{"id":191153,"date":"2025-06-17T08:01:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T08:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/191153\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T08:01:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T08:01:13","slug":"edinburgh-office-to-hotel-conversion-goes-before-planners-june-2025-news-architecture-in-profile-the-building-environment-in-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/191153\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh office-to-hotel conversion goes before planners : June 2025 : News : Architecture in profile the building environment in Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 17 2025<\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbanrealm.com\/images\/news\/news_11509.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox-urban noopener\" title=\"Edinburgh office-to-hotel conversion goes before planners\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2549bbfca658c378f1173c60bde4dbea.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" alt=\"Edinburgh office-to-hotel conversion goes before planners\" title=\"Edinburgh office-to-hotel conversion goes before planners\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Artisan Real Estate has submitted plans to transform a sandstone office building on the edge of Edinburgh\u2019s New Town into a budget 102-bed hotel.<\/p>\n<p>Albany House at 58 Albany Street is a five-storey building constructed in the 1980s and was designed to reflect adjacent Georgian neoclassical townhouses.<\/p>\n<p>The proposals by <a href=\"https:\/\/citydev-portal.edinburgh.gov.uk\/idoxpa-web\/applicationDetails.do?keyVal=SX9RK9EWHE200&amp;activeTab=summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AMA Studio<\/a> will retain much of the external structure of the building whilst replacing the top floor facade with a contemporary new cladding. Internally air-sourced heat pump technology replaces a fossil fuel water system.<\/p>\n<p>Artisan\u2019s David Westwater, said: \u201cThis design proposal will bring continued interest and investment to a vibrant corner of Edinburgh\u2019s eastern city centre. The existing sandstone building is well-suited to hotel development with high levels of natural daylight and an established entrance area.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Whitbread will operate the hotel under its hub by Premier Inn brand when complete, defined by smaller room sizes catering for shorter stays.<\/p>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbanrealm.com\/images\/news\/newspic_13246.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox-urban noopener\" title=\"Much of the existing structure of Albany House will be retained\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/b127bdc062b7e2fba26f9e0c8bb4fac5.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"180\" height=\"160\" alt=\"Much of the existing structure of Albany House will be retained\" title=\"Much of the existing structure of Albany House will be retained\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Much of the existing structure of Albany House will be retained<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"June 17 2025 Artisan Real Estate has submitted plans to transform a sandstone office building on the edge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[7530,748,1102,78270,4884,44538,12,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-191153","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-architecture-in-the-uk","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-edinburgh","11":"tag-edinburgh-office-to-hotel-conversion-goes-before-planners","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-june-2025","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-scotland","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114697659062295519","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}