North Holyrood Masterplan, Edinburgh, Photos, Building, Image, Architect, Project Old Town Redevelopment, Scotland by John Hope, Architect

Holyrood Masterplan, Edinburgh

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. Richard Murphy Architects Royal Fine Arts Commission, Bakehouse Close 1996 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. Richard Murphy Architects Canongate Housing, 112 Canongate 1999 Private Housing & ground-floor shop. Quirky low-budget housing with a contemporary twist Malcolm Fraser Architects Scottish Poetry Library, Crichton's Close 1999 Sensitive steel-framed addition to another close off the Royal Mile using oak cladding and blue terracotta tiles Arcade Architects Crichton's Close Housing Ungless & Latimer rhetorical: Crichton House, offices Michael Hopkins & Partners Dynamic Earth, Holyrood Road 1999 Trademark Hopkins parachuted into town Our Dynamic Earth Scotsman Newspaper CDA Architects Holyrood Park House CDA Architects Campbell & Arnott Architects The Park Edinburgh: housing Macdonald Hotel Edinburgh Hendry & Legge Architects Allan Murray Architects The Tun, Holyrood Rd 1999-2001 This long thin building adds another bone to the Old Town's famous herringbone street pattern. An old brick warehouse is fused to a dramatic new section which rises on angled concrete stilts with green pre-patinated copper facades and leans out over the footpath. The north half of The Tun Edinburgh retains the orginal facades with new concrete floors inserted behind. Soffits are exposed and are of coffered concrete with metal decking in upper floors. Finishes are simple with fair-faced concrete offset by rich wall colours and deligthful balustrade landing wraps Allan Murray Architects The Clocktower refurbishment, Holyrood Rd 2003- E & F McLachlan Old Town Housing for OTHA, Holyrood 1999 Ungless & Latimer Morgan Court Housing, Holyrood 1998 Van Heyningnen & Haward Housing - 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