Edinburgh Business School Building Photos, Adam Ferguson renewal by LDN Architects
Edinburgh University Business School : Architecture
Edinburgh University Business School Development refurbishment design by LDN Architects, Scotland, UK.
post updated 22 February 2025
Original Architect: Robert Matthew of Robert Matthew Johnson Marshall (since renamed as RMJM)
Date built: 1964
Renewal Design: LDN Architects
Date of redevelopment: 2011
photo : Paul Zanre
1 June 2011
Business School at the University of Edinburgh
photo : Paul Zanre
LDN’s project for the Business School at the University of Edinburgh illustrates our particular strength in revitalising significant buildings that have lost their usefulness. The Adam Ferguson Building, designed by Robert Matthew in 1964, had become jaded, confusing to use and was suffering severe overheating problems.
Its B listed status made it important for LDN to find ways to temper the internal environment and make the building legible to its users without undermining its significance or its coherence as part of a larger A listed group of 1960s university buildings around George Square.
photo : Paul Zanre
The project, which is now complete, creates facilities in a new storey of accommodation on top of the existing building. The renewal work also formed a central atrium which naturally ventilates open plan offices arranged around a new circulation core.
A new pavilion on Buccleuch Place forms the school’s front door, presents a contemporary face for the Business School and allows the creation of generous, welcoming, two-storey high lecture and concourse space, typical of modern education buildings, but previously lacking in the Adam Ferguson Building. Teaching in the new School started in the Autumn semester 2010.
photo : Paul Zanre
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Robert Matthew Johnson Marshall
RMJM was founded by Stirrat Johnson-Marshall and Robert Matthew in 1956. The partnership began following Robert Matthew’s decision to hire Johnson-Marshall to manage the new London office of his architecture practice, which had been set up to oversee the construction of New Zealand House in west London.
This British architecture firm was heavily involved with academic campus projects in Scotland in the early 1960s. The most notable Scottish building commissions were for the University of Edinburgh, the new University of Strathclyde in 1964 and the University of Stirling.
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Edinburgh buildings by LDN Architects – Selection
Contemporary Edinburgh Building Designs by LDN Architects – key architectural selection:
Usher Hall – redevelopment/extension
photo : The City of Edinburgh Council
Usher Hall
Festival Theatre
image from LDN
Festival Theatre
St Marys Catholic Cathedral redevelopment
image : Keith Hunter
St Marys Catholic Cathedral
Another Edinburgh religious building project by LDN Architects:
Marchmont St.Giles Church extension, south Edinburgh
photo © Keith Hunter
Marchmont St.Giles Church
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