| Edinburgh, Richard
Meier Architects Business Park: Maybury / Gogar, Edinburgh for New Edinburgh Limited (NEL) by Richard Meier + Campbell & Arnott
New Edinburgh Limited is a joint venture between Miller Construction & EDI |
| Edinburgh
Park was masterplanned by Richard
Meier of Richard Meier Architects (with local assistance by Campbell
& Arnott) from 1993. This edge-of-town Business Park - formerly 'Maybury
Park' - at the South Gyle at times feels barren and unfriendly despite good
efforts to introduce landscaping. The new, western section includes some
good buildings and good landscaping. There is an unfortunate preponderance of lacklustre 'commercial' buildings from the eighties at Edinburgh Park and even the 'published' buildings suffer from a Janus-type problem (along the main North-South strip) with the public arriving at the East façade beside the attractive lochan only to discover that they must go round the back to gain entry. The distasteful expanses of car park may be a thing of the past as recent Edinburgh Park masterplans show a much higher density with interesting attempts at urbanity, by Allan Murray Architects, CZWG Architects (Piers Gough) and Gordon Murray + Alan Dunlop Architects. More positive action came in the way of a Design Competition for the G4 site [below right], in Summer 2001. The southern expansion of this Edinburgh business park - Edinburgh Park Phase 2 - was announced in October 2001 |
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| Winner: Campbell
& Arnott Runner-up: Gordon Murray + Alan Dunlop Architects Competition for Site G's last block: G4 Competition |
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Bennetts Associates BT Building, Site B, 1999 Private Alexander Graham Bell House |
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Bennetts Associates John Menzies Building, Site D, 1994 PrivateProficient but unexuberant early Park building. |
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Lee Boyd D3 - Aegon Headquarters Building Former Adobe Headquarters Building, Site D, 1998-99; 99-00 Aegon Scotland |
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Parr Partnership F1 Xansa, Site F, 1999 Private Xansa Edinburgh |
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| Parr Partnership F2 IF / Halifax, Site F, 1999-2000 Private Intelligent Finance Edinburgh |
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| Allan
Murray Architects G1 - UDV Global Headquarters, Edinburgh Park Site G, 1999 Private UDV Scotland |
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| Lee Boyd G2 Lochside House, Site G, 1999 Private: New headquarters for the HQ company HQ Edinburgh |
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| Page & Park Architects G3, Site G, 1999 Private: Speculative office development G3 |
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| Allan Murray Architects Site A Masterplan, 1997-2001; fit-outs ongoing Private: shells completed, some fit-outs complete The most visible site in the Park has been re-designed from Meier's original vision with a much higher density. There are less ugly surface car parks (now almost all underground) but sadly no City of Edinburgh Rapid Transport (CERT). This 'tram' system should have stopped here on its way from airport to city centre and back again, proposed in 2000. Buildings A1 (facing the Gogar roundabout), A2 (adjacent to BT Building), and the small A5 pavilion by the lochan all by Allan Murray Architects: original model right: |
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| Allan Murray Architects A1, Site A, 1997-2001 Private: shell completed, on site A1 |
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Allan Murray Architects A2, Site A, 1997-2001 Private: fit-out completed Oracle Edinburgh |
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Gordon Murray + Alan Dunlop Architects A3 - JP Morgan Chase Site A, 1997-2001 Private: fit-out handed over late 2001 JP Morgan Chase Scotland |
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| CZWG Architects A4, Site A, 1998-2001 Private: shell completed, Miller are tenants A4 by Piers Gough / CZWG |
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| Edinburgh
Park Phase One Michael Laird Architects RBS Younger Building |
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| Edinburgh Park Station, Edinburgh |
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Edinburgh Walking Tours Edinburgh Park Expansion: Next Phase - Southern Phase Reiach and Hall Architects Edinburgh Park : H4 Building ![]() Scottish Parliament Edinburgh Park - News from the area: South Gyle Business Park - offered for sale summer 2006 by Dunedin Property reportedly at offers over £47m Dunedin Property reportedly offering 'The Stones' for sale Feb 2007 - 3 office buildings, currently occupied by Royal Bank of Scotland. Edinburgh offices - South Gyle: E3 site purchased by Arlington Securities: South Gyle Broadway plot formerly used by Scottish & Newcastle for their distribution facility Scottish Architecture Edinburgh Buildings : back to index Edinburgh Park : Southern Phase Competition image from MLA |