challenging
re-development opportunity in old town brewery area
serviced plots on partially cleared
masterplanned site
Challenge
option
on sites taken by Whiteburn prior to parliament announcement
consent gained for mixed use development
retaining old brewery shell
bold new façade created on
Holyrood road
fermentation of government, media
and cultural occupiers
Outcome
BCO
Award winner 2003: best commercial workplace Scotland and UK
September 2007: sold to Cordea Savills
fund managers on behalf of the Charities Property Fund
architects:
Allan Murray Architects
engineers:
Arup Scotland
quantity surveyor:
CBA
main contractor:
Melville Dundas
letting agent:
McGregors
managing agent: CB Richard Ellis
lawyers:
Davidson Chalmers
funders:
Royal Bank of Scot, Clydesdale Bank
Working:
BBC Scotland, British
Council Scotland, European Parliament, Scottish Enterprise,
Commission for Racial Equality, General Medical Council,
Bunnyfoot
Unwinding:
The
Tun Bar & Kitchen, Mai Thai
"The Tun will not only impact positively on
the Old Town landscape, but it will also stand as
a symbol of the new political landscape here in Scotland" Sir David
Steel, Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament
