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.
The RIAS (Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland) are to hold an interdisciplinary conference on healthy workplaces at the Lighthouse in March 2007. For more details about the event, please contact Emma Murphy at Graven Images by emailing emma@graven.co.uk.
We are pleased to announce that Tigerlily, the boutique hotel we designed for Montpeliers (Edinburgh) and Lulu, the nightclub located on the basement floor below Tigerlily have been impressing awards panels in the UK and abroad.
Tigerlily has swept the boards in nominations for the prestigious 2007 Scottish Hotels of the Year Awards and has been nominated in the top category of the Scottish Hotel of the Year as well as being shortlisted in four other categories: Best Hotel Design, Best Boutique Hotel, Best Hotel Bar and Best Edinburgh Hotel.
News of the nominations follows Tigerlily’s success in winning the Best New Design title in the UK Bar Awards and being nominated in best bedroom/bathroom interiors shortlist of the European Hotel Design Awards 2006.
The UK Bar Awards, acclaimed as the bar industry’s event of the year, aim to celebrate and reward excellence across all areas of the UK bar and quality pub industry.
Judge Paul Wootton of UK Bar Awards organisers Class Magazine, said “Too often with design, sophistication and fun are mutually exclusive. Tigerlily, however, combines both to dramatic effect: it’s glamorous without being intimidating, playful without being cheesy. And rather than merely being a backdrop to the food and drink offering, it seems an integral part of the experience, stimulating the senses with its bold use of colour and materials. A brilliant achievement.â€
Meanwhile, Lulu – the newly opened club in the basement of Tigerlily – has also won acclaim after being named by Sunday Times Style Magazine as one of the UK’s best three new boutique nightclubs.
Well done guys!
When we first got involved in the Investors in People programme we were a little sceptical but that was 6 years ago, and year-on-year it has helped us to be smarter, to do better work and to be more profitable.
The Merchant City, Glasgow’s cultural quarter and our home for the last 16 years has won an Academy of Urbanism Award, in the “Great Neighbourhood†category. We are pleased to have contributed to the Merchant City becoming a recognised and defined area of the City Centre. To view images of one of our projects here, click on the links below:
Click here to view the Merchant City Townscape Heritage Initiative website
We are pleased to say that GCDL (Girvan Community Developments Limited) have had an award of £250,000 from the BIG lottery confirmed. Graven Images is supporting this project to create a new community facility and interpretation centre for the Ailsa Craig. RSPB and South Ayrshire Council are GCDL’s major partners in the project.
To view the Girvan online website, click here.
To read more about the Ailsa Craig project on the RSPB website, click here.
As Beagle 2 hurtles towards Mars for a 25th December landing, so the eponymous Graven Images designed exhibition for the British Council heads towards its opening in South Korea. The exhibition structure is a clever re-use of a standard “pop-up” space frame, formed into a tunnel, and there will be brochures and CDs to support the event.
Tigerlily, the boutique hotel we designed for Montpeliers in Edinburgh has been voted the most stylish in the UK. The hotel won the best new design award at the UK Bar Awards.
Congratulations to Montpeliers – well done guys!
We are pleased to announce that our in-house band “Talking Arse” will be playing live at Glasgow’s Brunswick Hotel on Wednesday 13th December, 8pm.
We don’t like to disappoint our army of fans, so as usual, we will be in costume…
We have just completed the design of the corporate identity and communications materials for Greenbelt Group.
Greenbelt owns and manages open space land that is formed as part of new housing developments throughout the UK. The company works with residents, developers and local authorities.
We appraised the company’s branding and communication requirements by working closely with management to conduct interviews with a cross-section of employees and customers. This process clarified Greenbelt’s communication priorities and allowed us to construct a model showing the company’s structure, audiences, communications routes and collateral required.