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BT Building, HQ, Edinburgh Park Alexander Graham Bell House, Scotland, UK landscaping by Ian White Associates |
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Bennetts Associates Alexander Graham Bell Building - Offices, South Gyle, Scotland 1999 ![]() image © keith hunter from Bennetts Associates Private Situated at entry to Edinburgh Park the BT building consists of a rectilinear block with an attached red-coloured block (within a skeletal drum) facing the Gyle Broadway. ![]() BT Edinburgh: interior image from Bennetts Associates The materials inside are restrained and of high quality, and the building is helped by informal water landscaping to the front by Ian White Associates. ![]() Alexander Graham Bell House - BT Building image from Bennetts Associates The red block to the East (café below, plant on top) sheathed in a circular foil of brise soleil marks the main entry to the Park; five atria plus a triple-height 'street' form the main building's spaces. ![]() interior image from Bennetts Associates Alexander Graham Bell House represents a serious attempt to produce a passively-ventilated building without losing architectural repose: it follows on ideas from Powergen Headquarters in Coventry, also by Bennetts Associates. ![]() BT Edinburgh: building image from Bennetts Associates ![]() image from Bennetts Associates ![]() image from Bennetts Associates Bennetts Associates BT Building - approx. build cost: £24m ![]() BT Edinburgh Building: interior image by Steffen Schefer Early Bennetts Associates building: John Menzies building at Edinburgh Park, Site D, in 1994 Edinburgh Park Architecture British Telecom Building - Telecom House Scottish Architecture: best Scottish Buildings of the last three decades Edinburgh : back to index ![]() Alexander Graham Bell House - pattern: image by Steffen Schefer Edinburgh Offices BT Headquarters in Glasgow is located on the Broomielaw in a building by Fitzroy Robinson British Telecom Building - BT Tower, London Comments or building suggestions / photos for the Bennetts Associates Architecture pages welcome: +44 (0)1620 825722 +44 (0)7952 149814 |