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College Buildings

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 152 Collections and/or Records:

Report on the Argyle Brewery Site, 1973

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Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/B/7.3
Scope and Contents

Reports by Ian G Lindsay & Partners into the history of the disused Argyle Brewery site and a development proposal for student housing on the site. The reports were produced as part of the plans for redevelopment of areas around Chambers Street by the University of Edinburgh.

Dates: 1973

Sketch layout of Windmill House area, 1964

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Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/B/6.5.3
Scope and Contents

Copy of sketch layout plan at 1/16" = 1" of the area surrounding Windmill House, near George Square at the University of Edinburgh. The house was to be demolished to facilitate the construction of the new Arts Faculty buildings.

Dates: 1964

South Side Local Plan - residential tenure patterns, 1973

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Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/C/4.1
Scope and Contents

5 manuscript plans (95cm x 124cm) by the City and Royal Burgh of Edinburgh showing the residential tenure patterns within the boundary of the City and Royal Burgh of Edinburgh South Side Local Plan. There are 5 plans showing tenure patterns from the ground to the fifth floor, taken form the 1973 valuation roll. The plan showing the 4th floor is not present. The plans are hand-drawn in felt-tip pen on Ordnance Survey 1:1250 plans with the boundary of the Local Plan added.

Dates: 1973

South Side Local Plan - University of Edinburgh policy statement on development in the area covered by the South Side Local Plan, 1974

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Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/C/4.4
Scope and Contents 2 plans (88cm x 118cm) by the City and Royal Burgh of Edinburgh showing the University of Edinburgh policy statement on the area within the boundary of the City and Royal Burgh of Edinburgh South Side Local Plan. There are 2 plans. The first is a transparancy of an Ordnance Survey plan at 1:1250 scale with the boundary of the South Side Local Plan, header and scale information added. Letratone arrows and hand drawn boxes have been added. The second is a laminated paper print of the...
Dates: 1974

Southside District Plan - property ownership, 1973

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Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/C/4.2
Scope and Contents

Copy plan (94cm x 126cm) by the City and Royal Burgh of Edinburgh showing details of property ownership by large owners within the boundary of the South Side District Plan. The information is hand coloured in felt-tip pens onto an Ordnance Survey plan at 1:1250 scale with the boundary of the district plan marked on it. There is a coloured legend to the ownership parcels.

Dates: 1973

Tentative planning proposals: Arts and Social Sciences Precinct, 1964

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Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/B/6.5.1
Scope and Contents Set of 9 copy architectural plans and sections (62cm x 76cm), at 1:500 scale, of the proposed Arts and Social Sciences Precinct for the University of Edinburgh. All are stamped "draft for discussion only". 4 are hand overlaid using large-tip felt-tip pens to show proposals for pedestrian and traffic access and circulation at different levels of the development. 1 is similarly overlaid to show phasing information at podium level. There is a bird's eye view 3 dimensional view of the...
Dates: 1964

University Comprehensive Development Area map, 1965

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Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/B/1.8.9
Scope and Contents

Copy of a land-use plan for the University of Edinburgh Comprehensive Development Area (90cm x 127cm) by the City and Royal Burgh of Edinburgh. Land use parcels are identified by hand applied colour to a base map overlaid on a 1:1250 scale plan of the area. Acreages for the land parcels are given. There is a legend to the colour coding with total acreages for each land type.

Dates: 1965

University / Nicholson (sic) Street comprehensive development, 1963-1964

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Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/B/1.8.7
Scope and Contents 2 manuscript street layout plans (63cm x 102cm), by Percy Johnson-Marshall & Associates, for the University of Edinburgh / Nicolson Street Comprehensive Development Area. Detail is restricted to land parcels between street intersections and major buildings. The first plan sub-titled "Acreages and floor areas" contains statistics concerning site area, floor area and plot ratio for each site. The second plan sub-titled "survey of parked vehicles" gives street by street statistics for...
Dates: 1963-1964

University of Edinburgh: "An Expanding University" - exhibition of university development at Adam House, correspondence, papers and photographs, 1960-1984

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Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/F/3
Scope and Contents University of Edinburgh: Permanent exhibition of university development at Adam House, correspondence, papers and photographs file consists of: correspondence including notes concerning work required to set-up the exhibition, the possibility of reinstating it and concern about its future. completed information forms concerning the buildings to be profiled in the exhibition ...
Dates: 1960-1984

University of Edinburgh - Bristo Square, 1979

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Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/B/5.5.1
Scope and Contents 4 copy 1:200 scale civil engineering plans (83cm x 120cm) showing the Lothian Street / Potterrow junction in Edinburgh, prior to realignment for the creation of Bristo Square. An outline base plan, which has been used to create the other plans in this file, is on a transparancy. A plan (2 copies) showing height measurements [and bore holes] is also on a transparancy. A paper plan subtitled "Existing services" shows the utilities in the area, which would be affected by the construction of...
Dates: 1979