Collective on Calton Hill
Category
ARCHITECTURE: Leisure/Culture Building or Project
Company
Collective Architecture
City of Edinburgh Council
Client
Collective
Summary
Collective, a freshly restored and redeveloped part or Edinburgh's World Heritage Site. The project included an extensive refurbishment of the Category A Listed City Observatory, Transit House, Playfair Monument & Boundary Walls. Including a new restaurant, which cantilevers over the north east corner of the boundary wall, a new gallery which is excavated into the basalt mound to the north of the Observatory and a new welcome kiosk at the East Gate.
Design Team;
Main Contractor: ESH Construction
QS / Project Manager: Faithful and Gould
M&E: Cundall
Landscape Architect: Harrison Stevens
Original Architect: Malcolm Fraser Architects (completed RIBA Stage 3)