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King’s Stables Road, Mixed-Use Development, Edinburgh

The architectural language and palette blends into the Old Town’s fabric

King’s Stables Road.
King’s Stables Road. Credit: Paul Zanre

RIAS Scottish Award winner 2021


Fletcher Joseph Associates for Peveril Securities and Campus DM
Contract value: £40m
GIA: 13,230m2
Cost per m2: £3,023

A true mix of uses is integrated into a historic city centre. A once undesirable street is activated by a seven-storey apartment block, student housing, a four-star apart-hotel of studios, garden flats and town houses and four commercial units. Set around public and semi-private courtyards, the development reconnects Grassmarket with the city’s West End. The architectural language, scale and muted palette blends into the Old Town’s fabric: sandstone, grey cladding and render; pitched slate roofs and dormers. The stepped facade bridges the gap  between street scale and a large adjacent office building.

  • King’s Stables Road.
    King’s Stables Road. Credit: Paul Zanre
  • King’s Stables Road.
    King’s Stables Road. Credit: Paul Zanre
  • King’s Stables Road.
    King’s Stables Road. Credit: Paul Zanre
  • King’s Stables Road.
    King’s Stables Road. Credit: Paul Zanre
  • King’s Stables Road.
    King’s Stables Road. Credit: Paul Zanre
  • King’s Stables Road.
    King’s Stables Road. Credit: Paul Zanre
  • King’s Stables Road.
    King’s Stables Road. Credit: Paul Zanre
  • King’s Stables Road.
    King’s Stables Road. Credit: Paul Zanre
  • King’s Stables Road.
    King’s Stables Road. Credit: Paul Zanre
  • King’s Stables Road.
    King’s Stables Road. Credit: Paul Zanre
  • King’s Stables Road.
    King’s Stables Road. Credit: Paul Zanre
  • King’s Stables Road.
    King’s Stables Road. Credit: Paul Zanre
  • King’s Stables Road.
    King’s Stables Road. Credit: Paul Zanre
  • King’s Stables Road.
    King’s Stables Road. Credit: Paul Zanre
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