Theatre Peebles: Building, Architect, Box Office, Photos, Location

Arts Centre, Peebles, Scotland by Richard Murphy Architects

Eastgate Theatre



Project: Eastgate Theatre and Arts Centre

Peebles, Scotland
image by Alan Forbes

Address: High Street, Peebles, Borders
Architect: Richard Murphy
Client: Borders 1996 Company Ltd
Project cost: £2m
Completed: Mar 2004
Eastgate Theatre

Box Office telephone number 01721 725777

Peebles, Scotland
image by Richard Murphy Architects

Best Building in Scotland 2004 RIAS PR:

Richard Murphy Architects
image by Alan Forbes

A conversion of a 19th century whinstone church, to create a vibrant new
arts centre in Peebles, consisting of foyer, café, artists' changing, office and performance space and a 240 seat flexible auditorium.

Eastgate Theatre and Arts Centre
image by Alan Forbes

The new façade of the theatre completely removed the entire side wall of the
church, revealing the foyer inside and the timber box of the auditorium above it as a building within a building.

Richard Murphy Architects
image by Alan Forbes

The judges were impressed with the architects' solution for the Eastgate Theatre,
retaining the front elevation and locating the entrance at the side of the church - creating what looks like a new building. They described the project as an excellent piece of urban design.

Eastgate Theatre Scotland
image by Richard Murphy Architects



Best Building in Scotland 2004
£25,000 prize donated by Andrew Doolan and Point Hotel

4 new Scottish buildings have been shortlisted for the much-coveted RIAS
Award for Architecture - the UK's biggest architecture prize.

The Best Building in Scotland judging panel - Gordon Murray, RIAS President; Professor Andy MacMillan, Emeritus Professor, Mackintosh School of Architecture; Malcolm Fraser of Malcolm Fraser Architects; and Finnish architect Hennu Kjisik of Harris-Ksijik Architects - visited buildings across Scotland over 3 days in September.

The RIAS Award 2004 shortlisted buildings are:-

Eastgate Theatre and Arts Centre, Peebles
Architect: Richard Murphy Architects

St Aloysius College, Clavius Building, Glasgow
Architect: Elder and Cannon Architects

Maggie's Cancer Caring Respite Centre, Dundee
Design Architect: Frank Gehry (Gehry Partners LLP)
Associate Architect: James F Stephen Architects & Interior Designers

Lotte Glob House, Durness, Sutherland
Architect: Gökay Deveci

Eastgate Theatre Peebles : Best Building in Scotland shortlisted in 2004



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Eastgate Theatre Box Office telephone number 01721 725777

Eastgate Theatre & Arts Centre : Dynamic Place Awards - Built Environment
Commended 2005

Website: www.eastgatearts.com