The AJ’s Sketchbook series is a showcase of sketches and concept drawings by architects and designers. Today’s sketches have been submitted by Malcolm Fraser, co-founder of Fraser/Livingstone Architects, in memory of Andrew Gillespie, who has died tragically young at 33
Author Archives: Malcolm Fraser
‘Demolishing Glasgow’s Wyndford towers would be an outrage’
The residents of the run-down high-rises on Glasgow’s Wyndford estate are battling a proposal to demolish the towers and rebuild. They are true climate champions, writes architect Malcolm Fraser
Malcolm Fraser: ‘This is a fertile moment to press for a new future’
Malcom Fraser, a driving force behind the Architects for Yes group, talks about the Scottish referendum result and the birth of a new campaign group
View from Edinburgh: an independent Scotland would be better for architecture
For Scottish architecture to flourish once again, Malcolm Fraser argues in the Architectural Review that Scots must regain their independence from the UK in the imminent referendum
Malcolm Fraser on Scotland – ‘We don’t export well and the big jobs at home go to non-Scots’
There was scant Christmas cheer up north this winter. Workloads are shaky, with the effects of chronic underbidding yet to feed through
Niddrie Mill and St Francis primary school by Elder and Cannon
Elder and Cannon’s joint campus for two primary schools has a kind of ‘creative sociability’, elbowing its way into Edinburgh’s deprived Craigmillar community, writes Malcolm Fraser. Photography by Keith Hunter