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• 2026
• • Aug
  • New Director
• • Jun
  • We're Hiring!
  • Revisiting Newhaven Home
• • May
  • Cairngorms Cottage Complete
• • Apr
  • Stone detailing and progress on site
  • Grange project nearing completion
• • Mar
  • Attic Conversion Progress Update
• • Feb
  • West Coast Planning
• • Jan
  • Planning received for farm conversion in Fife

• 2025
• • Dec
  • Steading featured in Alder 04
  • Mull plots now available for purchase
• • Nov
  • Attic Conversion Progress
  • We're Hiring!
• • Oct
  • Planning Granted for New Houses, Mull
  • Trossachs feature in Gardens Illustrated
  • Georgian Restoration featured in H&IS
  • Completion of West Coast Home
  • Congratulations Eilidh
• • Sep
  • A Conversation on Conservation
• • Aug
  • Site visit to Orkney
• • Jul
  • Celebrating A Conversation on Conservation Exhibition
• • Jun
  • East Lothian Project Starts on Site
  • Planning Secured
  • Exhibition Extended!
• • May
  • Architecture Fringe 2025
• • Apr
  • Highland cabin starts on site
  • New architect
• • Mar
  • Tour de HLA
• • Feb
  • Harris Starts on Site
• • Jan
  • A Conversation on Conservation

• 2024
• • Aug
  • The Hill House Visit
  • Praise for Ingleby Gallery Conversion
• • Jul
  • Harris Planning Permission Granted
• • Jun
  • School Work Experience
• • May
  • Workplace Menopause Workshop
• • Apr
  • Passivhaus Certification
• • Mar
  • Congratulations Jake, PR1 2000m World & European Indoor Rowing Champion
  • Congratulations Ros, RIAS Conservation Accredited Architect
• • Feb
  • Site Progress at our Colinton Attic Conversion
• • Jan
  • Early Concept & Model Making
  • Winter at our Walled Garden Site

• 2023
• • Dec
  • New Associates
• • Aug
  • Building Warrant Approved for Artist's Studio & Gym Buildings
• • Jul
  • Garden Room Planning Permission Granted
• • Jun
  • Delighthouse
• • May
  • Planning and Listed Building Consent Granted

• 2022
• • Oct
  • Studio Building Planning Permission Granted
• • Jun
  • Trafford Planning Permission Granted
• • Apr
  • Inverleith House
• • Mar
  • International Women's Day
• • Jan
  • West Highland Museum

• 2021
• • Sep
  • New working hours
• • May
  • Architecture Fringe 2021
• • Apr
  • Construction Declares Event
• • Mar
  • Inspirational Organisations
  • International Women's Day
  • New Shoots
• • Jan
  • The Marlings granted planning permission

• 2020
• • Dec
  • Season's Greetings
  • Christina selected in AJ '40 under 40'
• • Nov
  • Arisaig Planning Granted
• • Oct
  • New Director
• • Aug
  • Planning granted on Burr’s Garage project
  • Scottish Design Awards Finalists
• • Jul
  • Office upgrades
  • Christina elected RIAS President
• • May
  • Christina stands for RIAS president
• • Apr
  • Ian Appleton
• • Mar
  • Covid-19 Update
  • Smart Works Edinburgh
  • New Architects
• • Feb
  • RIBA + VitrA Talk: Yasmeen Lari
  • Architects Declare

• 2019
• • Dec
  • Season's Greetings
• • Oct
  • Peter Elliott
• • Sep
  • North Berwick house completion
• • Aug
  • NC500 Adventure
  • Kylesku Hotel Launches New Website
• • May
  • Tongue Community Consultation
  • Culross house planning granted
  • Midlothian steading planning granted
• • Apr
  • Scottish Workplace Journey Challenge
• • Mar
  • West End Project progresses
• • Feb
  • Helen Lucas Architects are hiring
  • Grange house planning granted
  • New Town flat progress

• 2018
• • Dec
  • Conservation Ethics and Approaches
• • Nov
  • Planning Permissions Granted
• • Oct
  • Belhaven House completion
  • Helen Lucas elected to RIAS council
  • Ingleby Gallery featured in AHSS magazine
• • Jul
  • House Nearing Completion
• • May
  • Coarum Communication Workshop
• • Mar
  • Carpenter Oak Trip
• • Feb
  • New Ingleby Gallery

