Over the past few weeks huge cast stone slabs have been hung on the exterior of the new V&A Design Museum in Dundee.
Designed to resemble the cliffs along the north east coast, there are 2466 of them, weighing up to 2.5 tonnes each, on the end wall where the building hangs over the edge of the River Tay.
As construction projects go, this one’s a whopper, costing more than £80 million to bring to life.
It is due to open next year when it’s hoped it will have a major impact on Dundee, spawning other regeneration projects and putting the City of Discovery on the map.
If you work in construction, projects like this are a chance to make your mark on the cultural life of not only a city but the entire country.
Years from now you’ll still be able to point to these buildings and tell your grandkids: “I made that!”
So what other developments are in the pipeline?
National Galleries Archive
A new home for 100,000 objects belonging to the National Galleries has been earmarked for Granton in Edinburgh. It will cost £75 million, be built to super low-energy standards and be completed in 2021. Get a brickie’s role on a project like this and you could be building your own work of art.
Celtic Hotel & Museum
One of Scotland’s oldest football clubs plans to build a museum next to its stadium in London Road. If the club gets the go-ahead, the plans will also include a restaurant and shop. Everyone from plumbers to plasterers could soon have a huge new fan base.
City Hall, Perth
Five international architects have submitted plans for the transformation of this historic site into a new cultural meeting space in the heart of Perth. The plans include a roof garden and the replacement of much of the existing stonework with glass walls. Glaziers get ready!
Royal High School
Finally, it looks as if this classical building at the eastern end of Princes Street might have a bright future. After recent proposals to turn it into an hotel were rejected, there are plans to give it a new purpose in life as a 300-seat concert hall and home of St Mary’s Music School, currently in the west end of Edinburgh. It must be music to the ears of architects and electricians.
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