North Holyrood Masterplan, Edinburgh, Photos, Building, Image, Architect, Project
Holyrood Masterplan, Edinburgh : Architecture
Old Town Redevelopment, Scotland by John Hope, Architect
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West Holyrood Masterplan
Edinburgh City Council planners recommending approval Mar 2007
Holyrood Masterplan
North Holyrood – News Update
building photo © Adrian Welch
Last building on site at North Holyrood, adj. The Tun, Frank Spratt site behind The Clocktower: Offices by 3D Architects
Bakehouse Close, Holyrood
building photo © Adrian Welch
Location: off Canongate – Royal Mile Edinburgh
The area to the south of the Canongate was masterplanned by Edinburgh-based architect John Hope who selected mainly young design-led practices to participate in its re-development.
All the contemporary buildings on this page emerged from this masterplan. The RFAC (5) was the first completed. Most of these buildings are also listed in the Old Town Tour but gathered here for people interested in how they relate to the masterplan. The North Holyrood Masterplan has few detractors and is widely viewed in Edinburgh as a successful model for marrying the new to the old.
Royal Fine Arts Commission, Bakehouse Close
Richard Murphy Architects
photo © Adrian Welch
Since 2005 Architecture + Design Scotland
The famous Old Town ‘herringbone pattern’ drawing (right), shows the skeletal structure of the High Street. It’s backbone follows the glacial crag-and-tail ridge line from the volcanic plug of the Castle rock down to the Palace of Holyroodhouse. There are hundreds of vennels or closes running off it; in the past there were more but buildings such as the Crowne Plaza have destroyed many. In the last two decades some have been restored.
drawing from Charles McKean
Canongate Housing, 112 Canongate
Richard Murphy Architects
photo © Adrian Welch
Private Housing & ground-floor shop. Quirky low-budget housing with a contemporary twist
Scottish Poetry Library, Crichton’s Close
Malcolm Fraser Architects
photo © Keith Hunter
Sensitive steel-framed addition to another close off the Royal Mile using oak cladding and blue terracotta tiles
Crichton’s Close Housing
Arcade Architects
photo © Adrian Welch
rhetorical: Crichton House, offices
Ungless & Latimer
photo © Adrian Welch
Dynamic Earth, Holyrood Road
Michael Hopkins & Partners
photo © Adrian Welch
Our Dynamic Earth : trademark Hopkins parachuted into town
Scotsman Newspaper
CDA Architects
photo © Adrian Welch
Holyrood Park House
CDA Architects
picture from the architect
The Park Edinburgh: housing
Campbell & Arnott Architects
photo © Adrian Welch
Macdonald Hotel Edinburgh
Hendry & Legge Architects
photo © Adrian Welch
The Tun, Holyrood Rd
Allan Murray Architects
picture from the architect
The Tun Edinburgh
The Clocktower refurbishment, Holyrood Rd
Allan Murray Architects
picture from architect
Old Town Housing by E & F McLachlan for OTHA, Holyrood
E & F McLachlan
image © Steffen Schefer
Morgan Court Housing, Holyrood
Ungless & Latimer
photo © Adrian Welch
Van Heyningnen & Haward Housing
Van Heyningnen & Haward
photo © Adrian Welch
located just to the north of Morgan Court and south across the close from the RFAC
Buildings adjacent to the North Holyrood Masterplan:
Scottish Parliament
Palace of Holyroodhouse
West Holyrood Masterplan: John Hope, Architect
Masterplan : shops, offices, flats, new academic buildings, underground parking, gardens
Campus owners: Edinburgh University
Location: between Royal Mile & Holyrood Road
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Buildings / photos for the North Holyrood Masterplan Architecture pages welcome
North Holyrood – Building : page