Hoskins Architects has won Scotland’s biggest architectural prize for its decade-long extension and upgrade of Aberdeen Art Gallery.

The project at the 19^th-century category A-listed building created new exhibition and education spaces and introduced a dramatic copper-clad roof among a series of striking contemporary interventions.

Doolan Award judges said that as part of the process the building’s services and environmental performance had been thoroughly upgraded and the gallery’s art handling, storage and back-of-house facilities revitalised.

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