Pedestrian Bridge
Gorebridge Beacon, Midlothian
Newbyres Castle
Conservation Area Regeneration Scheme
Stobs Gunpowder Mill
Grange House Transformed
Halvorsen Architects have just finished major works to a house in the Grange, a conservation area on Edinburgh's south side which was first developed as an early suburb from the 1820s. ...
Gail Halvorsen February 13, 2020
Sun trap in Dunbar
Halvorsen Architects recently finished an extension to and remodelling of a 1970s house in Dunbar, East Lothian. A sun room, at the heart of the house, links the principal rooms...
Gail Halvorsen September 16, 2019
House Extension, Leith, Edinburgh
client private engineers CRA Ltd. contract value £57,000 area 35 sq. m. An extension to a Victorian house in Leith, Edinburgh, this project was designed to maximise the light coming in...
Gail Halvorsen August 16, 2018
New playground, Eskbank, Midlothian
client Genesis (J&T) Ltd (Trading as Happy Days Nurseries) Happy Days acquired a new nursery in Eskbank, Midlothian, a year ago and asked Halvorsen Architects to design an imaginative and original new playground for...
New pre-school nursery, Haddington, East Lothian
client Genesis (J&T) Ltd (Trading as Happy Days Nurseries) This is our proposal for a nursery school on the outskirts of Haddington, East Lothian. It is located in the large,...
New classroom
Pre-school pupils recently moved into their new brand classroom at Happy Days nursery, Hardengreen, near Dalkeith. The client wanted an extension to its existing nursery, which could be quickly constructed...
Woodland Nursery, Eskbank, Midlothian
client Genesis (J&T) Ltd (Trading as Happy Days Nurseries) engineers CRA Ltd. area 130 sq. m. Happy Days moved in to Hardengreen House, Eskbank, Midlothian – a large Georgian house originally...
Gail Halvorsen August 7, 2018
Woodland to playground
Halvorsen Architects have just completed phase I of a new playground at Happy Days' Eskbank nursery school. All the oak and larch trees were sourced from nearby woodland – trees...
Extension to Happy Days Nursery, Dalkeith – Phase I
client Genesis (J&T) Ltd (Trading as Happy Days Nurseries) engineers Gordon Eadie and Iain Thew contract value £150,000 area 48 sq. m. new build, 30 sq. m. refurbishment This is...
Gail Halvorsen May 9, 2017
Restoration of Georgian House, Gorebridge
client private 14 Main Street is a listed Georgian house in the heart of Gorebridge's old town. It falls within a conservation area that is part of the Conservation Area...
Old dairy restoration
45 Main Street is a listed Georgian house in the heart of Gorebridge's old town. It falls within a conservation area that is part of the Conservation Area Regeneration Scheme (CARS) funded by...
Gail Halvorsen January 15, 2016
Passivhaus Studio, Edinburgh
client private engineer CRA Ltd. contract value £70,000 area 55 sq. m. The client lives in a listed 1950s, Morris and Steadman house – the 'Upside Down House', and needed...
Gail Halvorsen December 17, 2015
DNA sculpture, travelling UK
Poet Melissa Bailey asked me to collaborate with her on the design an installation that represents DNA and it's unchecked mutations that can lead to cancer. She wanted a sculpture related to her...
Wooploft, Scottish Borders
As part of the wood workshops I run with Stephanie Walker, Wooploft was one of the most ambitious. Pupils from Tynewater Primary School's P7 class designed and built the structure...
Newbyres Castle, Midlothian
Newbyres castle is one of those hidden gems. Tucked away behind Newbyres Hall on Gorebridge Main Street, you could once have quite easily walked past the ruins, which were covered...
Happy Days nursery, Midlothian
I have done several projects with children and schools with Gorebridge Community Development Trust. One of these projects – Wooploft – caught the eye of a new client, Genesis (J&T)...
House in area of outstanding natural beauty, Midlothian
client private engineer CRA Ltd. contract value £300,000 area 140 sq. m. The client wants a family house for a stockman in an area of outstanding beauty overlooking Crichton Castle....
Gail Halvorsen December 6, 2015
House extension, Midlothian
This is an extension to a Georgian sandstone house in Midlothian, using a timber frame, timber cladding and large areas of glass. The cladding is Siberian Larch – a popular...
Gail Halvorsen November 26, 2015
Extension to and remodelling of house, Bristol
This project was for a client for an extension to and remodelling of house, Bristol that I had worked for in London. He had a similar situation in Bristol –...
House on site of barn, Midlothian
Planning permission has been approved a four-bedroomed house in rural Midlothian on the footprint of a redundant pole barn. The plan, height and roof profile were all dictated by the...
House extension, London
The clients wanted a new play room and bedroom extension for their listed Georgian terraced house in Marylebone, central London. The challenge for Halvorsen Architects was to provide reasonable accommodation...
Gail Halvorsen November 7, 2015
Plaswyck Park, Rotterdam
Plaswyck Park is a popular park and zoo in a suburb of Rotterdam. The clients wanted to move the main public entrance to the opposite side of the park and...
Gorebridge Locality Plan, Midlothian
In 2009 Midlothian Counil asked Gorebridge Community Development Trust to . . . . . . text to follow.
Green roof, Edinburgh
Green Roof Bicycle Shed client private contract value £20,000 area 6 sq. m. Logistical problems of storing bicycles and recycling bins at the bottom of a steep stepped path up...
House extension, Essex
The clients wanted to make their modern 1970s house and outbuildings less fragmented and open up the interior to the garden. The scheme unifies the various elements with a series...
Westminster underground station, London
Westminster Underground project and site architect in collaboration with Ove Arup & Partners client London Underground Ltd engineer G.Maunells and Partners landscape architects Wong Tung and Partners contract value £32...
Halvorsen Architects were asked to replace an existing lean-to extension and remodel the interior of part of a Georgian house in Lasswade, Midlothian. All the internal walls in the area...
Fern roof, East Lothian
client private contract value £20,000 area 8 sq. m. Shepherd House sits in a spectacular Grade B Listed walled garden that is open to the public. All elements of the...
Timber barn, Midlothian
The clients wanted a large rural barn/shed in which to store agricultural, gardening and leisure equipment. The building is clad in timber and carefully detailed, which means it is a...
Gail Halvorsen October 31, 2015
Wesley Crescent, Bonnyrigg, Midlothian
Wesley Crescent, Bonnyrigg, Midlothian client private engineer CRA Ltd. contract value £90,000 area 43 sq. m. The clients for this residential extension had recently returned from living in France and...
client Gorebridge Community Development Trust architect Lee Boyd engineer David Narro Associates mechanical and electrical engineer Irons Foulner Partnership landscape architects Rankin Fraser contract value £2.7 million I joined the...
House extension, Edinburgh
Greenhill Place, Edinburgh client private engineer CRA Ltd. contract value £90,000 area 58 sq. m. The brief was to replace and enlarge an existing poorly built 1970's extension to a...
The New House, Buckinghamshire
The New House, 1992-94, Amersham, Buckinghamshire client private engineer Whitby and Bird Engineers contract value £375,000 area 380 sq m The client asked for a modern house that would benefit...
ECAN 10 Year Exhibition, Edinburgh
Edinburgh Chartered Architects Network (ECAN), the largest network of small architectural practices in Scotland, held an exhibition at the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) to celebrate its tenth...
Youde Aviary, Hong Kong
Youde Aviary, Hong Kong 1991 client Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club engineer Ove Arup & Partners landscape architects Wong Tung and Partners contract value £2.05 million area 5,000 sq m...
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