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Futures Institute for the University of Edinburgh
Educational Facility in Edinburgh, Scotland ? by Bennetts Associates, Architects
29 Nov 2017
Edinburgh Futures Institute
Architects: Bennetts Associates
Location: Quartermile, Edinburgh, Scotland
Edinburgh Futures Institute
Former surgical hospital receives planning as university buildings

Edinburgh’s former Royal Infirmary Surgical Hospital, a category-A listed building at the heart of the Quartermile development, has received detailed planning permission to become a major new facility for the University of Edinburgh.

Designed by Bennetts Associates working with project managers Faithful+Gould, the scheme is to be known as the Edinburgh Futures Institute, and encompass 21,300sqm of floor space, of which 6,000sqm will be additional new space.
Edinburgh Futures Institute will bring together researchers from across the University with other partners to tackle major issues within the economy, education and societies across the world.
It will be a place that interrogates the opportunities and challenges of an age in which data and the digital disrupt old institutions and foster the creation of new ones.
This old hospital comprised multiple buildings from the 19th to the late 20th centuries including the original Royal Infirmary designed by David Bryce from 1870-1879. The architect was influenced by the ?p...