This is an archive of essays, lecture notes, press cuttings and other text-based ephemera from Graven (we used to be known as Graven Images). Sometimes we write things. This is where we keep them.

BBC Headquarters, Pacific Quay features in Sunday Herald

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One of our current interiors projects, BBC Scotland’s new headquarters at Pacific Quay, has been featured in the Sunday Herald.

To view the article online, please click here.


Graven Images through to shortlist for Shanghai Expo 2010

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We are pleased to announce that we have been shortlisted by the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) to design the British Pavilion for World Expo 2010, Shanghai. We have teamed up with Draw Architects and Arup. 5 other teams have also been shortlisted including Zaha Hadid Architects.

For more infomation, please click here.


Graven Images win Scottish Design Award

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Graven Images won an award for Tigerlily in the Interior Design category at the Scottish Deisgn Awards. Well done to everyone!

For a full list of winners, please click here.


We are moving office!

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As Graven Images continue to grow we have unfortunately grown too big for our beloved studio on Candleriggs! We will be moving premises on 1st June so please note that as from the 1st June 2007 our new address will be:

175 Albion Street
Glasgow
G1 1RU

Please note that our contact numbers and email addresses will remain the same.

Please update your records from 1st June 2007. Thank you!


Graven Images at The Scottish Show 2007

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The Lighthouse, Scotland’s Centre for Architecture, Design and the City, invited us to create an exhibition around the idea of a ‘social space’ for The Scottish Show.

Rather than create a ‘lounge’ we decided to make a installation that encouraged people to gather round and hang out.

Our installation is a distillation of us and our approach to our work over the last 21 years presented as a giant letter ‘G’. Big ‘G’ is derived from our new brand identity and contains actual and inferred ‘bits’ of us including audio snippets and other accumulated things.

In many ways it’s a container for our ideas, our studio culture, and our Scottish context.

The Scottish Show is at The Lighthouse from 18th May – 3rd June 2007.

For more information about the Scottish Show, please click here.


Tigerlily features in Conde Nast Traveller Hotlist

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Tigerlily, the boutique hotel in Edinburgh which we designed for Montpeliers has been named in the Conde Nast Traveller Hotlist of places to stay in 2007.

To view the article online, please click here.


The BBC Sheds hit the press again….

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Our decision to use sheds as thinking places for staff at the new BBC HQ has been featured in the Daily Mail…


BBC Pacific Quay hits the Sun headlines

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The decision to use garden sheds as thinking environments at the new BBC Scotland Headquarters at Pacific Quay has been featured in The Sun.


Tigerlily wins Scottish Hotel Design Award 2007

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Tigerlily, the boutique hotel which we designed for Montpeliers (Edinburgh) Ltd, scooped a couple of awards at last night’s Scottish Hotel of the Year Awards.

Tigerlily won the coveted Scottish Hotel Design Award 2007, and the Scottish Hotel Bar Award 2007.

Tigerlily was also awarded a special commendation for the Scottish boutique hotel category.

Congratulations to everyone at Montpeliers – and well done to the team in the studio!

For a full list of this year’s winners please click here.


Merchant City

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The new signs are in place and we will be working with Chris Stewart Architects and Townscape Heritage Initiative to relocate Douglas Gordon’s “Empire” artwork, which will move to accomodate the new retail development for Selfridges.