Edinburgh Business School
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Retrofit and reorganisation of a listed 1960s building with the addition of an entrance pavilion and new storey of accommodation
The B listed Adam Ferguson Building, designed by Robert Mathew in 1964, is part of a larger group of A listed 1960s university buildings around George Square. The original building has been renovated and extended to provide for the needs of the business school.
To the south of the existing building, on Buccleuch Place, a three-storey pavilion forms the school’s front door. The extension contains a large lecture theatre, café, and a processional staircase that connects the lower ground floor to the double height concourse.
In the existing building a central glass-roofed lightwell has been added, which visually connects the floors and naturally ventilates the open plan offices arranged around the new circulation core.
An additional storey of accommodation, constructed from a steel portal frame structure resting on the existing perimeter concrete columns, provides a new floor of column free space for the school.
Data
- Begun: Nov 2008
- Completed: Jun 2010
- Floor area: 6,820m2
- Sector: Education
- Total cost: £11.8M
- Address: 29 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9JS, United Kingdom
Professional Team 
- Architect: LDN Architects
- Client: University of Edinburgh
- Structural engineer: Sinclair Knight Merz
- M&E consultant: Buro Happold
- Quantity surveyor: KLM Partnership
- Main contractor: Interserve Building
- CDM coordinator: LDN Architects
