Mactaggart & Mickel
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Architecture Grand Prix sponsorship
Mactaggart & Mickel has been building hand crafting award-winning homes for more than eighty years and is one of Scotland’s most respected house builders. The past year has been the company’s most successful ever, with record pre-tax profits of £16.5m on a turnover of £53.9m.
The cornerstone of the company’s success has always been the quality of design and the attention to detail lavished on every property from one bedroom contemporary apartments at Kirkfield in Renfrew through to five bedroom traditional luxury villas at White Court at The Rise in Largs.
Mactaggart & Mickel knows that to build the best homes in Scotland you have to work in tandem with the best architects and it has done this with award-winning results such as the innovative townhouse it designed, in partnership with Austin Smith Lord, for the Homes for the Future project at Glasgow Green. The property received a number of awards including a Civic Trust Award and is considered by many as a landmark in good design.
However, this is just one of the many awards the company has picked up - for example The Drum in Bo’ness also won a Homes for Scotland Design Award. Plans have been recently submitted to build a further 180 homes at The Drum which will feature fresh, groundbreaking designs.
Innovative architecture will also play a crucial part in the creation of new contemporary apartments at St Marks Quay, Lochrin Basin in Fountainbridge in Edinburgh, including the extension of the Union Canal.
The company passionately believes that it is only by continually innovating in terms of the design, sustainability of products, and building techniques that it can maintain its reputation as one of the UK’s finest housebuilders.
That’s why Mactaggart & Mickel is keen that the very best architects in this country’s efforts should be recognised and rewarded. The company is delighted to have been given the opportunity to sign up as sponsors of the Architecture Grand Prix prize at the Scottish Design Awards 2007.