Category: ARCHITECTURE: Commercial/Office/Hotel Building or Project

Set behind a striking façade of Scottish stone at the point where Edinburgh’s historic Old Town meets the New Town, the hotel emerges as a cultural gateway to both the city’s storied past and its pulse-quickening present. The visual concept of the 98-room hotel pays homage to the capital’s character and historic narrative, while simultaneously exploring Scottish cosmopolitanism. The project was confined to a restricted site that had lain derelict and undeveloped for over 50 years. Uncertainty over the viability […]

The new home of the New Gorbals Housing Association is a bespoke office and civic piazza forming the centrepiece of the Crown Street redevelopment in Glasgow. Our task was to design a building that could be easily adapted to provide a variety of workplace functions, future proof expansion, better connect the association with the wider Gorbals community with improved facilities for tenants and cultivate the social well-being and comfort of staff. The building maintains a civic presence externally, with an […]

Isle of Arran Distillers commissioned Denham Benn to design a new distillery on Arran to produce a single malt peated whisky to complement their existing distillery and visitor centre at Lochranza. The development comprises a distillery, visitor centre and bonded warehousing located on the South of the Island at Lagg, against a stunning atmospheric backdrop of Ailsa Craig and the Kintyre Peninsula. The contemporary design aims to harness the setting of the site and silhouette of Glen Rosa. A palette […]

King’s Stables Road is the comprehensive redevelopment of the former Council Cleaning and Street Lighting Depo and an adjacent nightclub has wholly redefined a forgotten corner into a vibrant and culturally significant quarter of Scotland’s capital. Key to achieving social and economic value was the delivery of a mix of uses that combined in synthesis to transform a location previously chosen as a backdrop to cult films such as Trainspotting into a thriving neighbourhood better suited to its setting within […]

Hoskins Architects was appointed by the Chris Stewart Group to develop proposals for the comprehensive redevelopment of a prominent but under-utilised urban site, to bring new life to a complex of redundant buildings and the lanes surrounding them in the heart of Edinburgh’s New Town World Heritage Site and Conservation Area. Incorporating the redevelopment of four existing buildings that front onto South St Andrew Street and West Register Street, the project has a significant presence on the South East corner […]

The scheme concerns the proposed remodelling and re-use of a series of adjoining properties on St Andrew Square & St David St, to form a 72 bed boutique hotel. The site sits within the heart of Edinburgh New Town, with these town houses having most recently been utilised as offices. As prime location for a boutique hotel, the project is also within the New Town Conservation Area and the Edinburgh World Heritage Site. The Proposal involves the sensitive conversion of […]