Events
The DIA organise a regular series of events held throughout the year. These events take a variety of formats, from lectures to workshops, from building visits to social outings.
The Association of Dundee Architecture Students at the University of Dundee are running a virtual lecture series for professionals and students - details can be found below.
The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland organise events, conferences, CPD and competitions throughout the year for professionals and students across the whole of Scotland.
Adaptive Reuse Ideas Competition
Calling all DIA Young Architects + Designers
The Dundee Institute of Architects is pleased to announce the second edition of the DIA Young Architects and Designers Competition, an architectural ideas competition for new architects, architectural designs and architecture students within the DIA area.
The Keiller Centre in Dundee was once a populated and busy shopping centre embedded within a city block in Dundee City Centre. Over the decades, its usage and footfall has declined and, although still very much a functioning shopping centre, there is a high level of unit vacancy and it is underused…
DIA Annual Awards Dinner
The Dundee Institute of Architects is delighted to announce that our much-anticipated annual awards dinner will return to the Invercarse Hotel in Dundee on the evening of November 16th.
Tickets are available for purchase at a price of £50 for members, with a special discounted rate of £25 for student members. Sales will continue until Friday, November 10th. To secure your place at the table, please send an email to Christine Palmer at christine.j.palmer.architect@gmail.com indicating the number of tickets you require and any dietary requirements,
We sincerely hope you can join us, and we eagerly anticipate your presence on the upcoming evening.
DIA Young Architects and Designers Competition
The Dundee Institute of Architects is pleased to announce the DIA Young Architects and Designers Competition, an architectural ideas competition for new architects, architectural designs and architecture students within the DIA area.
The competition brief is to help facilitate young architects and designers to share their ideas for the future of the architectural fabric of Tayside and Fife.
DIA Awards 2022
Level6 Portfolio Annual Publication
Level 6 Portfolio is a decade-old Architectural publisher which celebrates the work of under and postgraduate students in Scotland. Our ambitions are to offer a platform to promote and celebrate the work of future architects to a wider audience.
We have carefully curated a selection of Architecture projects over the year to present an annual publication rich with notable student work. We will be offering a limited-run opportunity to purchase a physical copy of this publication, and therefore invite you to register your interest. Click the link below:
DIA Design Awards 2022
The DIA Design Awards for 2022 are now open for entries! The following award categories are:
Best on Drawing Board Award, Best Rehab/Regeneration Award, Best New House Award, Best Group of Housing Award, Best Commercial / Non-domestic Award, Best Interior Design Award, Best Small Project under £250k – Domestic Award, Best Small Project under £250k – Non-domestic Award, Best Use of Timber Award, Best Use of Stone Award, Ambassador Award, Supreme Award.
You can submit your entry via the following link:
https://airtable.com/shrYa2EBiDIIomQsx
DIA Pub Quiz
Save the Date for our next DIA Pub Quiz, the 28th of April. The time and venue will be confirmed shortly!
Conservation Grant Assistance
Are you working on a conservation project in Dundee that could benefit from funding?
Dundee Historic Environment Trust (DHET) was established to promote and encourage the conservation, protection and improvement of our historic environment. It does this by providing grant assistance for the repair of buildings and townscape features, along with outreach heritage grants which promotes the historic environment in the city. We have a particular emphasis on assisting city centre and regeneration projects, especially where the outcome can be seen to be supporting communities and economic activity.
Building Standards Delays
The Building Standards Team is currently experiencing high volumes of building warrant applications and general enquiries. There is now a delay in processing applications and responding to general enquiries. This is likely to continue for several weeks.
If your email is in relation to an active Building warrant or completion, all relevant paperwork will require to be uploaded through the ebuilding portal to ensure it can be picked up and allocated accordingly. If submitted through email, this will result in significant delays in processing. Please note we aim to respond as quickly as possible to all correspondence received.
Should your email be regarding a Dangerous Building or Public Safety Issue please call 01382434000 and request to speak to the Duty Surveyor/ Gordon Caird or Dave Aitken.
If you have a query regarding a FOISA request please follow the relevant links on the Dundee City Council website and submit your request.
DIA 2021 Award Ceremony
DIA Coastal Marker
According to research by Climate Central, some of Scotland’s central belt predicted to be submerged by sea water come 2050 – Fife's vulnerable coastal communities would be impacted by rising waters.
DIA Sustainability Survey - Results
The Dundee Institute of Architects are keen to seize the opportunity to learn how the profession could make an even greater contribution to the sustainability of modern society. We recently asked you to answer some questions for our DIA survey to aid the sustainability of the built environment, the results are now published and attached below!
ADAS Lecture Series
ADAS have published their upcoming Architecture lecture series. Their first lecture with Gustafson Porter + Bowman takes place on Thursday the 14th of October at 7pm and tickets are available here:
2021 DIA Awards - Now Open!
After a year in recess due to Covid 19, the DIA Architecture Awards are now open again! We are really looking forward to seeing what you have all been busy creating these last 18 months.
To link to the application form can be accessed from our 2021 Awards page here.
DIA COP26 Talks
The DIA are preparing a series of Sustainability themed CPD events over the 6 week period culminating in a half-day conference. These events will be open to the wider public and will also be promoted through the Dundee COP26 website list of events. We hope these events will raise many questions and discussions as to what the Architectural profession can do to reduce the threat of the climate crisis.
The full list of these talks can be seen here.
DIA Sustainability Survey
The Dundee Institute of Architects is keen to seize the opportunity to learn how the profession could make an even greater contribution to the sustainability of modern society and would be most grateful if you would spare three minutes of your time to provide answers to the following questions.
Click Below for the Link to the Survey:
Request for Interest
The DIA has received a request from the owner of a house in Dundee, who is looking for an architect with experience of working on listed and historic buildings, ideally of the Arts and Crafts period. The building is a C-listed Arts and Crafts house in Dundee city designed in 1909 by Patrick Hill Thoms (LB25417), that is in need of repair and restoration while conserving the originality of the building. The work will include the repair and restoration of the exterior roughcast and detailing, reinstatement of blocked windows, interior work to remodel/remove recent interior interventions, design and build a new detached contemporary conservatory (oak/glass/slate or zinc) linked to the rear door via a glass corridor (thereby enabling the reinstatement of the 'balanced asymmetry' of the rear (north) elevation), and complete exterior repainting. Although a modest-sized house, a careful restoration is important as the design reflects the late 'Voysey vernacular' in style.
If anyone is interested in working on this project, please contact Ian Muir at president@dia-architects.com
BBC Home Restoration Programme -
Open call for projects
Below the Radar TV is developing a new series for BBC 2 featuring home restorations across the UK and looking for projects to film over the summer.
At the core of an episode is the renovation of a heritage house/building (pre-1919) into a new home; and an individual, couple, or family who are ‘coming home to their roots.
The BBC has asked the team to film a pilot program over summer/autumn 2021, and they’d love to hear about any projects that have recently started or are about to go live that feature a ‘coming home’ story?
The producer’s name is Claire Burgoyne, and she’d love to hear from anyone who may be able to help - her number is 07392 866 376 or email cburgoyne@belowtheradar.tv.
DIA AGM 2021
The DIA 2021 AGM will be held on-line over Zoom on Thursday 25th March at 7pm.
As well as voting in a new President, the winner of the 2021 Sustainability Award will also be announced.
All are welcome to attend. If you would like the link to the Zoom meeting, please e-mail events@dia-architects.com in advance of the meeting, and a link will be sent out to your e-mail address.
We look forward to seeing you there!
ADAS Student Events
Tickets for upcoming lectures can be purchased on ADAS’ Eventbrite.
Tickets are free for students, £2 for non-students.
More information can be found on the Association of Dundee Architecture Students’ social media linked below.
The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland
Tickets for RIAS organised events and their most up to date news can be found on their website here.
