Seasons Greetings from Everyone at Kettle Collective.

We welcome back Agata who has re-joined our team after completing her Part II at Edinburgh University. Agata joined our team in 2017 and went back to Uni before re-joining us in 2020. It has been an interesting time as the team have been working remotely but we found time to ask her some questions about her career so far. What do you think/do differently in architecture than you did during your part 1 placement? Throughout my undergraduate and postgraduate…

During these challenging times, the health and safety of our team and their families is our number one priority. We continue to follow the guidance given by the World Health Organisation and local governments and continue to support our staff with flexible working solutions to continue to deliver our work in the most efficient way. We have invested in software and hardware solutions to make this possible and we will continue, as we have done so with many clients, to…

The Hunter Foundation has announced plans to develop the Hunter Global Leadership Centre on the banks of Loch Lomond, designed by Kettle Collective. The Hunter Foundation is partnering with the University of Strathclyde to create Scotland’s first dedicated leadership training centre, designed to drive social benefit and economic growth. A planning application will be made to Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park next month.

The Radisson Red Tower will become a dramatic new feature of the skyline of Reykjavik, and an exciting new destination for visitors and residents of the city. Find out more about the project here.

Seasons Greetings from Everyone at Kettle Collective.

The Tilal Al Ghaf Sales and Experience Center has won the Zero Energy Building of the Year at the 2019 MENA Green Building Awards. The Tilal Al Ghaf Sales & Experience Center is a special landmark situated in Majid Al Futtaim’s flagship community. It was designed with sustainability at the forefront, incorporating large arrays of photovoltaic solar panels, making it a Net Positive building. The project is targeting a range of green building certifications including BREEAM Excellent, WELL Silver, in…

Join us at our Open Dubai Studio on the 12th November as part of Dubai Design Week. Find out more here.

Join us at the CTBUH Conference in Chicago tomorrow, where Tony Kettle will be joining Session 3H: Towers and Their Public. Find out more here.

Kettle Collective nominated for Boutique Firm of the Year at the 2019 Middle East Architect Awards. More details on the shortlist here.

We are thrilled to now be working with Changeworks, for recycling in our Edinburgh studio. As a company, we try our best to reuse and recycle where possible. We are looking forward to this new challenge to reduce our waste and to recycle more with the help of the great team at Changeworks.

Three international engineering teams are competing to build the first opening road bridge over the River Clyde. The bridge design, by Kettle Collective and SWECO, celebrates the river’s shipbuilding heritage. Find out more here.

At the recent Leaders in Architecture summit in Dubai, I discussed my experience visiting the Kogi people (an indigenous ethnic group that lives in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia), as part of my postgraduate thesis research. The talk discussed the differences between the Kogi people’s holistic way of building communities (which is localised, with design based on qualitative criteria), with conventional construction practice (which is typically globalised and the design based on narrow quantified, rather than qualified…

Glasgow Warriors recently asked us to help them launch their new logo with an exciting animated campaign. Our in-house creative team, ink, developed the project, which brings the clubs ‘warrior’ mascot to life. The animation follows the timeline of the Glasgow Warriors from their roots, right through to the present day. The video was used by Glasgow Warriors to launch their new branding on their social media channels and STV player ahead of the 2019/20 campaign. The Kettle Collective team…

We are thrilled that our River Clyde Crossing project has been nominated for the Scottish Design Awards Future Project Category. Find out more here.

Kettle Collective would like to wish you a Happy Eid! May this special occasion bring peace and joy to you and your family.

Tony Kettle speaks to Design Middle East about the future of solar technology.

We spoke to Adele, to find out more about her. 1. Why did you choose to study architecture? I was born and raised in Nicosia, Cyprus – a war torn capital where the city and its people significantly suffered the aftermath of war and division. In a creative light, my art A-Level projects explored the effects this deteriorating city had on society and the well-being of its individuals. I used art as a form of depicting people’s emotions and portraying…

Ramadan Kareem, have a blessed month.

Congratulations to Colin who completed the 2019 Virgin Money London Marathon on Sunday in 4:47:41. Colin was running for his Mum who was diagnosed with Cancer last year and raised over £6,000 for Brain Tumour Research. Colin said “I wanted to take myself out of my comfort zone and went from literally no running to running the London marathon in 9 months to raise money for Brain Tumour Research”. “The training through the winter was pretty tough but it made…