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Architecture, Designs and Plans

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

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

National Library of Scotland, 1973

 File
Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/B/7.1.4
Scope and Contents Set of copy drawings on transparencies (A1 size) showing the National Library of Scotland and the former Heriot-Watt University building in Edinburgh. There are 2 plans showing the former Heriot-Watt University building and the surrounding buildings at 1:200 scale. 1 of these plans shows the existing utilities while the other shows relative heights and surface information. Two of the plans show photographic elevations of Bristo Church, the National Library of Scotland and Heriot-Watt...
Dates: 1973

National Library of Scotland feasibility study: Heriot-Watt site, c1971

 File
Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/B/7.1.2
Scope and Contents

A copy set of plans (57cm x 72cm) relating to a feasibility study undertaken for the National Library of Scotland, in Edinburgh, concerning a possible extension into the former Heriot-Watt University site. The first set consists of 5 floor plans and a site plan showing possible use of the site. Additionally there is an elevation showing the planned development in relation to the other buildings in the vicinity. These drawings have no scale or credit information.

Dates: c1971

National Library of Scotland feasibility study: perspective drawings, c1971

 File
Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/B/7.1.3
Scope and Contents 6 manuscript perspective pencil drawings on transparencies with "letraset" (60cm x 84cm). These show 2 proposed schemes for a new entrance to the National Library of Scotland on George IV Bridge in Edinburgh and are part of the feasibility study into taking over the Heriot-Watt College building in Chambers Street. Views of the new entrance and views of it in conjunction with the existing frontage are given. There are also views of a proposed low-level walkway as it would be seen from The...
Dates: c1971

Plans of Chambers Street development, Edinburgh, 1925-1973

 Sub-Series
Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/B/7
Scope and Contents

Chambers Street development consists of:


  1. plans: National Library of Scotland feasibility studies, (c1971-1973)
  2. plans: Proposals for the new Museum of Scotland, (1925-1973)
  3. report on the Argyle Brewery Site, (1973)
Dates: 1925-1973