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Hidden Gardens Community HQ, Tramway Arts Centre
Other competitors:- Design Nord, Mckeown Alexander, Ciao, Studio KAP, Anderson Bell Christie, IDP and Davis Duncan


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Hidden Gardens Community HQ, Tramway Arts Centre, Glasgow

Edinburgh based, Oliver Chapman Architects have recently won a competition to design a community headquarters and garden office within the ‘Hidden Gardens’ landscape project beside the Tramway Arts Centre in Glasgow.

Their first competition win outside Edinburgh, this new building for the innovative arts organisation NVA, will include a single cell ETFE ‘bubble’ roof. It will integrate with the Hidden Gardens, a landscape project also coordinated by NVA, designed by City Design Cooperative collaborating with various Scottish artists.


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The architect, Oliver Chapman said that ‘it is to be an introverted building that will make small interior and exterior enclosures within the existing semi-demolished brick structures on the site. We hope that this will help create a sense of security and intimacy for the various communities that may use the building’.

If lottery funding is secured the project could be under-way early next year.

Oliver Chapman Architects are a young practice that have recently finished a dramatic house extension for international lighting designer Jonathan Speirs and also won an Edinburgh Architectural Association award this year for their ‘Bed Box’ project.

Hidden Gardens Community HQ - Building PR: Nov 2002




For more Hidden Gardens HQ info, contact:
Oliver Chapman on 07812 214 104, admin@oliverchapmanarchitects.com

was due for completion Feb 04

Adjacent to the Hidden Gardens is the Tramway Theatre by Zoo Architects (who in late 2004 combined with McGurn Architects to from ZM Architecture)

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