George Square, Edinburgh, Photos, Architecture, Architect, Picture, Library
George Square Edinburgh
University of Edinburgh Buildings, Scotland
28 May 2012
50 George Square
50 George Square Building
Balfour Beatty, the international infrastructure group, announces today that it has been awarded its 22nd project for the University of Edinburgh for the renovation of the university’s 1960’s William Robertson building at 50 George Square. 50 George Square is a Grade B listed building located close to the heart of the city of Edinburgh.
image from Balfour Beatty
The £12.1m four storey refurbishment project includes the construction of a new storey at rooftop level to form a project room above the existing lecture theatre for the School of Literatures, Languages and Culture. Award winning Page Park are the architects for the refurbishment works.
The building will be fully insulated with energy efficient materials and new hard and soft landscaping around the building will be created.
This contract award is testament to the strength of the relationship Balfour Beatty has with the University of Edinburgh and adds to the growing portfolio of Scottish refurbishment schemes that Balfour Beatty has established in recent months.
The project is due for completion in Spring 2014.
University of Edinburgh George Square
Edinburgh University Library by Sir Basil Spence + Glover & Ferguson
Hume Tower by Robert Matthew, Architect – Johnson-Marshall & Partners
Appleton Tower by Alan Reiach, Eric Hall & Partners
McEwan Hall by Sir Rowand Anderson, Architect
George Square – Edinburgh University buildings: photo © Adrian Welch 2006
Edinburgh University Library, George Square
1965-67
Sir Basil Spence + Glover & Ferguson
photograph © Adrian Welch
University of Edinburgh Main Library
Edinburgh University Library principal architect – Basil Spence
George Square – Edinburgh University buildings: photo © Adrian Welch 2006
Just to the North is Robert Matthew’s Hume Tower:
Hume Tower building: image © Adrian Welch
Hume Tower
English Literature Department + Department of Classics
The University of Edinburgh, David Hume Tower,
George Square
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Edinburgh University Student Centre: image © Adrian Welch
Appleton Tower – Demolition
Appleton Tower building: photos © Adrian Welch 2006
Channel 4 show Demolition – supported by George Fergusion of the RIBA and fronted by Kevin McCloud – asked for nominations to demolish ‘ugly buildings’ across the UK: The Cockburn Association named the Appleton Tower alongside the New Town St James Centre, the Jury’s Inn Hotel on Jeffrey Street, and Clifton Terrace, at Haymarket, as one of the Capital’s ugliest buildings:
Edinburgh University Science Facility: image © Adrian Welch
The George Square building [on Crichton Street] was constructed during a redevelopment of the area by Edinburgh University in the early 1960s. Designed in 1963 by respected post-war Edinburgh architects Alan Reiach, Eric Hall & Partners (latterly Reiach and Hall Architects who are now involved with Bennetts Associates on the new Potterow building – Informatics school, see below link) the Science Facility includes labs and lecture theatres.
The Appleton Tower provides research, teaching and learning facilities; the Edinburgh University School of Informatics is now housed in the tower following the Old Town Fire, with the neuroscience department.
Hume Tower building: image © Adrian Welch
Potterrow building : Edinburgh Mosque
Back towards the centre, note the McEwan Hall, University of Edinburgh, Teviot Place, Robert Rowand Anderson.
Links related to Edinburgh George Square
Edinburgh Informatics – Bennetts Associates with Reiach and Hall Architects
Edinburgh University Informatics: image from Bennetts Associates
Edinburgh University Old College – Robert Adam Architect (link further up page)
Edinburgh University Old College: image © Adrian Welch
Kings Buildings Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions – Hurd Rolland
Building image from Hurd Rolland Architects
Alexander Graham Bell Building – Hurd Rolland
Building image from Hurd Rolland Architects
William Rankine Building – Hurd Rolland
William Rankine Building: images by Yahya Islami, from Hurd Rolland Architects
Kings Buildings chimney & associated works – Michael Laird Partnership
building image by Henk Snoek from Michael Laird Architects
Potterrow Informatics – Photos
Edinburgh University Old College
Comments / photos for the University of Edinburgh Architecture page welcome