Fife Architects Featured in Scottish Field Magazine – Energy Efficient Home Renovation
Fife Architects Featured in Scottish Field Magazine We are thrilled to share that one of our recent whole house renovation and extension projects has been featured in the latest issue of Scottish Field Magazine! The project, located in the coastal town of Anstruther,...
Build It Feature May 2024 – Energy Efficient New Build Home
This new build house was designed as a new energy-efficient family home sited in a vacant lot within the Colinsburgh Conservation Area. The new simply designed house marries current styles of architecture with traditional building techniques and evokes a style that...
Homebuild & Renovations April 2024 – Sustainable Oak-Framed Extension in Fife, Scotland
Sustainable Oak-Framed Extension in Fife, Scotland Completed in August 2023 this idyllic Green oak-framed extension to a Scottish home embracing sustainable, nature-inspired design. With carbon-neutral timber framing, indoor-outdoor living spaces, and Scandinavian...
New Build Heat Standard 2024 : An end to gas boilers for new build houses!
In April 2024, building regulations will change to prevent the use of ‘direct emission heating (DEH)’ systems in new buildings, and some conversions. These are systems which use more than a ‘negligible’ level of greenhouse gas emissions. In practice, this means that...
Building Futures: A Post-Pandemic Update on Some of Our Recent Home Improvement Projects – Part 2
Hey there, welcome back to Part 2 of our exciting journey through the projects that have sprung to life in the wake of the pandemic. If you've been following since Part 1, you're already in the loop about the special circumstances that have fueled our collaborative...
Building Futures: A Post-Pandemic Update on Some of Our Recent Home Improvement Projects – Part 1
Welcome to our latest update! After what feels like a lifetime of uncertainty during the pandemic, we are thrilled to share just how busy and bustling our practice has been lately. As the world gradually regained its footing, so did the construction and design...
New Year, new office, we’re all new!
A lot has been happening here at Fife Architects since the New Year! It’s nice to take a breath and reflect on what we’ve been up to and why we do it… New Office Fife Architects have been tenants at 15 Station Road, St Monans for over 2 years now, (since the building...
Fife Architects attend the 2019 Home Building & Renovation Show in Edinburgh
In October 2019, Fife Architects attended the Home Building & Renovation Show in Edinburgh. This was our first time exhibiting in a trade show and having made the decision to exhibit early in the year, and after a few weeks of preparation we were really looking...
Our Low Energy New Build House Featured in ‘Homes & Interior Scotland’ Magazine
Our recently completed low-energy new build house project in Charlestown, Fife has been featured in August's edition of Home & Interior Scotland Magazine. Completed in 2019 this low energy new build house sits on a historic coastal site at Iron Mill Bay,...
Fife Architects secure planning permission for a modern coastal home renovation and extension
Fife Architects have secured planning permission for an extensive house renovation and extension to a coastal property in Elie, Fife. The project will see an already converted farm building overlooking the Golf Course modernised using a costal and industrial design...
Fife Architects win ‘Best Small Project’ Award
We are delighted to announce the Fife Architects won an award for 'Best Small Project' at this year’s Dundee Institute of Architects Design Awards for our Timber Clad Extension & Internal Alterations, Pittenweem.The project comprised a pair of timber extensions to...
On the drawing board for 2018: Renovations and extensions
2018 has seen Fife Architects design several new renovation projects for private clients. Here we have included a few examples of projects currently at the initial design stage. They include a pair of extensions and upgrades to homes in Crail, a modest green roof...
Our School house renovation project amongst the best residential architecture in Scotland
We are very pleased to announce that our School House Renovation project has been selected as one of the 100 Best Residential Architecture Projects in Scotland of the past 20 years. The project was selected by the RIAS and featured in their book "2020...
Fife Architects win Graphisoft Archicad Award!
We are very happy to announce that our new build house project in Charlestown has won a Graphisoft Archicad Award 2017 for Small Project of the Year. Archicad is the industry-leading BIM software and the award recognises excellence in the use the software...
