Category: MASTER PLANNING/LANDSCAPING: Public Realm/Landscaping

The innovative regeneration of DundasHill takes a long term, sustainable approach to the future transformation of the former Diagio distillery site through the commissioning and implementation of a green and blue landscape infrastructure framework. The framework will shape the future development of up to 620 new homes, embedding the creation of distinctive places at the heart of a new residential neighbourhood.  The project is worthy of an award for the ambitious and confident decision taken by the client towards investing […]

At Strawberry Field in Liverpool was a Victorian House, operated by The Salvation Army since 1936 as a home for some of Liverpool’s most vulnerable children. It was in these grounds which a young John Lennon played as a child, eventually immortalising the place in the song ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’. Julia Baird, Lennon’s sister said, “as children we all have somewhere that’s a bit ours, a bit special…it seems that this was John’s special place’. For this reason hundreds of thousands […]

King’s Stables Road and its environs sit on the necklace of spaces that surround Edinburgh Castle and form gateways to the Castle Rock, Princes Street Gardens and the streets and squares of Old and New Town; yet creeping Twentieth Century industrialisation left it partially derelict, inaccessible and blocking local permeability. The necklace was broken. Thus, we saw the design challenge as not just to fix the site itself but to do it in such a way that the wider context […]

Situated within a World Heritage Site, Calton Hill encompasses the redevelopment of existing buildings – The City Dome, The City Observatory and Transit House as well as a new Contemporary Art Gallery and restaurant facility within the walled garden of the 1818 Playfair-designed City Observatory. Working with joint clients, Collective Gallery and the City of Edinburgh Council, HarrisonStevens developed a concept design story around a perambulation route. Past and present spread across the site, like fragments of time, interpreted as […]