Tinyments are tiny, 6 cm tall models of traditional Scottish tenements made out of nickel silver, like the one pictured below, or cardboard (the ones in carboard are bigger).

You can get them from finchandfouracre’s Etsy shop.

Completed in August 2009, the John Hope Gateway Building, the new west entrance of the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh designed by Edward Cullinan Architects, is built of timber, glass and stone, and encomprises a range of renewable energy systems including biomass fuelled boilers, rainwater recovery, and a roof mounted wind turbine.

The building will house exhibitions, a studio space for demonstrations and exploration into the world of plants.

[Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh, 20a Inverleith Row, Edinburgh, EH3 5QH - phone: 0131 552 7171]

[top image via Edward Cullinan Architects; photos by Giorgio Granozio]

BBC Scotland arts correspondent Pauline McLean will be chairing Scotland: Building for the Future, a conference on Scotland’s post-war architecture, at the Bonar Hall at the University of Dundee on 24th November 2009, organised by Historic Scotland, the executive agency of the Scottish Government charged with safeguarding the nation’s historic environment.

The conference will be opened by Michael Russell MSP, Minister for Culture, External Affairs and the Constitution; programme includes speakers from Historic Scotland, Raymond Young of A+DS, Neil Baxter of RIAS, David Page of Page and Park Architects, Miles Glendinning of Edinburgh College of Art and Janet McBain of the National Library of Scotland.

Everybody can get involved by submitting a question to the panel discussion.

Further info on www.celebratingscotlandsarchitecture.org.

New York-based practice Steven Holl is the winner of the “Mackintosh” contest to design a £50 million new building for the Glasgow School of Art (GSA), right opposite the beautiful building by Charles Rennie Mackintosh in Renfrew Street, Garnethill.

It will be Steven Holl’s first project in UK and it will be delivered with the help of Scottish practice JM Architects.

Below, architectural drawings of the old C R Mackintosh GSA building, completed in 1909:

[via AJ]