Hotel Missoni Edinburgh
Located on the Royal Mile, an existing 1960s office building has been demolished to make way for an elegant, new, mixed-use building including a hotel, a new HBOS bank branch and retail space. The buildings sits on the pivot point of three striking different characters of Edinburgh's Old Town: the Medieval Lawnmarket on the Royal Mile, the curving Bohemian street of Victoria Street and Victoria Terrace and the broad Victorian Improvement Street of George IV Bridge. Inspired by the tradition of hard-won public space carved out of the urban frontages (as seen in nearby Gladstone's Land on the Lawnmarket), new arcades are introduced to establish entrances for several additional uses brought to the site. The re-animation of the street with many uses - shops, café, hotel entrance, conference and health facilities, as well as a branch of a bank - is critical to the success of the design.
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