Development Edinburgh

[Graham]

Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop progress new Creative Laboratories
http://www.urbanrealm.com/news/4358/...oratories.html
August 21 2013
----------------------------------
Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop progress new Creative Laboratories Maxi Construction have been awarded a £2m contract to build the second phase of the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, following completion of the Bill Scott Sculpture Centre.

Financed by a £3m Arts Funding Prize for Edinburgh (provided by an anonymous donor) the Creative Laboratories will take the form of a single storey pavilion incorporating sculpture bays, project spaces, café arranged around a concrete courtyard complete with its own foundry.

Designed by Sutherland Hussey Architects and David Narro Associates the scheme is situated on old railway sidings in Newhaven and is intended to create a cultural hub, dedicated to research and production.

Maxi Construction's managing director, John Aitchison, commented: "Maxi Construction is looking forward to working with Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop and the project team in delivering an exceptional facility for the Scottish visual arts industry."

The project is scheduled for completion in June 2014.

[Graham]

[Graham]

[Graham]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/scotland/24060805
Scotland's National Performance Centre for Sport will be located at the Riccarton Campus of Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.

The £30m multi-sport facility is being constructed to help Scotland's athletes excel at elite level.

The centre will offer high performance support for football, rugby and volleyball and be operational by 2016.

[Graham]

Was ruined by fire, a new build is being built.

[Graham]

[Caismeachd]

St James Centre is ok how it is now. It's nicer now than when I lived here 16 years ago. I suppose it could be much larger though. Why do they have two Game shops?

[Graham]

---

---

[Graham]

[Caismeachd]

.

The building I work in is similar to that. It has the old building facade but a refurbished new glass building inside.