Events
We will regularly update this page with a variety of events delivered by:
i) The Dundee Institute of Architects (DIA) – offering a year-round series of events, including lectures, workshops, building visits, and social outings.
ii) The Association of Dundee Architecture Students (ADAS), University of Dundee – presenting a virtual lecture series for professionals and students.
iii) The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) – events, conferences, CPD sessions, and competitions for professionals and students across Scotland throughout the year.
DIA DESIGN AWARDS DINNER 2024
DIA Young Architects and Designers Competition
Conservation Grant Assistance
Adaptive Reuse Ideas Competition
Join us at the Apex Hotel on November 22nd as we reveal this years award winners. Want to know how to purchase your tickets? Click the link below.
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 Annual Awards Dinner
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
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:
Level6 Portfolio Annual Publication
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 Design Awards 2022
Save the Date for our next DIA Pub Quiz, the 28th of April. The time and venue will be confirmed shortly!
DIA Pub Quiz
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.
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…
Building Standards Delays
DIA 2021 Award Ceremony
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.
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 Coastal Marker
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!
DIA Sustainability Survey - Results
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:
ADAS Lecture Series
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.
2021 DIA Awards - Now Open!
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 COP26 Talks
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:
DIA Sustainability Survey
The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland
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
Request for Interest
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.
BBC Home Restoration Programme -
Open call for projects
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!
DIA AGM 2021
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.
ADAS Student Events
Tickets for RIAS organised events and their most up to date news can be found on their website here.