St James Quarter, Edinburgh
Shopping centre by Allan Murray Architects with BDP, 2016-21; hotel by renowned practice Jestico + Whiles Architects 2016-2022 (both proposed completions). Includes a 12 storey, 214 room hotel as part of a complex involving shopping centre and other facilities. Steel ribbon with bands of glass, some containing viewing platforms.
The design has been likened to spirals of paper, a reference to the many printing presses which occupied surrounding areas. A landmark building for the city.
Contrast between Robert Adam’s Register House and Archibald Elliot’s Waterloo Place, the latter pre-dating the new scheme by exactly 200 years (1818-19).
St James Quarter, Edinburgh
Shopping centre by Allan Murray Architects with BDP, 2016-21; hotel by renowned practice Jestico + Whiles Architects 2016-2022 (both proposed completions). Includes a 12 storey, 214 room hotel as part of a complex involving shopping centre and other facilities. Steel ribbon with bands of glass, some containing viewing platforms.
The design has been likened to spirals of paper, a reference to the many printing presses which occupied surrounding areas. A landmark building for the city.
Contrast between Robert Adam’s Register House and Archibald Elliot’s Waterloo Place, the latter pre-dating the new scheme by exactly 200 years (1818-19).