Richard Murphy Architects

Some more images of our project with the Scottish Historic Buildings Trust (SHBT) for the revitalisation of Leith Custom House.

We are delighted to unveil our proposals for the regeneration of Leith Custom House along with Scottish Historic Buildings Trust (SHBT).

The proposals include a landmark hybrid-use space incorporating Scotland's first fully digital museum.

The scheme aims to deliver 'a town square for the twenty-first century', by transforming the Category A-listed Georgian building into a fully accessible and sustainable culture and heritage destination in the heart of Leith. The ground floor comprises a series of community-creative studios available for working artists and makers, along with events and conference space for hire. Commercial and retail opportunities will ensure a sustainable future for the building, with Custom Lane opened up as a thriving eating and drinking destination, linking the Shore with Dock Place and Victoria Quay.

Eight dedicated exhibition rooms on the first floor will house the digital museum, harnessing the potential of digital display technology, these spaces will create a limitless range of exhibitions co-curated by community groups, guest curators, specialists and even members of the public.

The plans go on display at Leith Custom House from Friday 23rd August until Friday 6th September during the Open House: Leith Custom House Festival, as part of the city's Edinburgh 900 celebrations. The Gallery is open to all, so please go and have your say.

For full details, see the link in the bio.

Some images of our proposal for a new house at Blenheim Place.

The site, currently derelict land, sits between Greenside Parish Church and the office building at no.12 Blenheim Place. From the street, the house appears to be an anonymous single storey ashlar wall continuing the plinth of the adjacent church but from the garden to the south the house is two storeys with all the rooms facing south. Living spaces on the upper level are arranged around a roof terrace. The project has been submitted for planning permission.

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After ➡️ before for this of our two mews houses at 17 Circus Lane. The houses feature in the practice’s latest book, 10 Houses by Richard Murphy.

As a side note, we hope the trend of cars getting increasingly wider has reached is peak 🤞🏻

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Happy Birthday to DCA, 25 today! 🎉🎈🍾

Dundee Contemporary Arts Centre opened on the 19th of March 1999.

The site was originally a garage workshop which had lain derelict, the overall aim of the design was to group all of the activities; galleries, cinemas, print workshops, shop and research facilities around a central social space and café. The building partially reuses the brick warehouse of the former MacLeans Garage, and forms an “L” shaped plan on a site which falls 3 storeys from front to back. The café and foyer sit at the internal corner of this “L” and therefore form the heart of the building.

Upon opening, the Sunday Times observed “It is one of the most satisfying, sublime and stylish public buildings opened in years”. Since its opening the building has been a phenomenal success attracting more than three times the number of visitors expected.

Here’s to another 25 years! 🎉🎈🍾

Some reflections of our Greenock Ocean Terminal, now open to the public!

Come and visit now!

📸 - David Barbour

A summery photo of our recently completed house at Gullane, as featured in our book, "Ten Houses" by Richard Murphy

📷 - Crispin Rodwell
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Wonderful news and thouroughly deserved

We are all absolutely delighted that Andrew Anderson, who has been at Maggie’s for 24 years, has been given an OBE in the King's New Year Honours 2024 list for services to cancer support in the UK and abroad! 🧡

We are delighted to have recieved the first 100 copies of our new book - Ten Houses by Richard Murphy at our office this morning.

The book contains some of the practice's most iconic homes, spanning the past 30 years. Get yours now from Breakfast Mission Publishing - link in bio!

House Extension for a Holiday Cottage, Wooler, Northumberland
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Mews House on Circus Lane, Edinburgh
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A visual of the nursery interior for our MacMillan Hub Project in Edinburgh
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A visual of the nursery interior for our MacMillan Hub Project in Edinburgh
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We are delighted to feature in two recent publications. Our House at Strathaven Airfield can be found in "The Iconic British House: Modern Architectural Masterworks Since 1900." While you can also see our Edinburgh Maggie's Centre featured in "100 Buildings 100 Years" by the Twentieth Century Society.
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The main learning space of our Innovation Hub for Trinity College in Dublin is beginning to take shape
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Rendered Bay Window Study & Section Detail of our MacMillan Hub project in Muirhouse, Edinburgh
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Site plan and an aerial image of the construction progress for our MacMillan Hub project in Muirhouse, Edinburgh
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Its been a longer than usual road but we are delighted to announce our proposals for a new house at no.6 Braid Hills Approach have been approved by the planning committee this afternoon 🎉

https://theedinburghreporter.co.uk/2023/01/richard-murphy-on-unlocking-the-old-royal-high-school/

Some new images of our redevelopment of the former Royal High School on Calton Hill.

The building is being repurposed to house the National Centre for Music incorporating St Mary's Music School.

Check out the link in our story for a recent lecture given by Richard to the Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland.

We’re pleased to announce that our proposals for a new 3-bedroom house on Napier Road have just received planning permission.

We are hiring! Get in touch at the email listed if you think you'd be a good fit for our team.

Our proposals for a new Innovation Hub at Grand Canal Quay, for Trinity College Dublin.
 
Planning permission for the proposed conversion of the former site of L Connaughton & Sons Ltd in Grand Canal Dock was granted in December 2020. The building(s) will provide space for entrepreneurs, start-ups and innovation teams from large corporations. It will be the venue for organised regular events to bring together academics, start-ups, the local community and the enterprise community as well forming as a new public square with café and seating.

The Innovation Hub will also incorporate the landmark tower located on the campus, which began life in 1862 as a sugar refinery.