Making places that make a difference.
This year, 7N Architects celebrate the 15th anniversary of the prac�ce.
It’s a great opportunity to look back and celebrate the accomplishments of the team since the prac�ce was founded back in 2009, and to look forward to the bright future that has been created through everyone’s hard work and talents.
I’d like to give thanks to our many clients, collaborators, and past and present team members over the years, all of whom have made this possible and helped us in our endeavour to make be�er places.
Ewan Anderson
April 2024
Phoenix Flowers, Glasgow
An award winning public realm interven�on that reclaims a hos�le motorway environment for pedestrians and cyclists.
The project has transformed the inhospitable barrier of an elevated motorway into an appealing route that helps to regenerate the wider area in a radically new type of public realm.
Inverness Campus
A regional centre for innova�on, research, educa�on, and business, which is deeply embedded in the character of the neighbouring Sco�sh Highland landscape.
A linear park forms the heart of the campus that is focused on views of the mountains to the north. This layout draws the drama�c landscape deep into the site, whilst providing a cohesive character around which the diverse range of occupiers have established their own iden��es.
Wes�ield Avenue, Edinburgh
Transforming a forgo�en backland site into a vibrant mixed use neighbourhood through a holis�c approach to affordable sustainable housing.
Each building is oriented towards the greenery of the Water of Leith, ensuring all of the residents enjoy a river view, as well as opening up new pedestrian and cycle routes to the river. The green landscape permeates the site in a mixture of planted public realm and private gardens.
Glasgow City Centre Strategy
A strategy for Glasgow City Council to transform the experience of the city centre environment, for the benefit of both ci�zens and visitors. The ambi�on was to make the city a more peoplecentred place by shi�ing the balance from vehicles to pedestrians and cyclists.
The ‘Avenues’ concept was developed by 7N as a network of green routes within Glasgow’s street grid, allowing pedestrians and cyclists to easily and safely navigate through the city centre and connect to the surrounding neighbourhoods. Make the City Centre environment much more of a people place that transforms perceptions of Glasgow for visitors, citizens and investors.
Recalibrate the balance between vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists as a major step towards improving the quality of experience of the City’s streets and spaces.
As a key initiative to deliver this, introduce an integrated network of continuous pedestrian and cycle priority routes, Avenues, to connect key areas and transport nodes and link the City Centre with the surrounding neighbourhoods.
Use the Avenues as the binding mechanism to integrate regeneration and placemaking initiatives within each City Quarter and throughout the City Centre.
Create Portals around the perimeter of the City Centre to make it easier for pedestrians and cyclists to cross barriers, such as the M8, and to make positive links with the surrounding neighbourhoods.
Develop designated City Quarters within the City Centre to focus initiatives on specific neighbourhoods and character areas and inform planning policies for the next iteration of the City Plan.
Re-examine the designation of uses in specific areas where single uses may be inhibiting placemaking and perceptions.
Build on current initiatives, developments and funding streams (e.g. surface water management) to link the impact of initiatives together to form a greater whole whilst optimising the benefit of expenditure and investments.
Use the Avenues as a visible and tangible demonstration of the City’s intent to transform the quality of the environment for its future prosperity, the wellbeing of its citizens, and its readiness for climate change.
Fountainbridge, Edinburgh
An award winning masterplan for the transforma�on of a neglected canalside site into a vibrant, liveable neighbourhood.
The placemaking approach of the masterplan creates an environment where residents feel that they are occupants of not just their own homes, but of the buildings, shared spaces, and wider public realm.
The pedestrian friendly environment with an ac�ve frontage of cafés, restaurants, and shops, will reinvigorate the canalside, crea�ng a vibrant new place where there has been a void in the city for many years.
University of Glasgow
A major campus expansion for one of Scotland’s oldest universi�es, crea�ng a vibrant place to s�mulate ground-breaking learning and research.
Drawing on the University of Glasgow’s key strategic principles of People, Place, and Purpose, 7N’s placemaking approach focused on bringing people together in a dynamic urban environment to cul�vate progressive, collabora�ve research – a place that will enhance the student experience and encourage greater integra�on between academics, local communi�es, and entrepreneurial businesses.
Jordanhill Park, Glasgow
A new parkland neighbourhood in the extraordinary and historic se�ng of the former Jordanhill College campus, in the West End of Glasgow.
