omniedinburgh vue cinema Greenside Place, Phone, Leith St location, Website, Scotland

Omni Edinburgh Vue Cinema

Omni + Calton Square, Leith Street, Edinburgh

post updated 21 February 2025

Warner Village Edinburgh: Multiplex Cinema – Omni Centre

Films/Times – VUE Cinema: 08712 240240

Location: Omni Edinburgh (Warner Village Cinema), Greenside Place, New Town

picture © Adrian Welch

Calton Square offices for Pillar Properties + Parlison Properties

Vue Cinema Edinburgh

Omni Edinburgh Building Information

Edinburgh’s most high profile cinema complex has just opened following a gala premiere of ‘Harry Potter II’. This represents a key component in Allan Murray Architects’ ambitious design for this £73m mixed-use development at Greenside Place in Edinburgh’s city centre.

The leisure building, called ‘Omni’, includes a five-star hotel, a health + fitness club, a variety of bars and restaurants as well as a Warner Village 12 screen multiplex cinema. The hotel wraps round an expansive rooftop garden and gives the building a unique ‘fifth’ elevation when viewed from the elevated position of Calton Hill.

Omni Centre & Calton Square buildings:

photo © Adrian Welch

Omni Edinburgh Vue Cinema Buildings

Allan Murray Architects’ detailed urban analysis of the site generated two distinct buildings – Omni Centre & Calton Square – and the practice was retained as master planner for the whole site as well as project architect for ‘Calton Square’, the 190,000 sq ft flagship office development for Pillar Properties plc and Parlison Properties Limited. The two buildings are separated by a new square which breaks down the scale of the overall development and affords an uninterrupted view up to the monuments on Calton Hill.

Omni Centre & Calton Square buildings:

photograph © Adrian Welch

The design responds to the location’s unique urban character and relates to the massing of the surrounding buildings, the superb views out from the site and the client’s desire to create a ‘landmark’ building. The structural grid for the buildings spring from the existing car park structure and a transfer slab was constructed to increase flexibility.

Construction work started in November 2000 and the mass of the new buildings echo the scale of the former tenements on Leith Street (demolished in the 1960’s).

image © Adrian Welch