Scottish Widows Building, Edinburgh, Office, Dalkieth Road, Property, Architect
Scottish Widows, Edinburgh
Building, Dalkieth Road, south Edinburgh, Scotland
19 Aug 2015
new photos:
An HQ for a major UK life assurance company in keeping with the unique urban fabric of Edinburgh.
The competition winning design concept evolved from a process of matching the brief with the opportunities presented by the site.
Occupying a large quarter of a city block BDP’s strategy divided the plan into separate parts (for separate letting) and arranged these around an atrium raised a level above the street.
Energy efficient shallow-plan offices enclose private and public spaces including the large atrium, a public walkway through the scheme and a central circus which covers underground public parking for 200 cars.
source: http://www.bdp.com/en/projects/p-z/Scottish-Widows-Headquarters/
photos © Adrian Welch
Scottish Widows – Dalkeith Road
photo © Adrian Welch
Date: 1976
Architects: Sir Basil Spence, Glover & Ferguson
Landscape: Sylvia Crowe
15 Dalkeith Road
Hexagonal bronze-tinted glassy forms with entrance bridge across shallow pool.
Scottish Widows southern elevations:
image © Adrian Welch
Adjacent buildings incl. Commonwealth Pool
photograph © Adrian Welch
Scottish Widows : HQ, Port Hamilton
picture © Adrian Welch
Scottish Widows Edinburgh : HQ Expansion
Scottish Parliament
picture © Keith Hunter
Scottish National Portrait Gallery
photograph © Adrian Welch
Quartermile Edinburgh
picture © Adrian Welch
Edinburgh Conference Centre
photo © Adrian Welch
Scottish Widows context : Pollock Halls
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