On the drawing board: New renovation projects for 2017
2017 is proving to be a very busy year already and since January we have begun a number of new renovations which are currently in the initial design stage. Included here are three brief examples to showcase some of the different projects that we have been working on....
Fife Architects win design award for eco-renovation
We are still in a celebratory mood after winning the award for 'Best Small Project' at this year’s Dundee Institute of Architects Design Awards for our Easter Fernie School House renovation near Cupar. The schoolhouse 'eco-renovation' saw the refurbishment and...
Fife Architects featured in ‘Living Magazine’ Autumn Issue
We are delighted to be featured in Living Magazine's autumn issue published by DC Thomson. The article features our Millring Conversion project near Pittenweem in Fife. Designed and managed by partner architect Lucy Beltran, the article briefly describes the...
Our industrial house design gets planning approval
We have exciting news to share // Our new house design for a site in Fife has received full planning permission. The new family home will be situated on a coastal site just outside Charlestown near Dunfermline. The site is on the shoreline of the Firth of Forth and...
Fresh House Renovation Projects
We have several new projects on the go focusing on practical house renovation ideas and modern home extensions. The projects are all in the initial design stage and include a ground floor house renovation and extension in Elie, a timber clad extension of an artist's...
New year, new projects
Happy New Year to you all...2016 is shaping up to be a busy and challenging year here at Fife Architects in a good way! Fired up with 'January oomph' we are currently working on a new build house at an unusual plot nestled on the shores of the Forth, south...
Site Visits: Oak Frame Extension and a Refurbished School House
We have news on two current residential projects: the first an oak frame extension with internal alterations to a B listed property in the picturesque village of Falkland and the second, the complete renovation and extension of a former school house set in rolling...
Fife Architects Finalists in Herald Property Awards 2015
We have two lots of good news to share with you in this post. Firstly, we were excited to hear that we are finalists in the Herald Property Awards for Scotland 2015 Best Renovation/Conversion category announced just last week. The awards were started in 2007 and aim...
House in the Woods featured in Real Homes Magazine August 2015
We are pleased to see one of projects House In The Woods - a kitchen dining extension in rural Fife - featured in the current issue of Real Homes Magazine (August issue) in their 6 page style guide to timber clad extensions. We were commissioned by the owners to...
New Project: Doocot Conversion
We are delighted to announce that we have been appointed to develop the conversion of a former Doocot near Pittenweem in Fife. The project will seek to restore some of the traditional features of this amazing building while also converting it into a luxury, one...
Something old, something new
Sometimes it’s good to pause, take a breath, look back at what has gone before and give yourself a mini retrospective. So for this post we are sharing with you a selection of projects we have worked on and which for one reason or another have yet to feature on our...
New Projects: Contemporary Family Home and New Oak Frame Extension
Fife Architects have just submitted planning applications for two new exciting projects one in Fife & the other in Perthshire. The first of the two projects proposed is for an exciting transformation of a small traditional farm cottage near Ladybank. The...
Fife Architects current projects update
What's happening at Fife Architects? Here is quick snapshot of our current workload and projects. We currently have three jobs on site, the first is a conversion of a tenement flat in Glasgow. This project includes the complete redesign of both bathroom and...
House by the Woods shortlisted for RIAS Awards 2014
We are delighted to say that our timber extension project 'House by the Woods' has been shortlisted for an RIAS award this year. A total of 27 projects have been shortlisted for this year’s RIAS/RIBA Awards and the winners will be announced at a ceremony on the 18...
Our Timber Extensions are Featured in Home & Interiors Scotland!
We are happy to announce that our pair of timber-clad extensions in the East Neuk have been featured as a case study in the recent 'Building & Renovating' supplement of Home & Interiors Scotland. We really enjoyed working on this one and feel lucky to have...
Intelligent Buildings // Innovative Futures
We are excited to announce that a new edition of Intelligent Buildings edited by Prof. Derek Clements-Croome has now been published and includes a chapter written by Fermín Beltrán. The chapter, which is the closing chapter in the book, is titled "Innovative...