Dublin Street, Edinburgh New Town Housing, New Town Phase 2 (Colonies), by Richard Murphy Architects

Dublin Street: Housing

Richard Murphy Architects 1993 & 2000 Private Housing: Dublin Street Lane Dublin Colonies - Insertion, Context: David Churchill image from Richard Murphy Architects Attractive Housing Association work for EDI & The Burrell Company. Dublin Street Housing is located in the Old Broughton Village, a surviving fragment of pre-New Town landscape. Stair Entry: image from Richard Murphy Architects The six two-storey houses and twenty-two flats broadly preserve the footprint of the partially-destroyed village: the organic plan marks an antithesis of the New Town formality and hierarchy. Dominant elements of external staircases, expressed roof forms and informal composition of elevations reinterpret Old Town medieval housing. Materials include white rendered walls, Western-Red Cedar boarding, galvanised metal and mesh. Dublin St house layering: image © Adrian Welch The housing is located off the north end of Dublin Street and can also be accessed from Barony Street. Houses Approx. Build Cost: £1.5m Dublin Colonies, Edinburgh: Richard Murphy, Architects won a Saltire Commendation in 2000 with Watson Construction Ltd Scottish Architecture: best scottish buildings of the last three decades Edinburgh Houses Richard Murphy: some of the Edinburgh Buildings featured on this site: Fruitmarket Gallery Royal Fine Arts Commission Moray Place Oloroso Dublin Street Richard Murphy: some of the Scottish Buildings featured on this site: Dundee Contemporary Arts Stirling Tolbooth Edinburgh News : back to index Richard Murphy Dublin Street was a Nominee for Stirling Prize 2000