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Wylie Shanks Architects

Wylie Shanks Architects is an award-winning medium sized architectural practice employing architects, support staff, and administrative personnel providing a design service covering all building types. The practice operates throughout Scotland from its offices in Glasgow and Edinburgh. The firm has successfully executed a very large and varied range of commissions since formation of the original partnership in 1912, from small building jobs to multi-million pound major developments, with experience in industrial, healthcare, education, conservation, repair and commercial sectors and increasingly in community and leisure projects. It also is active in the residential and Housing Association sectors. The practice is a Chartered Practice with Royal Institute of Architects in Scotland, accredited in Conservation Architecture, and provides CDM Co-ordination as a member of the Association of Project Safety. Project management, space planning, computer aided design, expert witness, dispute resolution, and full design team services are also provided. The practice offers a pragmatic and contextual approach to projects and design solutions. In providing a practical design, the aim is to produce architecture suited to its time and place, and responsive to its site, context and use. Their mantra is “traditional service…. contemporary design”

A Centenary Retrospective is available to view at www.wylieshanks.com which references their landmark projects over the years, such as Lennox Castle Hospital; Glasgow Dental Hospitals; Motherwell and Wishaw Civic Centre; Scottish Daily Record Printing works; Collins Publishing Campus in Bishopbriggs; Beatson Oncology Centre; Glasgow Colleges of Building and Commerce; Northern Constabulary Headquarters in Inverness; the conversion of Govan Police Station; Dykebar Hospital Acute Admissions Unit; Crosshouse and Largs Resource Centres.

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