Scottish Architecture Competition : Architects Shortlist
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Candlemaker Row project by Gareth Hoskins Architects gains planning
84 - 92 Candlemaker Row, Edinburgh
Mixed-use development incorporating canteen, kitchen, workshop, community hall, offices, 13 residential units
For Hillcrest Housing Association
Application received 21/08/06
Full Planning Application Approved 26/06/07
Greyfriars Community Project
Winner: Gareth Hoskins Architects
Shortlist included Gareth Hoskins, Sutherland Hussey, Duffy & Batt, Lee Boyd, Matthew Williams
Winner selected Dec 15 2004
Gareth Hoskins Architects - Building PR Jan 2005
GREYFRIARS COMMUNITY PROJECT, EDINBURGH
Following an invited competition, Gareth Hoskins Architects have been commissioned to prepare a feasibility study for the redevelopment of the Greyfriars Kirkhouse in Edinburgh's Old Town. The joint venture between Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh City Council and Hillcrest Housing Association aims to develop a community facility that will support the homeless and disadvantaged in Edinburgh.
The proposals will focus on the continued provision and development of the site, which has long been a centre for charities and initiatives providing support services to help the homeless integrate back into the wider community. The project, at a proposed cost of £2m, will incorporate consultation rooms; training spaces to encourage and develop skills in IT, woodwork, home-making, arts and crafts; plus a public café and shop. It is also the intention to create 16 supported flats within the development. .
Gareth Hoskins Architects - Greyfriars Community Project: Building PR 10 Jan 2005
Duffy & Batt: scheme
Candlemaker Row description by one of the shortlisted architects, Duffy & Batt Architects:
The scheme illustrated has community facilities over ground and
basement floors, a series of flexible but intimate spaces opening on to
a dynamic winter garden. Apartments are contained in two separate
elements hovering above and split by a vertical extrusion of the winter
garden/core adding further amenity. The linear gushet range addresses
the cemetery-not unlike our Gallery Apartments scheme of '99-extolling
the romantic vernacular. The other bridges to the adjoining tenement
jumping up to contextually marry. A link is formed to the Kirk via a
rediscovered route bringing the body of the Kirk into the heart of the
project, historically the most important access to the City from the
Kirk per Gordon of Rothiemay's plan of 1647.
Related Duffy & Batt scheme
Building image from Duffy & Batt
Excerpt from the 'Gordon of Rothiemay plan' of 1647 showing the site:
Image from Duffy & Batt
photo : adrian welch
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Candlemaker Row context - Greyfriars Kirk
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