Dezeen Debate options "well-sat" mass-timber housing in Edinburgh

The newest version of our Dezeen Debate e-newsletter includes a mass-timber tenement-style housing improvement by Scottish studio Fraser/Livingstone. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now.

Designed by the studio as a up to date addition to the historic website, the constructing is Scotland’s first developer-led, mass-timber housing improvement in Edinburgh.

Named Simon Sq., it consists of six flats and replaces an outdated builder’s yard on a website carefully bordered by Nineteenth-century stone tenements, in Edinburgh’s Southside.

Readers had a blended response. One described it as “out of character with its context” whereas one other thought “it sits effectively” and a 3rd agreed saying it is “delicate to its interval environment”.

Exterior of Větrník Kindergarten in Czech Republic by Architektura — Architektura has created the colorful Větrník Kindergarten within the Czech Republic

Different tales on this week’s e-newsletter that fired up the feedback part embody a “PoMo” nursery within the Czech Republic designed by Architektura, UK member of parliament Nick Fletcher’s “nonsense” criticism of 15-minute cities and “scary” chatbot ChatGPT’s warning to architects about the specter of AI.

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