held in conjunction with Architecture and Design Scotland - A&DS this will be an in-person event on 4 December at the Greyfriars Charteris Centre in Edinburgh.

We are delighted to announce our speaker for the event, Becca Thomas from New Practice Becca will engage attendees in her lecture titled: Building Community, and afterwards we will announce our Student Awards 2023 winners.

Becca Thomas is Creative Director at New Practice, which she founded with Marc Cairns in 2019. She is a skilled and thoughtful architect who delivers complex built projects at a wide range of scales. Her practice is anchored in a commitment to the design and delivery of beautiful and practical places which are sustainable and build social capital.

Becca has recently represented New Practice at events organised by RIBA, RIAS and schools of architecture across Europe. She is a regularly featured critic and writer across architecture and planning discourse in the UK including authoring articles and op-eds for wide read industry publications such as Architects Journal and RIBA Journal. Outside of her work at New Practice Becca is currently a Director of Many Studios CIC, a creative workspace provider and arts organisation she co-founded with Marc Cairns.

The Andy MacMillan Memorial Lecture is a free event and everyone is welcome to attend. Secure your tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/741576083027?aff=oddtdtcreator

03/08/2023

In January 2023 our friend and colleague, Emma Burke Newman was killed whilst cycling from her home in the Southside to Glasgow School of Art.

31/01/2023

Emma was a brilliant young woman and will be missed very much by her family, friends and colleagues.

If you were around Broomielaw on the morning of Friday 27 January and saw anything please contact the Police.

We are appealing for information following a fatal crash on Broomielaw, Glasgow, on Friday, 27 January, 2023.
The incident happened at the junction with the King George V Bridge around 10.10am and involved a cyclist and a HGV.

Emergency services attended and the cyclist, a 22-year-old woman, was taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital where she died a short time later.

She can be named as Emma Newman, from Moulineaux, Paris, in France.

No one else was injured and the road was closed to allow for crash investigation work. It re-opened around 7.25pm.

Sergeant Paul Mellis said: “Our thoughts are with Emma’s family and friends and our enquiries are ongoing to establish the full circumstances.

“I am appealing to anyone who saw what happened and who has not yet spoken to officers to get in touch, particularly if you have dash-cam that could assist with our investigation.”

Anyone who can help is asked to contact Police Scotland on 101, quoting incident number 0917 of Friday, 27 January, 2023.

16/01/2023

New Year, New Practice 💚
Left to Right:
Marc Cairns, Managing Director; Emma Burke-Newman, Designer; Barbara Vecchione, Senior Designer | Architect; Molly Judge, Senior Designer; Bek Ziola, Senior Designer | Architect; Joanna Hobbs, Senior Designer; Lily Whitehouse, Junior Designer; Samuel Stair, Senior Designer; Zoe Grainge, Designer; Maeve Dolan, Associate; Becca Thomas, Creative Director & Architect. Not pictured, Duncan Bain, Associate.
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11/01/2023

Carluke Cores
The reactivation of Carluke’s Town Centre through the transformation of vacant and derelict buildings into social and cultural facilities, provides new opportunities for the local community.
Carluke is a town located in South Lanarkshire. Its proximity to both Glasgow and Edinburgh and its residential feel contributed to make Carluke a well-known commuting town.
Carluke Cores objective was to identify key projects to revitalise Carluke and to encourage the local community and residents of nearby settlements to actively use the town centre.
Together with a series of other projects led by the client, One Carluke, Carluke Cores focuses on the regeneration of the town centre through the development of proposals for the reuse of vacant buildings located in strategic locations.
The proposals for new uses and the architectural design of the disused buildings is shaped by the needs and aspirations of the local communities which have been identified via previous public consultations such as, for example, the Carluke Conversations.
We were recently commissioned to deliver a wide teaching RIBA Stage 2 feasibility study to exploring opportunities for retrofit first approaches to a series of buildings across the town centre.
These included options for a Food Hub & Co-working Space at a building on Chapel Street and an Eco Hub & Net Zero Showcase at the old High Mill House.
Supported by the Scottish Government Place Based Initiative Programme, this project exemplifies our approach to the built environment as a practice, exploring opportunities for the future with the ambition of identifying potential uses for derelict buildings and developing much needed facilities for the local community.

