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Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh : Architecture

Surgeons College : Edinburgh, Scotland - Benson + Forsyth project


Royal College of Surgeons

The Royal College of Surgeons, Nicholson Street, Edinburgh
1832
William Henry Playfair

Abandoned Project by Benson + Forsyth:
Royal College of Surgeons, Scotland
image © Benson + Forsyth

Royal College of Surgeons Nicholson St, Edinburgh William Henry Playfair Benson + Forsyth
images © Benson + Forsyth


Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh: 2004 Update
Recently Benson + Forsyth Architects have been working on an addition to the south (featured in August 2004 Architecture Today). The College houses a library, the Anatomy Museum in the Playfair Hall, a Dental Museum and the Sir Jules Thorn Exhibition of the History of Surgery.

Royal College of Surgeons Lister Room William Playfair Benson + Forsyth
images © Benson + Forsyth

The Royal College of Surgeons is the oldest medical society in the English-speaking world, being founded in 1505. The Nicholson Street site was purchased because the Old Surgeon's Hall had become insufficient to meet the needs of the College.

Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh surgeons William Playfair Benson + Forsyth
plans © Benson + Forsyth

Now part of the college is an adjacent building which once housed the Scottish Oceanographical Laboratory. Lister, the Father of Modern Surgery, attended the College and is remembered in the Lister Room.

Edinburgh Architecture Benson + Forsyth
sections © Benson + Forsyth

The Edinburgh’s Royal College of Surgeons is one of three professional, training and examining bodies for surgeons in the UK.

Surgeons Hall Extension
image © Benson + Forsyth

Surgeons Hall Edinburgh
Royal College of Surgeons Edinbrugh: image © Benson + Forsyth

£10.9m The Surgeons Hall Extension, central Edinburgh (approved go ahead 03.05.02) www.surgeonsnews.info/docs/issue1-2/pdfs/hallhill.pdf

Playfair Hall, Surgeons Hall Edinburgh
Royal College of Surgeons Edinbrugh: image © Benson + Forsyth

Royal College of Surgeons Extension
The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh has had detailed plans granted for a £5m university alteration in Edinburgh. The contractor is the Peter Walker Group.
Jul 2004

Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh Architect: William Henry Playfair

Quincentenary Hall
New building adjacent to historic Surgeons Hall, due for completion Autumn 2006

Quincentenary Hall
Royal College Surgeons Edinburgh - Quincentenary Hall photo © adrian welch

Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh - Quincentenary Hall

The Royal College of Surgeons site was originally a Riding School.


Opposite the Edinburgh Royal College of Surgeons is Edinburgh Festival Theatre

Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh

Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh former Project Architect: Benson + Forsyth



 




Benson + Forsyth buildings / projects in Edinburgh:-
Museum of Scotland
Library Extension
Royal College of Surgeons
Scottish Parliament Competition Leith

Surgeons Hall Extension
Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh images © Benson + Forsyth

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Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh : page - adrian welch / isabelle lomholt

 






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