Architecture, Designs and Plans
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = PJM
Found in 37 Collections and/or Records:
Development of Bristo Square: design briefs, c1977-1979
File
Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/B/5.3
Scope and Contents
This file contains a selection of design briefs for Bristo Square commissioned by Percy Johnson-Marshall in his role as Planning Consultant to the University of Edinburgh. These include a Design brief for prospective architects, an urban design study and a full proposal by Percy Johnson-Marshall & Associates. A student group study, submitted as part of the University of Edinburgh Department of Urban Design and Regional Planning...
Dates:
c1977-1979
Development of Bristo Square: discussion notes, 1978
File
Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/B/5.2
Scope and Contents
This file contains discussion notes by Percy Johnson-Marshall, in his role as planning consultant to the University of Edinburgh. These cover the New Pedestrian Square at McEwan Hall ( 1978) and Lothian Street / Potter Row Realignment ( 1978) . Architectural drawings, maps and landscape plans are also included. Some of...
Dates:
1978
Development of Bristo Square: general administration files, 1976-1980
File
Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/B/5.1
Scope and Contents
This file contains the contents of 4 files dealing with the conception, design and development of Bristo Square as part of the University of Edinburgh Comprehensive Development Area (1962). Each file covers an individual year: 1976, 1978, 1979 and 1980. There is no file for 1977. The contents include draft and finished plans, architectural drawings, scenic drawings, reports and plans for an ideas competition. Detailed estimates for the cost of the project are included. Relevant University of...
Dates:
1976-1980
Development of the University of Edinburgh Student Amenity Centre, 1967-1970
Sub-Series
Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/B/8
Scope and Contents
Development of the University of Edinburgh Student Amenity Centre consists of:
- reports and photographs of architectural models, (1967-1970)
- University of Edinburgh Student Amenity Centre: architectural drawings, (c1967-1968
- plans, (c1967-1968)
Dates:
1967-1970
George Square redevelopment, 1960-1973
Sub-Series
Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/B/6
Scope and Contents
George Square redevelopment consists of:
general correspondence, (1969-1973)
Civic Trust Award, (1969)
reports, (1960-1973)
general photographs, (1965-1967)
plans: faculties of Arts and Social Sciences, (1964-1966)
plans: landscape and streetscape, (1964-1965)
plans: faculty of science, (1963)
...
Dates:
1960-1973
George Square Redevelopment: faculties of Arts and Social Sciences, plans, 1964-1966
File
Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/B/6.5
Scope and Contents
plans: tentative planning proposals: Arts and Social Sciences Precinct, (1964)
plans: Arts Faculty Block D - William Robertson Building and David Hume Tower, (1964)
plans: sketch layout of Windmill House area, (1964)
plans: Podium edge details - blocks C, D and E, (1966)
plans: Arts Faculty Block G feasibility study, (1965)
...
Dates:
1964-1966
George Square Redevelopment: plans: Faculty of Science, 1963
File
Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/B/6.7
Scope and Contents
3 copy pencil perspective drawings (38cm x 58cm) of the proposed University of Edinburgh Science Faculty Buildings, for 1st year students, at George Square in Edinburgh. These buildings were never constructed. One has pencil annotations of calculations.
Dates:
1963
George Square Redevelopment: plans: landscape and streetscape, 1964-1965
File
Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/B/6.6
Scope and Contents
Set of plans by Percy Johnson-Marshall Associates relating to the landscape and streetscape details of the development of the George Square area by the University of Edinburgh. The plans include:
George Square Gardens: a large scale, hand coloured base layout of George Square Gardens (42cm x 60cm)
University of Edinburgh: George Square area: treatment of south and east sides of the...
Dates:
1964-1965
Tentative planning proposals: Arts and Social Sciences Precinct, 1964
File
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
Found in:
University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections
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The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection
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Percy Johnson-Marshall Associates
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University of Edinburgh Comprehensive Development Area
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University of Edinburgh Comprehensive Development Area
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George Square redevelopment
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George Square Redevelopment: faculties of Arts and Social Sciences, plans
University of Edinburgh: "An Expanding University" - exhibition of university development at Adam House, correspondence, papers and photographs, 1960-1984
File
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