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
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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
Old Town
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.
North Holyrood Masterplan

Richard Murphy Architects
Canongate Housing, 112 Canongate
1999
canongate
Private Housing & ground-floor shop. Quirky low-budget housing with a contemporary twist

Malcolm Fraser Architects
Scottish Poetry Library, Crichton's Close
1999
North Holyrood
Sensitive steel-framed addition to another close off the Royal Mile using oak cladding and blue terracotta tiles

Arcade Architects

Crichton's Close Housing
Old Town

Ungless & Latimer
rhetorical: Crichton House, offices
North Holyrood

Michael Hopkins & Partners
Dynamic Earth, Holyrood Road
1999
North Holyrood
Trademark Hopkins parachuted into town
Our Dynamic Earth

Scotsman Newspaper
CDA Architects
Old Town

Holyrood Park House
CDA Architects
Holyrood

Campbell & Arnott Architects
The Park Edinburgh: housing
North Holyrood

Macdonald Hotel Edinburgh
Hendry & Legge Architects
Canongate

Allan Murray Architects
The Tun, Holyrood Rd
1999-2001
Holyrood Rd
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
North Holyrood

Allan Murray Architects
The Clocktower refurbishment, Holyrood Rd
2003-
Old Town

E & F McLachlan
Old Town Housing for OTHA, Holyrood
1999
Edinburgh

Ungless & Latimer
Morgan Court Housing, Holyrood
1998
Holyrood

Van Heyningnen & Haward
Housing
-
Old Town
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

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