It's been a while!

We've had a busy few months since I last posted, mainly with a new addition to the Hannay McLaren family! That's the excuse and I'm sticking to it!

We were delighted to recently feature in the RIAS Autumn magazine (well Louise was!) with a shortlisted design for the RIAS Silver Medal Competition. The brief was "A symbol of Scottish Architecture" and after some brainstorming came up with the idea of the vernacular cottage form as a living tradition. 




Competition submission

 




Article from the RIAS Quarterly magazine


I've just had a look at the Peerindex listing for the AJ top 100 tweeting Architects and we've moved up to 50th place!  I think quite a few people must have joined Twitter in order to get onto the list and have now abandoned it!

We're also listed on the Google map of architects, consultants and designers who use Twitter.  It's very interesting to see where our followers and peers are all based.


It's been a quiet few months, but things are begining to look busier for the forseeable future with a few larger and some interesting projects on the horizon.

AJ tCn top 100 Architects on Twitter

Hannay McLaren Architects was included in the 100 most influential UK architects on Twitter.

Run by the AJ (Architects’ Journal) magazine in conjunction with (tCn) the Construction Network, the survey was carried out using PeerIndex, a web technology company which is algorithmically mapping out the social web. By measuring a user’s authority, activity and audience, their PeerIndex is produced and can be compared to others within the same industries.

The Architects’ Journal asked people using Twitter to nominate architects for inclusion in the table.

Being fairly recent converts to Twitter we are delighted with our 202nd place!

The full Peerindex list of all 307 Architects can be found here.

Having been sceptical of the usefulness of Twitter in a professional and business capacity, once I delved deeper it quickly became a background part of my everyday work.  With most construction and architecture magazines and all daily newspapers having a Twitter account, the stream of current industry news and links make it much easier to quickly access any interesting and relevant stories and of course to then share these with our followers.  Having a network of fellow Architects also commenting on these stories can be very insightful and thought provoking, especially as we are a small office.

If you are a fellow Tweeter we can be found @HannayMclaren but hopefully you already know that and follow us!

Architect in the House 2011

We are delighted to announce that we are taking part in Architect in the House again this year.

Architect in the House is an innovative scheme run by Shelter, the housing and homelessness charity, and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).  They match homeowners with a local chartered architect who gives up an hour of their time for a design consultation.  In exchange, the homeowner makes a suggested donation of £40 to Shelter.

For more details, including the money raised by Architect in the House 2010, and to register go to Architect in the House