• 2017
• • Nov
  • Borders Planning Granted
  • River Garden Planning
• • Sep
  • HLA Feature in New Book
• • Jul
  • The Fat Pony
• • May
  • HLA Runs for IFDAS
• • Mar
  • Wester Coates Planning
  • Greenhill Planning
  • Renovation Nearing Compeltion
• • Feb
  • Belford Mews Planning
• • Jan
  • Works Complete at Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

• 2016
• • Dec
  • Seasons Greetings
  • Highland Shelters Competition
• • Oct
  • Colinton Revisited
• • Sep
  • New Build House in Edinburgh Complete
• • May
  • HLA Project For Sale
  • Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
• • Apr
  • Architectural Guide to the North Coast 500
  • HLA becomes Limited Company
  • Planning permission for Loch Lubnaig house and swimming pool
• • Mar
  • New Architects

• 2015
• • Dec
  • Planning Permission in Belhaven
• • Sep
  • New Recruits
• • Aug
  • We have moved!
• • Jul
  • Renovation nears completion
  • New Associates
• • Jun
  • From England to Scotland and Beyond
• • May
  • HLA Runs for Nepal
• • Apr
  • RSAW Spring School 2015
  • Dollar Stair Complete
• • Mar
  • Swanston Planning Granted
  • Highland Hotel Reopens
  • Cameras at the ready!
• • Feb
  • HLA Goes Green
• • Jan
  • Georgian House Extension Takes Shape
  • Woodhall Road Nearing Completion

• 2014
• • Dec
  • Rooflight Complete at Abercromby
• • Nov
  • 2014 IAA Convention
• • Oct
  • Complete Project
  • Gatehouse Revisited
• • Sep
  • A CPD Abroad
  • Before & After
• • Aug
  • Room With a View
• • Jul
  • East Claremont Street
  • Home & Interiors Feature
• • Jun
  • Cycling to work
• • May
  • Highland Hotel
• • Apr
  • Foundations Complete
• • Mar
  • Duddingston Villa Complete
• • Feb
  • Extension Complete at Kingsknowe
• • Jan
  • Dramatic Lighting

• 2013
• • Dec
  • Extension Complete in Portobello
• • Nov
  • Planning Permission for new house in Midlothian
• • Oct
  • Planning Permission Granted for Canaan Lane
  • Helen Lucas Architects featured in The Guardian
• • Sep
  • Helen Lucas Architects awarded commendation in Saltire Society Housing Awards
  • Pathways to Professions
  • Commendation for Grange Loan
  • Duddingston Village
• • Aug
  • Award nomination: Saltire Society Housing Design Awards
• • Feb
  • New Associate
• • Jan
  • Proposal in Teddington
  • Highland Hot Tub
  • Loft Conversion to Bungalow in Greenbank

• 2012
• • Dec
  • Sinuous Staircase
  • Mini-Me
  • Seaside Home Complete in Inverness-shire
  • Extension Complete in Edinburgh
• • Nov
  • Proposals for Skye Croft
• • Oct
  • Glazing Polwarth Terrace
• • Sep
  • Ingleby Gallery Tours for Edinburgh Doors Open Day
  • Grange Extension Complete
• • Aug
  • Crisp Corner Completes Cladding
• • Jul
  • Garden Room Extension Completed at Moston Terrace, Edinburgh
  • Planning Permission in Inverleith
• • May
  • Timber Frame is Almost Complete at Dick Place
  • Progress update on a New Build in Roshven
  • More progress on extension to Cottage near Dunbar
  • Extension to Gatehouse on Dick Place, Edinburgh
• • Mar
  • New Window at Hartington Gardens, Edinburgh
  • New House Completed in North Berwick
• • Feb
  • Contemporary, light refurbishment to Edinburgh family home
  • Staircase Opened Up During Refurbishment
• • Jan
  • Roof with a View
  • Family home in the Highlands with wind turbine and solar panels.
  • Project at Grange Loan Completed
  • Timber Frame Erected in Roshven

• 2011
• • Dec
  • Renovation of Dunbeg House Completed
• • Sep
  • House Grows in Size
• • Aug
  • A Light Touch on the Landscape
• • Jul
  • Scissor Trusses Installed at Stoer
  • Villa Restored
• • May
  • New House on Site in North Berwick
• • Apr
  • Sea Views at North Berwick

• 2010
• • May
  • Planning Permission in Stoer Lochinver

• 2009
• • May
  • HLA Revisit Leamington Terrace

• 2001
• • Dec
  • Edinburgh Extension
  • Setting Out in North Berwick
  • Night Shot of East Lothian Extension
  • Timber Details at Tynininghame
  • Extension Complete

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