Edinburgh World Heritage Site, EWHT

Damascus architecture

Edinburgh World Heritage News – Support For Syrian Architecture Restoration

Responding to a call from Prof Maamoun Adbulkarim, Director-General of Antiquities and Museums, Arab Republic of Syria, Edinburgh World Heritage has offered to provide support towards the restoration of several of Syria’s World Heritage sites, including the ancient cities of Aleppo, Damascus, and Bosra.

Market Street Hotel Edinburgh

Market Street Hotel Edinburgh

Developer EDI Group and Carlton Hotel Collection are creating a 98-room design boutique hotel on Market Street on derelict land between Craig’s Close and the City Arts Centre, empty for more than 50 years.

St Andrew’s House Edinburgh Restoration

St Andrew's House Edinburgh building restoration

St Andrew’s House Restoration news: Edinburgh building services specialist MPACT Group Ltd enhances its reputation for undertaking challenging and sensitive projects with ongoing restoration in heart of capital.

Scottish Widows Building, Edinburgh

Scottish Widows Building Edinburgh

New images of Scottish Widows Building, Edinburgh – Dalkeith Road dating from 1976 by architects Sir Basil Spence, Glover & Ferguson with landscape by Sylvia Crowe: hexagonal bronze-tinted glassy forms with entrance bridge across shallow pool.

Gayfield Square Residential Development: LBA

Gayfield Square apartment building

LBA, a leading Edinburgh-based firm of architects, secure Planning approval for the eleven-apartment luxury residential development in the city centre. They are appointed to take the project forward with housing developers Mactaggart and Mickel, who purchased the site with planning approval.

Stead’s Place Leith Walk Property: Drum

Stead’s Place Leith Walk Building Edinburgh, Drum Property Group

Major planning submission by Drum Property Group for £50m Stead’s Place transformation of significant section of Leith Walk, Edinburgh into a new residential, student and visitor quarter: 2.9-acre mixed-used scheme with affordable housing, hotel, restaurant, café & retail.

Harmeny School Balerno, West Lothian

Harmeny School Balerno, West Lothian

Harmeny School intends to appoint an architect-led multidisciplinary design team for their proposed new Learning Hub to be located within the school’s 35-acre estate in the village of Balerno, Edinburgh.

Haddington Building: Architecture Photos

The Maltings Haddington house extension

Haddington building news – beautiful 4-bed extended house at goes on the market, with architect-designed kitchen & dining room extension plus master bedroom balcony with views up the river ; McCarthy & Stone retirement apartments near completion at Mill Wynd. The Hailes is a new development of 43 one and two bedroom apartments and 6 two-bed cottages.