An archive of the UK's nuclear legacy is housed inside this angular structure by Reiach and Hall Architects, which has been named Scotland's best new building by the RIAS.

Located in Wick, in the north of Scotland, Nucleus houses the local archive of the country of Caithness, which is accessible to the public and dates back to 1589.
But it also contains the far more private archive of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) – the government body set up to manage the cleanup of the UK's civil nuclear industry – including records, plans and photos from over 17 facilities across the country.

The building, which opened in 2017, was selected ahead of 11 other shortlisted designs to win the RIAS's Andrew Doolan Award for 2018, announced at the new V&A Dundee on 7 November.  It was praised for being "an impressive industrial building which contributes to its context in this remote and challenging location in the far north of Scotland".

Commissioned by the NDA, the £21 million building sits on on a former RAF site in Wick. This area was chosen as it was deemed as being most affected by the decommissioning of nuclear power stations. 
Dounreay Nuclear Power Station, located 30 some miles from Wick on the north coast of Caithness, was one of the area's largest employers. It still employs some 2,000 workers in its ongoing decommissioning, a process that is expected to complete in 2030.

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