Journal

  • Assemble at the Tramway

    Assemble at the Tramway

    Assemble have won the Turner prize, which turns the focus of the art world onto grassroots community projects. How about other projects which reach across the traditional boundaries to breathe life into remarkable buildings? I can think of a few, starting with the boiler house project in Melrose. And do you know what, in two years…

  • Hilla Becher

    Hilla Becher

    Fascinating obituaries of Hilla Becher, part of the photographer duo Hilla and Bernhard Becher who travelled Europe and the States documenting the industrial archaeology of their era.

  • Eildon Hills in paint

    Eildon Hills in paint

    My mother came in from a visit to the National Gallery of Scotland with an idyllic landscape painting by James Ward, 1807, centring on the distinctive double nipples of the Eildon Hills. Those trout fishermen standing there in the River Tweed still exist today, reserve a unit at the boilerhouse project and you can be…

  • Abbotsford spoon

    Abbotsford spoon

    I can’t compete with Private Eye “Me and My Spoon” but I have to record that I spotted a perfect miniature Abbotsford House on a spoon at my local coffee shop, Filament, (they do have a diverse spoon collection as well as faultless coffee). Abbotsford was of course the home of author Sir Walter Scott, who…

  • The Modern House

    The Modern House

    Delighted to see theboilerhouseproject.com on the Journal page of themodernhouse.net in the “What We’re Seeing” section.

  • more web coverage on Docomomo International

    more web coverage on Docomomo International

    Good to feature on the news page of the Docomomo International site

  • The Boilerhouse Project featured on the spaces.com

    The Boilerhouse Project featured on the spaces.com

    Nice piece on the Boilerhouse project on thespaces.com

  • Wild raspberries at Dingleton, Melrose

    Wild raspberries at Dingleton, Melrose

    Wild raspberry harvest from today’s site visit. I glimpsed a lamppost adjacent to the Boilerhouse site, it chimes with the audio book of “The Magician’s Nephew” by CS Lewis we had just been listening to!

  • Womersley’s office on the Scottish Screen Archive

    Womersley’s office on the Scottish Screen Archive

    I just received a link from Docomomo Scotland to a brilliant short film with footage taken back in 1970 of Womersley’s office! Click on the link and watch from 13 minutes in. It’s a Scottish Screen Archive film essentially celebrating the Borders and is available online on the National Library of Scotland website.