The 400 new homes, comprising a mix of townhouses, apartments, detached houses, and three refurbished historic buildings, have all been designed to engage with the landscape. 7N’s sensi�ve approach to the se�ng has retained the best of the historic parkland, complemented by new green landscape and public realm design that offers residents the chance to enjoy living in a mature parkland estate.
Fraser Avenue, Inverkeithing
7N worked with Fife Council, Kingdom Housing Associa�on, and the local community, to transform a 1960’s housing estate in Inverkeithing, Fife, which was one of the most disadvantaged areas in Scotland and no longer fit for purpose.
The project involved an extensive engagement process with residents, who felt alienated and lacked a sense of belonging.
7N’s masterplan addressed this through a placemaking framework where every space has a clear purpose and a defined sense of ownership, crea�ng a new neighbourhood that is woven into the social and physical fabric of the area.
Western Harbour, Edinburgh
A new neighbourhood on Edinburgh’s waterfront.
7N’s proposals for Western Harbour transform empty reclaimed land in the Port of Leith to create a new waterfront community comprising over 1,600 new homes within a mixed-use neighbourhood, which will include shops, commercial space, a health centre, and one of the largest new parks in the city for over a hundred years.
The new neighbourhood focuses on the public realm and the spaces between the buildings, to encourage people to inhabit and ac�vate their environment.
The Knab, Lerwick
7N’s masterplan for the site of the former Anderson High School in Lerwick re-purposes an important civic asset to meet the future needs of the Shetland community.
The masterplan creates a new neighbourhood, which interprets the historic forms and spaces that have evolved in Lerwick over �me, while revitalising historic buildings that are retained on the site.
The buildings are arranged to give protec�on from the worst of the harsh climate so that the spaces between buildings can become useful, sheltered, and characterful places.
Rowanbank Gardens, Edinburgh
A new community where it is easy to live sustainably.
7N’s approach for Rowanbank Gardens was driven by a desire to create a vibrant and dense development of mixed-tenure family homes. Designed to enable low carbon living, the development provides 126 apartments on a brownfield site that has great public transport access and ac�ve travel links to the city centre.
The design maximises its se�ng with green roofs, biodiverse landscaping, and produc�ve gardens. This green courtyard is the communal heart of the scheme, where residents can meet and socialise. Varied roofscapes serve to acknowledge and relate to the diverse mix of neighbouring buildings.
Re-Imagining Railway Sta�ons, UK
7N won an interna�onal RIBA compe��on for Network Rail to re-imagine what a ‘sta�on’ could become in the 21st century.
Our winning concept, selected from over 200 interna�onal entries, has been published as UK-wide design guidance. Designed to capture the iden�ty of the railways as a progressive and sustainable mode of transport, the new sta�ons will reinvigorate their pivotal civic role in serving communi�es throughout the country.
New Eidyn, Edinburgh
New Eidyn is a collec�on of 152 roo�op apartments sat within expansive residents’ gardens that provides unparalleled panoramic views over the skyline of Edinburgh and the Firth of Forth. The three dis�nct pavilion buildings sit alo� St James Quarter, one of the largest mixed-use regenera�on projects in UK.
Each of the apartments has been designed to feel authen�cally of Edinburgh. A considered pale�e of tac�le, natural materials – synonymous with the character of the city – have been carefully composed to create a sequence of spaces that enhance the experience of everyday life.
Haymarket Yards, Edinburgh
Haymarket Yards sets a new benchmark for the modern office to create a new kind of workspace that responds to evolving ESG policy requirements by priori�sing sustainability, wellbeing, and connec�vity to public and ac�ve transport.
The project will create over 225,000 NIA sq� of BREEAM ‘Outstanding’ workspace forming an urban campus at a key public transport hub.
Edinburgh Green
Edinburgh Green is an innova�ve reconfigura�on of the office park typology as an environment that will enhance the health and well-being of both, those who work there, as well as the surrounding community.
8.7 acres of richly landscaped parkland will be the focal centre of the campus, with a broad range of public ameni�es and mul�-use spaces interspersed in amongst the 716,800 NIA sq� of new sustainable office space.
West Town, Edinburgh
The West Town masterplan is an integrated placemaking and development framework to create a new 20 Minute Neighbourhood on the western edge of the City of Edinburgh, which will provide 7,000 new homes, associated mixed uses, and ameni�es, clustered around a tram stop.
The masterplan embodies the principles of a 20 Minute Neighbourhood, a fresh approach to urban planning and localism, which seeks to significantly increase the ability of people to meet their daily needs within a reasonable walking or cycling distance, therefore reducing dependence upon private vehicle use.
