History and Heritage
Our new Studio takes on a shop recently occupied by the Meadows Lamp Gallery that retained glimpses of fancy tiling and stained glass from its time as one of Scotland’s famous “Buttercup Dairy Co.” chain. A photo from a hundred years back showed other glories, and careful unpicking has revealed its wonderful brass, gilt and black glass sign, and the shopfront has been revealed and restored.
MAIN CONTRACTOR / Davy Neave of Braidwood Construction. Stair by Alistair Letch, Handrail by Bob Logan.
TEAM / Fraser/Livingstone Architects and Helen Lucas Architects - Will Cairns.
COMPLETION / Summer 2020.
The Working Studio
Inside was a different story, with no desire to conserve the charming Aladdin’s Cave interior, or lovingly restore the less-charming open-plan lavvies; and a modern, light-filled office, with a beautifully-turning stair bringing light into a new, lined basement meeting area, kitchen and toilet, has been created.
It’s a pre-covid concept: that sitting together is efficient and creative; that overhearing all that’s going on, and sharing information and solutions, and drawing together, is the most useful way to work.
So we’re Buttercup Studios, with the compulsory wearing of 1920s smocks and pinnies being actively considered. And every day a parade of wee children pulls their parents to our window to appraise the models – Mummy, Daddy, it’s a Castle! – home schooling.
