The Toll House, located in the centre of Edinburgh, has been shortlisted for the 2024 RIAS Awards. Congratulations to our client, Edinburgh MI, along with all consultants who worked on the project.
The project seeks to bring the addition and the extant together by interpreting meaning from the surrounding place. The existing lower floor and walls have been retained, and the roof replaced with a new trapezoidal pavilion perched over the water.
Expansive openings connect the interior to the single mature corner tree, to the Canonmills Clock, to the mature bank of trees, and to the bridge and river, bringing its burble into the new restaurant and animating the intersection of streets, imbuing the building with a civic presence.
Building, bridge, trees, clocktower and river all combine to form a piece of civic drama as the backdrop to a new restaurant offering by Dine.
Simon Square, our recently completed CLT tenement located in the centre of Edinburgh, has been also been shortlisted in the 2024 RIAS Awards. Congratulations to our client, Seven Hills Property, along with all consultants who worked on the project.
The project echoes a traditional Scottish tenement, built in a contemporary way, out of healthy, carbon-locking solid structural timber with the form embracing light, view and openness.
Located on a tight site, in Edinburgh’s Southside, surrounded by a diversity of 19th century stone tenement, Simon Square contains 6 flats, two per floor with the upper extended up into a duplex with rooftop terrace. The form pulls itself up to its north boundary to create a shared entrance court to the south, protected from the street but enlivening it.
The final winners for the 2024 RIAS Awards will be announced on 3rd June.
