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Market Street Hotel, Edinburgh

A 98 bedroom boutique hotel with a rooftop lounge and terrace set within the heart of the Edinburgh World Heritage Site.

Architects' Journal Future Project Award  - Commendation

Date
2015

Client
EDI Ltd.

Value
£15m

jmarchitects were required to provide a design solution for this compact urban site which resolved numerous technical and contextual challenges including: the dramatic topography of the site; existing escape routes and services; enhancement of adjoining public spaces; mitigation of road noise; gaining full advantage of the superb views from the site and integrating sensitively into the Old Town roofscape whilst protecting the historic Edinburgh skyline.

Market Street Hotel: Princes Mall View
Market Street Hotel: Scott Monument View

Our design utilises the materials, proportions and geometries of its context in a contemporary proposal which we believe is respectful of the historic city whilst unapologetically of its own time and culture. The 8 storey hotel features 98 individual bedrooms in a large variety of configurations and with many different outlooks to the city offering a highly individual guest experience to each visitor.

 

A folded roofscape of dark whinstone gives shelter to the top floor ‘executive lounge’, a facility open to all guests which is housed within the hotel’s carefully sculpted attic storey. The lounge and associated external roof terraces enjoy panoramic views across the Waverley Valley to the New Town. The north and west elevations of the hotel will be clad with the traditional materials of sandstone and whinstone with the courtyard elevation to the south adopting white brick; as is common in the old town, to bring light down into the landscaped courtyard gardens below.

 

 

 

Timelapse film showing the construction process from April 2016 to October 2018:

Market Street Elevation

Project Gallery

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  • Parti Diagram 2: Plan
  • Market Street Elevation
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  • Market Street Hotel Contect Model
  • Market Street: Princes Mall View
  • Market Street: Scott Monument View
  • Dusk view from North Bridge
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The Challenge

The patterns of place and architecture within Edinburgh’s Old Town have been determined by many different factors throughout the life of the city, which have, in turn, generated an enormously complex urban condition.

The Solution

In understanding the historic patterns and processes of the Old Town, we have created a site specific response which celebrates the unique qualities of the City.

The Outcome

We look forward to seeing this world class hotel welcoming its first guests in Spring 2019.


 

Head Office

Contact head office

64 Queen Street
Edinburgh
EH2 4NA

T: 0131 464 6100
F: 0131 464 6150
edinburgh@jmarchitects.net

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