Meadowbank student housing plans submitted
March 11 2019
Summix Capital have filed plans for a £15m student residential build on Edinburgh’s London Road to deliver 198 beds opposite Meadowbank Stadium and adjacent to a further proposal for 33 flats.
The energy-efficient design will include low flow toilets, taps and showers. On-site cycle storage will discourage car use, with just four dedicated spaces provided.
Architects 3DReid have arranged accommodation across a mix of studio and cluster spaces the accommodation will also provide a community room, common areas and laundry.
A spokesperson for Summix said: “The development serves to address the increasing demand for student accommodation, fulfilling the ambitious growth plans of universities in the city, which are key drivers of the economy. This also helps to reduce pressure on the private housing market as well as delivering a substantial amount in additional expenditure into the local economy.”
The same team are also bringing forward plans for 91 student flats on the Canongate.
The student flats will extend an ongoing denification of the area
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For goodness sake learn to use commas properly!
2. Remarkably ugly inappropriate bulk devoid of architectural features and bearing no connection with the urban heritage of Edinburgh
2. Let your dog eat it.
3. Randomly dig something from lost projects freezer.
4. Write 3 paragraphs of jibbery jabbery 'urban village' or 'reduce pressure on the private housing market' (=more listings on AirBnb instead)
5. Profit
PS. Who on earth wants low flow shower?
Taking a longer view, it would appear to me that as digital technology has advanced over the last 50 years, the cultural relevance and need of architecture retreats to the point of this meaningless building, which is where architecture ends up. Nowhere.
A joyless, incoherent assemblage devoid of idea and language, masquerading as architecture with a sheen of a sophistication and an understated graphic style of no substance, or narrative. Here is Architecture imitating the digital. Life imitating non-life. This could equally be a Premier Inn anywhere in London.
Forget about the economics. That has always been a constant.
As I said - I dunno. This is just for discussion. Looking back just 40-50 years ago at the 'creative' 70's (not at the awful) and even into the 80's (apart from the horror of pomo) architecture and architects seemed to me to be still alive then (examples abound), working in their own perhaps naive way to be creative.
But now?
Nah.
I drove past that truly Orwellian student factory on Beith St in Glasgow the other day, called West 'Village'. A sign of the times. A period in history to be known in hindsight maybe as, 'when the bastards won?'
Of course, there are many reasons (or excuses) why this is the case. Way too many to go into a comments section on UR.
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