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Printmakers in Edinburgh, Scotland
Industrial Building Restoration Development in Edinburgh, Scotland ? design by Page Park
9 May 2019
Edinburgh Printmakers
Architects: Page Park
Location: Castle Mills, 1 Dundee Street, Edinburgh, EH3 9FP, Scotland

The Edinburgh Printmakers Printmakers new creative hub is located within what once was the headquarters of the North British Rubber Company (NBRC). Our project involved the redevelopment of this derelict building into a multi-use arts complex centred around printmaking production.

Central to the architectural concept was to make precise interventions to facilitate new use while respecting the character and story of the existing building. Before:

The NBRC building is the only surviving structure from the once large and important nineteenth century Castle Mills industrial complex. At its height, NBRC employed over three thousand people and produced a vast array of rubber products on site, including the famous Hunter welly boot. During the First World War, 1,185,036 pairs of rubber boots were made for the army with the mills running 24 hours a day to keep up with demand.

The Printmakers? brief included provision of two galleries, shop, café, education space, staff offices, environmentally controlled archives, eight creative industries units and a large print studio.

New architectural elements are light of touch and stem from an und...