Black Bull Close
This project involved the detailed repair and extension of a ruinous Category B listed building in Dunbar to provide vital community spaces, including a training kitchen and workshops, demonstrating a successful model for integrating historic preservation with community empowerment and job creation.
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Johnnie Walker Princes Street
The transformation of a vacant Category B listed department store into Johnnie Walker Princes Street, a major new visitor experience and global brand home for the iconic whisky. The mixed-use building comprises a fully accessible and immersive tour supported by retail, bars, office and event space.
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National Centre for Music
The transformative reuse, conservation, and restoration of the iconic Thomas Hamilton-designed Old Royal High School on Calton Hill in Edinburgh, into the new National Centre for Music.
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Cameron House Hotel
Following a devastating fire in December 2017, Simpson & Brown have been involved as conservation architects in the restoration process to bring the B-listed Cameron House back into use.
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Hamilton & Inches
The restoration and reimagining of Hamilton & Inches' jewellery & watch showroom and workshops on Edinburgh’s George Street. The brief was to restore the building's original historic features and to create a space that celebrates its heritage whist incorporating contemporary design.
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Perth Theatre
Simpson and Brown acted as Conservation Architects to conserve and repair the auditorium at Perth Theatre, an important regional theatre and a good example of a compact late Victorian auditorium design with good decorative scheme despite substantial repairs following a fire in 1924.
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Gleneagles Townhouse
Conversion of a Category A listed bank to a new city centre hotel & spa, for Perthshire luxury hotel firm Gleneagles
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Mansfield Traquair
Simpson & Brown led this £4.1 million project. It involved the comprehensive repair of the external building fabric and the extensive re-modelling of the interior to provide modern office space.
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Leith Community Croft Pavilion
Leith Community Croft is operated by Earth in Common, a charity that exists to tackle a broken food system, climate change and social inequality locally, nationally, and internationally.
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Alderman Fenwick's House
With medieval origins the house is one of the most important mercantile town houses in the United Kingdom. Simpson & Brown undertook a full restoration project under the appointment of the Tyne and Wear Building Preservation Trust.
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86-88 High Street Dunbar
Mixed use development of a Category C listed burgage plot for a social enterprise charity in Dunbar town centre.
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Alderstone House
Originally a 17th century Tower House, Alderstone has been extended and adapted over the centuries. Simpson & Brown was commissioned to alter and extend the building to accommodate extensive modern office space.
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Newhaven Fishmarket
Simpson & Brown was approached to prepare plans for the consolidation and repair of the existing B-listed former Fishmarket and to subdivide the disused space in the southern half of the building to create new restaurant/retail units.
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Stewart's Melville College
The competition-winning design for work at Stewart's Melville College in Edinburgh proposed major alterations to the assembly hall within the A-listed 19th century Old College building.
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Blairtummock House
Blairtummock House is a category B-listed building in Easterhouse, Glasgow. Simpson & Brown were the architects for its conversion to an Enterprise Centre providing office accommodation as part of the area regeneration.
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King's Theatre, Glasgow
Works at the King's Theatre included rebuilding the stalls and upper circle floor, installing a flexible orchestra pit, new seating throughout and strengthening works to the upper circle balcony front.
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Cringletie House Hotel
Cringletie House is a mid-19th century Scots Baronial mansion near Peebles, now operating as a luxury Hotel. In 2004 Simpson & Brown carried out extensive remodelling work including the addition of a new lift.
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26-31 Charlotte Square
Simpson & Brown was commissioned in July 1996 to repair and restore six town houses in Charlotte Square to form the new Headquarters for the National Trust for Scotland.
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Langley Castle Hotel
A contemporary dining pavilion extension to the grade 1 listed Langley Castle in Northumberland. The pavilion touches the castle walls lightly minimising the impact of the new against the powerful composition of the original structure.
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Gardyne's Land
Simpson & Brown produced a Feasibility Study for the conversion and restoration of the Gardyne's Land buildings in Dundee. This culminated in the proposal for conversion into a Youth Hostel. Works began in 2000 and completed in 2005.
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Acheson House
Simpson & Brown led an extensive and complex re-roofing project at the Category A listed 17th Century Acheson House, situated on the historic Canongate in Edinburgh's Old Town.
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