Intelligent Finance, Halifax Bank Scotland offices building photo, Parr Partnership F2 architect
Halifax Scottish HQ, Edinburgh
Modern IF Headquarters, Edinburgh Park design by Parr Partnership architects in Scotland, UK.
post updated 22 February 2025
IF / Halifax HQ
Date built: 1999-2000
Design: Parr Partnership, architects
Edinburgh Park Offices image from Parr Partnership
New headquarters for Intelligent Finance
Halifax Offices Edinburgh
“Fit-out was completed in May 2000 for Halifax’s new 72,000 sq ft internet bank on site F2, Edinburgh Park. The building is centred around a full-height glazed atrium which channels daylight into the heart of the building and provides the main vertical circulation to four levels of accommodation.
Edinburgh Park buildings image from Parr Partnership
The headquarters building is crisply detailed using high quality materials whilst the silver and blue cassette cladding creates a dramatic visual impact from the nearby Edinburgh city bypass. Parking is a mixture of surface and decked parking form while sunken gardens create a shared space between F2 and it’s sister building F1″.
Parr Partnership – Building PR 2001
Intelligent Finance Building: approx. build cost £7m
Also by the Parr Partnership at Edinburgh Park:
F1 Building – Xansa HQ
Parr Architects BAA Framework Agreement
Another Halifax Banking Building in Edinburgh:
HBoS on The Mound
Key Scottish building by Parr Partnership:
General Accident HQ, Pitheavlis, Perth
1982-3
Intelligent Finance is a division of Halifax plc
Edinburgh Park Architecture
aerial image © webbaviation
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HBOS
HBOS was formed by the 2001 merger of Halifax plc and the Bank of Scotland. The formation of HBOS created a fifth force in British banking as it formed a company of comparable size and stature to the established Big Four UK retail banks.
It was also the UK’s largest mortgage lender. The HBOS Group Reorganisation Act 2006 saw the transfer of Halifax plc and Capital Bank plc to the Bank of Scotland, which had by then become a registered public limited company, Bank of Scotland plc.
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Scottish Capital Building Designs
Contemporary Scottish Capital Property Designs – key commercial properties designs selection below:
Edinburgh Park Office Buildings – Selection
Aegon Scotland
image courtesy of architects practice
Alexander Graham Bell House, Edinburgh
photograph © Keith Hunter
Diageo Scotland
picture © Keith Hunter
Oracle Edinburgh
picture © Keith Hunter
John Menzies Building
image courtesy of architects practice
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