The Kilcreggan Competition ‘A future for rural communities’ intended to produce ideas which could be replicated in other rural areas to help areas keep families and businesses and attract young people to live and work. The small village competition, Kilcreggan is 40 miles outside of Glasgow, recieved 56 entries and chose Konishi Gaffney Architects as the winning design. Focusing on designing a blueprint for the survival and growth of rural communities. Konishi Gaffney Architects’ proposals provided “some particularly innovative and well considered events along a new foreshore promenade, which could form a template for other rural communities to reinvigorate their communities by improving the amenity of their settlements and making them attractive as a destination for others”.
The judging panel including GIA president and Page and Park architect Ian Hamilton, Sheppard Robson architect David Ross and Academy of Urbanism director, professor Kevin Murray. Lucid Architecture was awarded second prize and Gordon Murray Architects third. The competition was held in partnership with Roseneath Peninsula West Community Development Trust and sponsored by Community Links Scotland.
