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Holyrood Masterplan, Edinburgh : Architecture Information
West Holyrood Masterplan Edinburgh City Council planners recommending approval Mar 2007 Holyrood Masterplan North Holyrood - News Update building: photo © adrian welch Last building on site at North Holyrood, adj. The Tun, Frank Spratt site behind The Clocktower: Offices by 3D Architects Bakehouse Close, Holyrood building: photo © adrian welch Location: off Canongate - Royal Mile The area to the south of the Canongate was masterplanned by Edinburgh-based architect John Hope who selected mainly young design-led practices to participate in its re-development. All the contemporary buildings on this page emerged from this masterplan. The RFAC (5) was the first completed. Most of these buildings are also listed in the Old Town Tour but gathered here for people interested in how they relate to the masterplan. The North Holyrood Masterplan has few detractors and is widely viewed in Edinburgh as a successful model for marrying the new to the old. Royal Fine Arts Commission, Bakehouse Close Richard Murphy Architects photo © adrian welch Since 2005 Architecture + Design Scotland The famous Old Town 'herringbone pattern' drawing (right), shows the skeletal structure of the High Street. It's backbone follows the glacial crag-and-tail ridge line from the volcanic plug of the Castle rock down to the Palace of Holyroodhouse. There are hundreds of vennels or closes running off it; in the past there were more but buildings such as the Crowne Plaza have destroyed many. In the last two decades some have been restored. Canongate Housing, 112 Canongate Richard Murphy Architects photo © adrian welch Private Housing & ground-floor shop. Quirky low-budget housing with a contemporary twist Scottish Poetry Library, Crichton's Close Malcolm Fraser Architects photo © Keith Hunter Sensitive steel-framed addition to another close off the Royal Mile using oak cladding and blue terracotta tiles Crichton's Close Housing Arcade Architects photo © adrian welch rhetorical: Crichton House, offices Ungless & Latimer photo © adrian welch Dynamic Earth, Holyrood Road Michael Hopkins & Partners photo © adrian welch Our Dynamic Earth : trademark Hopkins parachuted into town Scotsman Newspaper CDA Architects photo © adrian welch Holyrood Park House CDA Architects The Park Edinburgh: housing Campbell & Arnott Architects photo © adrian welch Macdonald Hotel Edinburgh Hendry & Legge Architects photo © adrian welch The Tun, Holyrood Rd Allan Murray Architects The Tun Edinburgh The Clocktower refurbishment, Holyrood Rd Allan Murray Architects Old Town Housing for OTHA, Holyrood E & F McLachlan image © Steffen Schefer Morgan Court Housing, Holyrood Ungless & Latimer photo © adrian welch Van Heyningnen & Haward Housing Van Heyningnen & Haward photo © adrian welch located just to the north of Morgan Court and south across the close from the RFAC Scottish Architecture Edinburgh Walking Tours Buildings adjacent to the North Holyrood Masterplan: Scottish Parliament Palace of Holyroodhouse West Holyrood Masterplan: John Hope, Architect Masterplan : shops, offices, flats, new academic buildings, underground parking, gardens Campus owners: Edinburgh University Location: between Royal Mile & Holyrood Road 01.09.03 Edinburgh News : back to index Buildings / photos for the North Holyrood Masterplan Architecture pages welcome: info@edinburgharchitecture.co.uk North Holyrood - Building : page - adrian welch / isabelle lomholt