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Project: Eastgate
Theatre and Arts Centre

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

image by Richard Murphy Architects
Best Building in Scotland 2004 RIAS PR:

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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.

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.

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.

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
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