the City Future Choices
An Edinburgh Vision initiative by invitation to provide a platform for exploring the urban regeneration of a dormant site within the eastern fringe of the New Town. Our proposal looked at the positive effect that re-opening a branch line from Waverley Station (used by the City only for shunting rubbish) would have relative to the quality of operations that might be attracted to the site. The scheme has a new civic space at its heart with an exhibition centre and the National Gallery of Scottish Art flanking each side. A tram loop is taken off that proposed to run east- west through the City cutting through the piazza. New community housing with vast communal gardens-on the scale of Regent Gardens - is provided to the north with the Eurofed central clearing bank the other main ingredient amongst the mix of related uses required for a synergetic project.