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St Andrew Square Building Solar Pavilion Designed by Karen Forbes for Edinburgh Art Festival 4 Aug - 4 Sep 2011 Admission free Karen Forbes Karen Forbes Solar Pavilion (visualization), 2011 Courtesy the artist and Glo Edinburgh Art Festival is delighted to announce further details of the first artist-designed Festival Pavilion. Situated in St. Andrew Square Gardens, Solar Pavilion is a 2.8 metre high, 14 metre long glass structure formed from 9 segments. Designed by Karen Forbes with leading structural engineers Buro Happold and RMJM architectural practice, the Pavilion is a contemporary expression of the city's long fascination with optics and optical devices for viewing. The pavilion will open to the public on 4 August 2011 and will host a series of free events throughout the festival in partnership with the city's museums and galleries. Karen Forbes Solar Pavilion (visualization), 2011 Courtesy the artist and Glo At the intersection of art and architecture, and at the heart of the city where Sir David Brewster invented the Kaleidoscope and dedicated a life to exploring the physics of light, Forbes' glass chamber will use the latest technology in glass facade engineering to create a space which will celebrate the play of light and shadow. Forbes' innovative structure will invite visitors to both enjoy a point of contemplation and reflection in the centre of the festival city and provide an optical viewing point from which to re-see the city. 12 + 13 Jul St Andrew Square - New Kiosk The Pavilion was designed by Gillespies (Landscape Architectural Company, based in Glasgow) as part of the redevelopment of the Square. photos © lee boyd may 2008 The tenancy of the pavilion was an open competition to coffee retailers and Edinburgh registered company, Coffee Republic, won with a design concept by lee boyd. aerial image © webbaviation 'String of Pearls' project - View It's easy to criticise such projects as the opening up of this formerly private square, but this initiative is both bold and well executed. Opening on 5th of April the stone landscaping was already being used for seating, with the cafe pavilion providing a focus and gentle bustle. The paths follow natural desire lines and the design is neat and unpretentious. Many tours we've shown round the New Town over the years have been amazed that St Andrew Square, Charlotte Square, Queen Street Gardens, Moray Place, etc. are all reserved for lucky locals. This is not how a city should work. St Andrew Square now represents a bold and successful attempt to repopulate Scotland's capital city, allow permeability and reconnect the people with what should have always been public space. photos © adrian welch feb 2008 with lumix camera The next space to be given back to pedestrians is the Grassmarket, another positive initiative. Thereafter the logical next step is to demand Charlotte Square is given back to the city. In the meantime the Council should remove the locked gates at the bridge behind the Ross Bandstand: this daft situation destroys permeability right in the heart of the city - you have to go to either end of the Gardens just to go from Old to New Town or vice versa. Background to St Andrew Square Revitalisation Underway in St Andrew Square since Jul 2007: opening up the square to the public & connecting burgeoning St James / Multrees Walk areas with city centre: clearing of foliage, new paths and some micro architecture. String of Pearls Edinburgh Development Framework by City of Edinburgh Council + Broadway Malyan 42 St Andrew Square former RBS HQ prior to completion of Gogarburn photo © adrian welch Feb 2008 Due to be developed, possibly as a hotel Caledonian Insurance Company building building: photo © adrian welch sep 2006 St Andrew Square - Scottish Provident building building: photo © adrian welch sep 2006 St Andrew Square buildings : gareth hoskins architects + CDA St Andrew Square - Melville Monument statue / column photo © Adrian Welch Sep 2006 St Andrew Square Department Store - Harvey Nichols picture from Store PR St Andrew Square offices picture from the architect Standard Life building 35 St Andrew Square photo © adrian welch 230207 One of the oldest buildings in the New Town, being refurbished in 2006 RBS St Andrew Square Dundas Mansion, western focus to Edinburgh New Town's long axis St Andrew Square Retail / Commercial property - Basil Spence, architect building: photo © adrian welch sep 2006 St Andrew Square bank : Bank of Scotland HQ, east side of St Andrew's Square building: photo © adrian welch 2005 Multrees Walk off St Andrew Square to east adj. Harvey Nichols Aerial view: picture from the architect Central to St Andrew Square is the Melville Monument atop which is the stone statue of Henry Dundas, Viscount Melville Prudential Assurance building - 14 South st Andrew St, by Alfred Waterhouse 1895 photo © adrian welch 230207 Looking east down George Street to St Andrew Square: building: photo © adrian welch 2006 St Andrew Square context - Scottish Portrait Gallery building: photo © adrian welch sep 2006 St Andrew Square - office building - photographed from north (rear) side: building: photo © adrian welch 2006 Former Scottish Equitable offices, St Andrew Square: photograph © adrian welch nov2007

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