Unite Edinburgh Student Accommodation, Lady Lawson Street Building Images, Architect Project
Unite Student Housing : Edinburgh Accommodation
Portsborough Court: Lady Lawson St Flats, Edinburgh, Scotland, design by Acanthus Architects Douglas Forrest
post updated 2 January 2022
Unite images © Adrian Welch, Sep 2006 with lumix camera
Unite Student Housing Edinburgh
Portsborough Court – UNITE
Design: Acanthus Architects Douglas Forrest
Accommodation: 229 rooms
Formally opened: 8 September 2006
Height: nine-storeys
Area: approx. 70,000 sqft
Construction Cost: £7m approximate
photo © Douglas Forrest Architects
The Lady Lawson St project is nine storeys high and situated immediately to the north of Novotel Edinburgh – now on site, Oct 2005.
By Acanthus architects Douglas Forrest, based in Huntly, Aberdeenshire, the building contains accommodation for 231 students in predominantly 5 bedroom flats but with a limited number of 3 and 4 bedroom flats.
Proposed views south up Lady Lawson St:
all Unite images © Douglas Forrest Architects
The proposed view looking north up Lady Lawson St:
Lady Lawson Street flats image © Douglas Forrest Architects
Just to the north of the Unite Student Housing is Westport by Reiach and Hall Architects. Named ‘Evolution House’ by the developers it was completed in 2003 where Lady Lawson Street meets West Port:
property image © Adrian Welch
Unite Student Housing
Just to the north of the Unite Student Housing is Westport House, nine-storey offices comprising of 65,000 sq ft net, constructed in 1971.
The building is formed primarily from repetitive pre-cast concrete cladding panels. Bulky ribbed concrete cores are expressed on the elevations and protrude above the general roofline. West Port is one of the historic entry routes to the old town of Edinburgh.
Edinburgh College of Art (aka ECA) is located east of the Portsborough Court housing on Lady Lawson Street:
image © Adrian Welch
Westport House is located north of the Portsborough Court flats at Lady Lawson St:
picture from the architect
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