Shop + Multrees Walk, St Andrew Square, Edinburgh
both developments by Comprehensive Design Architects (CDA)
Interiors by Lifschutz Davidson Architects, London
Harvey Nichols Shop: 30 - 34 St Andrew Square, Edinburgh 0131 524 8388
Forth Floor - Harvey Nichols Edinburgh 0131 524 8350
The Walk: St Andrew Square
image above by Comprehensive Design, the base build architects
Harvey Nichols Edinburgh is a 90,000sqft, £11m department store.
Forth Floor restaurant: evening view looking north-west supplied by Harvey Nichols PR agency
This luxury store stocks Yves Saint Laurent rive gauche - in Scotland for the first time - Prada, Gucci, 7, Dior, Comme des Garçons and Homme. ‘Harvey Nix’ foodmarket includes a charcuterie, patisserie and wine shop. Previously the closest Harvey Nichols store was in Leeds.
image from Harvey Nichols PR agency
Harvey Nichols began in 1813 when Benjamin Harvey opened a linen shop in Knightsbridge, London. In 1820 the business passed on to Benjamin’s daughter on the understanding that she went into partnership with a Colonel Nichols, hence Harvey Nichols.
image from Harvey Nichols PR agency
The London store was opened in the 1880s. Debenhams purchased it in 1919 and in 1985 became part of the Burton Group, before being sold again. In 1996, the Harvey Nichols Group launched the Oxo Tower Restaurant on London’s South Bank.
image from Harvey Nichols PR agency
Harvey Nichols have Stores in London, Leeds, Birmingham, Riyadh
Harvey Nichols Dining - Restaurant Review
Harvey Nichols Store - Interior Architect - Building PR
Lifschutz Davdison
image from Harvey Nichols PR agency
Forth Floor Restaurant - Building PR
Harvey Nichols Store - Building PR
image from harvey nichols PR agency
image by keith hunter
Fifth Floor at Harvey Nichols in London was the inspiration and was developed in 1992: the first proper restaurant to be situated within a department store.
Shopping Development
Multrees Walk, St Andrew Square, Edinburgh
The Walk / Harvey Nichols: images above by keith hunter
The Harvey Nichols project entailed the redevelopment of Edinburgh's St
Andrew Square Bus Station site replacing the 1960/70s office blocks and
bus station with a new open pedestrian street – Multrees Walk - linking
the St James Centre to St Andrew Square and George Street. A covered bus
station containing 18 operational and 5 layover stances with airport style
internal public facilities is included in the scheme, just to the north of
Harvey Nichols and Multrees Walk.
images by Comprehensive Design Architects
The retail development above the bus station focuses on Multrees Walk, the
first new street in Edinburgh's New Town since the late 18th century. The
Walk provides a high quality pedestrian urban environment and replaces the
previous tortuous pedestrian route through the vehicular environment of
the old bus station.
images by keith hunter
The design of the street is based on research and analysis by CDA of
street widths and building sizes in central Edinburgh to achieve the right
proportions and rhythms for the site located, as it is, in Edinburgh's
historic New Town Conservation Area and World Heritage Site. A 'court' is
positioned halfway along the street to form a focal point for the new
shopping experience, a café with outdoor seating may be located in the
court.
images by keith hunter
Edinburgh's new Harvey Nichols sits at the corner of the Walk and
St Andrew Square with the new Louis Vuitton store opposite. A further 26
shop units front onto the Walk and its courtyard including an Armani
store. These are currently being marketed to high quality retailers. Above
the shops is a 40,000ft² suite of offices.
Harvey Nichols Edinburgh - photo by keith hunter
Multrees Walk is surfaced with Caithness stone and Granite setts. The
buildings in the new street are designed and finished to reflect the
quality and ambience of Edinburgh's New Town with the facades finished in
sandstone, granite and natural slate. CDA’s design of the new buildings
and their details is modern and restrained.
image by Comprehensive Design
The Harvey Nichols / Multrees Walk project was completed on time in Autumn
2002 on budget at a construction cost of £32m.
image by Comprehensive Design
Harvey Nichols Edinburgh - Project Team
Client - Coal Pension Properties /
LaSalle Investment Management
Architect - CDA
Agents - McGregor Chartered Surveyors
Cushman & Wakefield Healey & Baker
Solicitor - DLA
Structural Engineer - Goodson Associates
M&E Engineer - Graham Mather Associates
Quantity Surveyor - CBA
Lighting Designer - Jonathan Speirs Associates
Highways Engineer - Faber Maunsell
Design & Build Contractor - Balfour Beatty Construction Ltd
image by Comprehensive Design (CDA)
The Walk: St Andrew Square
image above by Comprehensive Design (CDA)
Harvey Nichols - UK Stores:-
109 - 125 Knightsbridge, London SW1X 7RJ
020 7235 5000
107-111 Briggate, Leeds LS1 6AZ
0113 204 8888
31/32 Wharfside St, Birmingham, B1 1RE
0121 616 6000
30 - 34 St Andrew Sq, Edinburgh EH2 3AD
0131 524 8388
21 New Cathedral St Manchester M1 1AD
0161 828 8888
Harvey Nichols also have a Store in Al Faisaliah Mall, Olaya, Riyadh 11351, Saudi Arabia.
Contact details correct at time of writing, Oct 2004.
building image above by CDA
Adjacent buildings include Scottish Provident, St James Centre and Jenners
building image above by CDA
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Forth Floor Restaurant - Award
Harvey Nichols department store won an Award at the Scottish Chef of the Year Awards 2005: Stuart Muir, chef at Harvey Nichols Edinburgh: restaurant chef of the year
Harvey Nichols - Website: www.harveynichols.com