Category: ARCHITECTURE: Residential – Multi Unit

Simon Square is an essay in a new timber, Urban Vernacular: a traditional Scottish tenement built in a contemporary way, out of healthy, vapour-open, carbon-locking solid structural timber and with the form embracing light, view and openness. This is the first commercial developer-led heavy timber residential development in Scotland, with new technology evolved to allow the exposure of the timber internally while exceeding Scotland’s high acoustic requirements. Located on a tight little site, in a historic square in Edinburgh’s Southside, […]

The Linen Quarter at Pilmuir Works is a new residential community created within the restored Category A-listed former Damask linen factory, previously on the Historic Environment Scotland’s Buildings at Risk Register. Pilmuir Works is one of the last remaining examples of the extensive Linen and textile industry that dominated the city during the 19th Century. The design for the site included the complex restoration and re-imagining of important features of the Grade A Listed site: the striking 28-bay, 3 storey […]

22 Lade Braes is a contemporary interpretation of St Andrews’ historic vernacular paying homage to the grandeur of the local Victorian Mercantile buildings and its unique setting. The building sits within a geometrically complex site adjacent to the line of the medieval town wall on a main arterial route into the town. Each façade masterfully addresses differing site contexts whilst combining as a cohesive whole within its urban setting. The sectional design makes good use of the 6 metre north-south […]

The development sensitively converted three existing Category B buildings, Torwood House, the Stable Block and the Gatehouse Lodge; faithfully retaining and restoring original features, whilst providing a new lease of life in remodelling the layouts to suit the requirements of modern family living. In conjunction with this, two new build blocks were delivered as part of the scheme which adopt a palette of materials lending from the existing buildings whilst delivering a distinctly contemporary architectural language to narrate the evolution […]