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Architecture, Designs and Plans

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

Found in 265 Collections and/or Records:

George Square redevelopment, 1960-1973

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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

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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: general correspondence, 1969-1973

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Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/B/6.1
Scope and Contents

Contents of a slim file relating to different aspects of the project to redevelop George Square undertaken by Percy Johnson-Marshall & Associates. It contains correspondence, both internal and external to the University of Edinburgh, and some papers relating to the University of Edinburgh Works and Buildings Committee Sub-committee on Grounds Maintenance.

Dates: 1969-1973

George Square Redevelopment: plans: alteration plans for existing houses, 1968

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Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/B/6.10
Scope and Contents

Set of 7 plans produced at 1/8" scale and 1/6" scale, by the University of Edinburgh Works Department and the Department of Architecture, showing details of proposed alterations to various properties by the University of Edinburgh in George Square in Edinburgh. Properties affected are nos 10,11, 12 and 59.

Dates: 1968

George Square Redevelopment: plans and drawings for Edinburgh University Main Library and Liverpool University Library, 1960-1967

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Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/B/6.8
Scope and Contents George Square Redevelopment: plans and drawings for Edinburgh University Main Library and Liverpool University Library consists of: set of plans, by Sir Basil Spence, Glover & Ferguson, entitled "University Library" consists of 12 plans and 5 elevations, mostly at 1/16 scale. There are 5 different versions of the site plan, floor plans for the lower ground, ground and second floor, 2 different...
Dates: 1960-1967

George Square Redevelopment: plans: Faculty of Science, 1963

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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

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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

George Square Redevelopment: plans: University of Edinburgh - preliminary layout of George Square, February 1955

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Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/B/6.11
Scope and Contents

1 copy of a layout plan (62cm x 75cm) by Sir Basil Spence showing the proposed layout for the George Square area of the University of Edinburgh at approximately 1:2500 scale. The plan includes the library, medical school, student's union and chapel.

Dates: February 1955

Gladstone Park School, 1937

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Identifier: PJM/WBC/B/15
Scope and Contents

5 copy architectural plans (72cm x 128cm) for a proposed new school at Gladstone Park, Willesden. These include plans, sections and elevations at 8 feet to 1 inch scale, marked drawings number 1 and 2. There are also drawings numbers 5, 9 and 15 which comprise details of the the playshed and paddling pool at 8 feet to 1 inch scale and the main entrance, and assembly hall all at 0.5 inch to 1 foot scale. The architect for project was the borough engineer F Wilkinson.

Dates: 1937

Heriot-Watt University facade photographs, c1973

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Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/B/7.1.5
Scope and Contents Large scale black and white photographic prints (maximum size 51cm x 60cm), which join together to show the full facade of the former Heriot-Watt University building in Chambers Street in Edinburgh. The adjacent Bank of Scotland, former dental hospital and Minto Street are also included. The statue of James Watt, later removed to the new Heriot-Watt University campus can be seen in situ as can busts of the founders of Heriot-Watt University: George Heriot and Leonard Horner. Some of the...
Dates: c1973