22/11/2022

We’re super excited that our work as Lead Architect on the redevelopment of is a finalist in the Best Community and Faith Project category at tomorrow nights Awards!
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The nomination recognises the strength of the collaborative process between New Practice and Kinning Park Complex, from building and rebuilding a brief, to ongoing discussions around funding and future plans now the building has reopened; both sides have been able to take part in shared learning and a genuinely joyful working relationship and created an excellent and considered building as an outcome.
Wish us good luck! 🤞

15/11/2022

Our friends and client at 𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐊 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐋𝐄𝐗]] has long been a champion of doing more with less, our approach to redevelopment matched this spirit.
As Lead Architect on the £2 million redevelopment of their old Edwardian school building in Glasgow, our sustainability goal was to reuse as much of the building fabric and finishes as possible.
Sustainability at 𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐊 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐋𝐄𝐗]] is about the building and its metrics as a way to bolster and support the social and cultural capital that the organisation has developed since first taking the keys to the building in 1996.
At New Practice we believe strongly in such adaptive reuse approaches, and look forward to attending the AJ Retrofit Live conference in London next week on Wed 23 Nov.
That same evening our work at 𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐊 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐋𝐄𝐗]] is nominated for Best Community & Faith Project at the 2022 AJ Awards… we’ve got our fingers crossed! 🤞

18/10/2022

You are warmly invited to join Architecture LGBT+] Scotland for our Winter Meet-up! in collaboration with !
We’ll be joined by a group of LGBTQ+ individuals working and studying across the architecture industry to present their experiences (both positive and negative) of practice / profession alongside a suite of interesting (and even radical) inclusive design projects / proposals. These mini-presentations will be followed by a Q&A discussion hosted by Tamsie Thomson, CEO RIAS.
Spaces are limited and as such we are permitting one ticket per person via Eventbrite, please follow the link in our bio / Linktree for more information.
This event is contributing to the SAVE FUNDRAISER - a q***r space in Glasgow which is of great importance to many of the ArchitectureLGBT+ Scotland organising committee.
With thanks to RIAS for generously providing their venue and resources in-kind and to for providing the bar / drinks.
Thank you as ever to our Architecture LGBT+] 2022 Network Sponsors:
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10/10/2022

It’s been almost 12 months since we brought to life a vacant riverside site during , hosting local and global organisations responding to the climate crisis.
In Oct-Nov 2021, we delivered The Sustainable Glasgow Landing and - a large outdoor exhibition arena showcasing green technologies from vertical farming to Passivhaus technologies, sustainable power generation and active travel solutions.
New Practice is committed to circular design and ecological care - as central principles of our design approach.
We are signatories of ‘Architects Declare’, a network of architectural practices committed to addressing the climate and biodiversity emergency.

23/09/2022

We’re excited to be collaborating with Many Studios] to design a Pocket Park for The Barras Market 🌱
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Supported by and , the pocket park will transform an under-utilised portion of waste ground behind a car park into a new biodiverse gathering space for people (and wildlife)!
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The project is being delivered on site as a live-build through the support of a group of tenants from Many Studios] alongside local residents and businesses.
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The Pocket Park takes a reuse and recycle approach, avoiding the use of virgin materials where possible, and a bold use of colour to brighten up the currently drab site.
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16/09/2022

Team Update
We're delighted to have recently expanded our team (to 12 people) over the summer with new appointments across our offices in Glasgow and London!
Molly Judge joined the team as Senior Designer in July, working from our London office. Molly joins us from ZCD Architects where she led significant placeshaping and regeneration projects and previously worked at Publica to deliver ‘Making London Child Friendly’, as part of the Good Growth by Design programme, and ‘The Case for a River Thames Cultural Vision’ for the GLA.
Emma Burke-Newman joined the team as a Designer in June, relocating to the Glasgow office. She joins the team with significant experience supporting and delivering community engagement programmes in her previous role as 'Engagement and Digital Assistant' at Karakusevic Carson Architects (KCA).
Lily Whitehouse recently joined the teem in Glasgow too as a Junior Designer. Lily joins as a first class graduate from the Mackintosh School of Architecture as well as self initiated community engagement and creative facilitation experience through their In The Making project.
In addition, there have been several promotions across the practice with Barbara Vecchione now a Senior Designer & Architect, Samuel Stair now a Senior Designer and Zoe Grainge now a Designer.
Together we're all super excited to continue delivering best practice place-based projects across Scotland, London and the rest of the UK. Get in touch if you would like to know more!