BCO Awards 2024, Scotland 29.04.24

1 New Park Square has won a BCO Award in the Commercial Category in Scotland.

Begun in the early 1990s with a masterplan by Richard Meier, Edinburgh Park is a linear development, running north/south along the western edge of the city of Edinburgh. As part of the Dixon Jones masterplan to redevelop the site, AHMM has designed several office-led mixed use building providing over half a million square feet of workspace, and related amenity facilities. 1 New Park Square is the first of these buildings and forms an important landmark signalling the end of the existing park and creating a backdrop to a new civic square designed by Gross Max.

At ground floor, a café and restaurant / music venue opens out onto the new public square. The building also houses a conference centre with four storeys of flexible office space above. The office floors are designed to allow for multiple configurations, allowing the space to be let as a single office space or split for up to three tenants.

1 New Park Square is an exemplar at Edinburgh Park and a catalyst for the future office typology. It aligns with the demands of the modern-day tenant and a world where carbon and energy consumption is to be significantly reduced. It is an office building that offers more than just workspace: it provides a landscaped backdrop to public life, and the integration of culture and collaborative spaces help create a building whose ethos is one centred on its people.