We are excited to see our Walled Garden site taking shape, glasshouse now installed, in Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park.

Helen Lucas Architects are delighted to announce that Will Cairns has been made a Senior Associate, and Nick Green an Associate. Congratulations Will and Nick!

We are delighted to have received Building Warrant approval for an Artist’s Studio and Gym buildings in Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park. 

The proposals will provide a generous light-filled Artist’s Studio with views out over the beautiful landscape design by Tracy McQue. The Gym building will boast breath-taking views of the landscape and hills to the South. The buildings are designed to sit comfortably within their surroundings with simple modern forms and refined palette. Blackened timber cladding is paired with zinc roof and powder coated window frames/rainwater goods. 

We're looking forward to breaking ground, with the project set to start on site next month.

We are delighted to have received Planning Permission for a garden room extension to a property in Morningside. 

The project will provide a generous light-filled living room as well as a new main door and porch for the property which is currently accessed off a common stair. Inspired by our client's love of colour and by the natural tones in the garden, the extension will have pink lime rendered walls over wood fibre insulation, with a green zinc roof and powder coated window frames/rainwater goods. Blue-green bricks, made from recycled materials, will form a base course and will continue up to meet windows at cill level. 

We're looking forward to progressing the project over the next few months, and to seeing the materials come together on site.

We’re excited to be hosting an exhibition in our shopfront as part of this year’s Archifringe. The window display showcases Delighthouse, one of the winning installations from the Winter Stations competition in Toronto, designed by HLA’s Nick Green and graphic designer Greig Pirrie.

Responding to the competition theme of ‘radiance’, the installation sought to reinterpret a traditional timber lighthouse form into a technicoloured, fairground-inspired landmark to draw visitors to the beach during the harsh Canadian winter. The structure consists of eight frames leaning into each other representing many parts coming together to find strength as a whole. A colourful pattern wraps around the tower, casting onto panels which radiate outwards, anchoring the tower to the ground.

The Delighthouse exhibition is on view at our studios on Marchmont Road until 11th June. For more information, check out the Archifringe website here: https://architecturefringe.com/festivals/2023/delighthouse