Student housing demand picks up office slack in Marchmont
June 15 2023
Infrastructure giant Balfour Beatty has brought forward plans for purpose-built student accommodation on the site of the Scottish Law Commission building at 140 Causewayside Street, Edinburgh.
At a public consultation taking place today at Mayfield Salisbury Church between 16:00 and 19:30, jmarchitects will set out their stall for the build, promising to incorporate a distinctive cast concrete frieze into their emerging design.
Early plans propose opening up the depth of the site with landscaped amenity courtyards to improve biodiversity, while the removal of a front door car park will improve the impoverished public realm.
A stepped-back ground floor will take the place of this dead space, activating the street and informing a series of stepped green roofs ascending through the height of the replacement building.
A formal planning application is expected in the autumn.
Emerging plans call for a sculpted series of green roofs deferring to its neighbours
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