Gogar Business Park, Edinburgh, Scotland by Richard Meier
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Business Park: Maybury / Gogar, Edinburgh for New Edinburgh Limited (NEL) by Richard Meier + Campbell & Arnott
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 in Summer 2001. The southern extension of this Edinburgh business park - Edinburgh Park Expansion Phase 2 - was announced in October 2001.
Edinburgh Park G4 Competition
2001
Winner: Campbell & Arnott
Runner-up: Gordon Murray + Alan Dunlop Architects
G4 Competition : for Site G's last block
BT Building, Site B
1999
Bennetts Associates
image © keith hunter
Alexander Graham Bell House
John Menzies Building, Site D
1994
Bennetts Associates
John Menzies Building
Aegon Headquarters Building, D3 - Site D
2000
Lee Boyd
Aegon Scotland : former Adobe Headquarters Building
F1 Xansa, Site F
1999
Parr Partnership
Xansa Edinburgh
Intelligent Finance, F2, Site F
2000
Parr Partnership
Intelligent Finance Edinburgh
UDV Global Headquarters, G1 - Edinburgh Park Site G
1999
Allan Murray Architects
Diageo Scotland
Lochside House - G2 Lochside House, Site G
1999
Lee Boyd
image © keith hunter
HQ Edinburgh : was headquarters for the HQ company
G3, Site G
1999
Page & Park Architects
image © keith hunter
Edinburgh Park office : Speculative office development
Site A Masterplan
2001
Allan Murray Architects
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 no City of Edinburgh Rapid Transport (CERT). This 'tram' system was to stop 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 above).
A1, Site A
2001
Allan Murray Architects
Edinburgh Park property : partial fit-out in 2008 for Applecross
Oracle Edinburgh A2, Site A
2001
Allan Murray Architects
image © keith hunter
Oracle Edinburgh
JP Morgan Chase, A3 - Site A
2001
Gordon Murray + Alan Dunlop Architects
JP Morgan Chase Scotland
Miller Offices, A4, Site A
2001
CZWG Architects
A4 by Piers Gough / CZWG
Edinburgh Park Phase One:
RBS Younger Building
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Michael Laird Architects
RBS Younger Building
Edinburgh Park Station
Integrated Design Partnership
image : Frazer Hay
Edinburgh Park Expansion: Next Phase - Southern Phase
Edinburgh Park design : H4 Building
Reiach and Hall Architects
Scottish Parliament
Edinburgh Park Competition : Southern Phase - images from MLA
Reiach and Hall Architects, winner
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
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