2009 Phoenix Flowers
Client: Glasgow Canal Regenera�on Partnership
Contractor: Land Engineering
Fabrica�on: Pudsey Diamond
Landscape: Rankinfraser Landscape Architecture
Photograph: Dave Morris Photography
2010 Inverness Campus
Client: Highlands and Islands Enterprise
Landscape: Lisa Mackenzie Consultancy
Photograph: Highlands and Islands Enterprise
2011 Wes�ield Avenue
Client: Hart Builders and Dunedin Canmore
Housing Associa�on
Project Management: Thomas & Adamson
Structures: Will Rudd
MEP: Keenan Consultancy
Photograph: Gordon Burniston
2012 Glasgow City Centre Strategy
Client: Glasgow City Council
2013 Fountainbridge
Client: City of Edinburgh Council, Cruden Homes, and Buccleuch Property
Project Management: Cruden Homes
Structures / Civil: E�ve Consul�ng
MEP / Sustainability: Atelier Ten
Landscape: Raeburn Farquhar Bowen
Fire: Jenson Hughes
Visualisa�on: Secchi Smith
2014 University of Glasgow
Client: University of Glasgow
Project Management: AECOM
Planning: Muir Smith Evans
Heritage / Conserva�on: Simpson & Brown
Visualisa�on: DAAKO
2015 Jordanhill
Client: Cala Homes (West)
Structures: Goodson Associates
MEP: Hulley & Kirkwood
Landscape: Horner + Maclennan
Heritage / Conserva�on: Simpson & Brown
Photograph: ZAC and ZAC
2016 Fraser Avenue
Client: Kingdom Housing Associa�on, Fife Council, and Campion Homes
Structures / Civil: Sco� Benne� Associates
Landscape: Rankinfraser Landscape Architecture
Community Engagement: Nick Wright Planning
Photograph: Gordon Burniston
2017 Western Harbour
Client: Forth Ports Ltd.
Development Management: Re�e & Co.
Project Management: Axiom
Planning: Holder Planning
Structures: Woolgar Hunter
MEP: Atelier Ten
Landscape: Rankinfraser Landscape Architecture
Visualisa�on: Darcstudio Masterplan
2018 The Knab
Client: Shetland Islands Council
Community Engagement: Nick Wright Planning
Landscape: Rankinfraser Landscape Architecture
Heritage / Conserva�on: GRAS
Civil: Narro Associates
Visualisa�on: Darcstudio
2019 Rowanbank Gardens
Client: Ar�san Real Estate
Project Management: Axiom Project Services
Planning: Porter Planning
Structures / Civil: Qua�ro Consult
MEP: Atelier Ten
Landscape: Rankinfraser Landscape Architecture
Visualisa�on: Virtual Planit
2020 Re-Imagining Railway Sta�ons
Client: Network Rail
Structures / MEP: ARUP
Landscape (concept): Lisa Mackenzie Consultancy
Landscape: LUC
Costs: Gardiner & Theobald
Visualisa�on: Pillar
2021 New Eidyn
Client: Na�ve Land, Nuveen Real Estate, and Queensberry Proper�es
Contractor: Beck Interiors
Project Management: Gardiner & Theobald
MEP: Wallace Whi�le
Landscape: OPEN
Fire: Jeremy Gardener Associates
Costs: Thomas & Adamson
Photograph: ZAC and ZAC
2022 Haymarket Yards
Client: Stamford Proper�es Ltd.
Project Management: Edmond Shipway
Planning: Sco� Hobbs Planning
Structures: Woolgar Hunter
MEP: Atelier Ten
Landscape: OPEN
Transport: Sweco
Agents: CBRE & Savills
Visualisa�on: DAAKO
2023 Edinburgh Green
Client: Shelborn Asset Management
Project Management: Edmond Shipway
Planning: Montagu Evans
Structures / Civil: Woolgar Hunter
MEP / Sustainability / Fire: Atelier Ten
Landscape: OPEN
Transport: Sweco
Agents: CBRE & Ryden
Visualisa�on: DAAKO
2024 West Town
Client: West Town Edinburgh Ltd.
Planning: Avison Young
MEP / Sustainability / Energy: Wallace Whi�le
Landscape: OPEN
Transport / Civil: WSP
Visualisa�on: DAAKO
What if…?/Scotland, exhibi�on at V&A Dundee 2021-22 designed and curated by 7N Architects to explore the wishes of ci�zens across Scotland for the future of the places where they lived.
Photograph by Alan Richardson