Work started on Exchange Place Oct 2007
photos © Adrian Welch nov 2007 with lumix camera
Exchange Place : Building PR from cre8architecture 2007
Work has started on cre8architecture’s £45M Exchange Place office development in Edinburgh. The new 280,000sqft proposals for Scottish Widows Investment Partnership are one of the final components of the original Central Business District. Secured in design competition the development marks the first major commission for the new Edinburgh based practice.
The development of three 5 and 6 storey office buildings around a new public piazza links to the Millennium Way between Edinburgh Quay and the city centre. The proposals also see the retention and relocation of the Grade B listed entrance arches to the former Meat Market.
The project is being delivered as part of a joint venture with London based practice RHWL, with a completion date for all three offices of Spring 2009.
Scottish Widows - Development Approved
Exchange Place
Buildings demolished - Grade B listed arch (see photo below. left) retained & relocated on site - with site works underway Jul 2007
Office development
2007-09
Cre8architecture with RHWL
£45m
5-6 storey buildings
Previously:
Revised plans by jm architects for Fat Sams site, land to rear Of Port Hamilton & The Chalmers Building, Fountainbridge Edinburgh: Erection of an office development Application Granted for Scottish Widows PLc.
Two new public routes run perpendicular off Semple Street and Fountainbridge to join the circular landscape feature to the southwest of the BDP Architects' building. 100107
image from BDP Architects
Exchange Place : RHWL
Scottish Widows - Expansion
Proposed new buildings by Scottish Widows - as reported earlier this year - incl. cafe, restaurant, courtyard and retained former meat market entry (latterly Fat Sams) and Semple St builidngs, expected to receive permission 12 Oct 2005 but jm architects' project for Scottish Widows to the south of the building unerstood to be still under discussion Oct 2005.
Scottish Widows - redevelopment context, photographs from Jan 2006:
images © Adrian Welch
The Scottish Widows Building - refreshed southern elevation in Jan 2006:
image © Adrian Welch
Adjacent buildings incl. Edinburgh Conference Centre and the City Travel Inn
Scottish Architecture
Scottish Widows HQ, Port Hamilton, 69 Morrison St, Edinburgh 1998
image from BDP Architects
BDP Architects: Edinburgh buildings
Edinburgh Council HQ
Scottish Widows HQ
Craiglockhart Campus, Napier University
EICC Additional Spaces Facility - Project
Scottish Housing
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