omniedinburgh vue cinema Greenside Place, Phone, Leith St location, Website, Scotland
Omni Edinburgh Vue Cinema
Omni + Calton Square, Leith Street, Edinburgh
Warner Village Edinburgh: Multiplex Cinema – Omni Centre
Films/Times – VUE Cinema: 08712 240240
Calton Square – offices for Pillar Properties + Parlison Properties
Location: Omni Edinburgh (Warner Village Cinema), Greenside Place, New Town
picture © Adrian Welch
Vue Cinema Edinburgh
Omni Edinburgh Building Information
Edinburgh’s most high profile cinema complex has just opened following a gala premiere of ‘Harry Potter II’. This represents a key component in Allan Murray Architects’ ambitious design for this £73m mixed-use development at Greenside Place in Edinburgh’s city centre.
The leisure building, called ‘Omni’, includes a five-star hotel, a health + fitness club, a variety of bars and restaurants as well as a Warner Village 12 screen multiplex cinema. The hotel wraps round an expansive rooftop garden and gives the building a unique ‘fifth’ elevation when viewed from the elevated position of Calton Hill.
Omni Centre & Calton Square buildings:
photo © Adrian Welch
Omni Edinburgh Vue Cinema Buildings
Allan Murray Architects’ detailed urban analysis of the site generated two distinct buildings – Omni Centre & Calton Square – and the practice was retained as master planner for the whole site as well as project architect for ‘Calton Square’, the 190,000 sq ft flagship office development for Pillar Properties plc and Parlison Properties Limited. The two buildings are separated by a new square which breaks down the scale of the overall development and affords an uninterrupted view up to the monuments on Calton Hill.
Omni Centre & Calton Square buildings:
photograph © Adrian Welch
The design responds to the location’s unique urban character and relates to the massing of the surrounding buildings, the superb views out from the site and the client’s desire to create a ‘landmark’ building. The structural grid for the buildings spring from the existing car park structure and a transfer slab was constructed to increase flexibility.
Construction work started in November 2000 and the mass of the new buildings echo the scale of the former tenements on Leith Street (demolished in the 1960’s).
image © Adrian Welch
Omni Centre / Calton Square Building Information received 18 November 2002 from Allan Murray Architects (AMA)
Since the completion of Warner Village Edinburgh the eastern section was developed as TheGlasshouse Hotel with the Mood Bar (Club) in between.
Omni Centre Edinburgh : main page on the Greenside Place property development
picture from architect studio
Edinburgh Buildings
Edinburgh Property Designs – recent architectural selection below:
Greenside Edinburgh Development
image courtesy of Chris Stewart Group (CSG)
Greenside Edinburgh Blenheim Place Development
Buildings close to the Omni Centre
Edinburgh Cinemas
Ster Century, Ocean Terminal
image © Jason Baxter
Dominion
Odeon Wester Hailes
VUE, Omni Edinburgh, Greenside Place
Adjacent Structure:
Leith Street Bridge by Broadway Malayan
Scottish Capital Building Designs
Contemporary Scottish Capital Property Designs – recent architectural selection below:
West Town Edinburgh 20-minute neighbourhood
image courtesy of West Town Edinburgh Ltd
West Town Edinburgh 20-minute neighbourhood
1 Broughton Market short term let apartments
image courtesy of architects practice
1 Broughton Market short term let apartments
Comments / photos for the omniedinburgh cinema + restaurants building at Calton Square / Leith Street page welcome