McAlpine to start next year after Chipperfield’s £75m Edinburgh concert hall finally gets green light

2021-11-25T07:40:00

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Dunard Centre was subjected to legal challenge and redesign

Sir Robert McAlpine will start work next year on Edinburgh’s first purpose-built concert hall for 100 years after it was passed after a bruising planning process.

The £75m project by David Chipperfield Architects and Reiach & Hall was nearly derailed by an aggressive legal challenge by the developers of the £850m St James Centre, a neighbouring shopping centre and hotel complex masterplanned by Allan Murray Architects with BDP and Jestico & Whiles, nicknamed the Big Jobbie by hostile locals. It is being built by Laing O’Rourke.

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