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Edinburgh, Turnhouse Road, Turnhouse Airport, Former Terminal Building
Terminal Building (20th Century)
Site Name Edinburgh, Turnhouse Road, Turnhouse Airport, Former Terminal Building
Classification Terminal Building (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Project Terminal
Canmore ID 270757
Site Number NT17SE 346
NGR NT 15597 74059
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/270757
- Council Edinburgh, City Of
- Parish Edinburgh (Edinburgh, City Of)
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District City Of Edinburgh
- Former County Midlothian
NT17SE 346 15597 74059
Architect: Robert Matthew, 1954.
Demolished c 1994.
For Edinburgh Airport see NT17SE 69 and for RAF Turnhouse see NT17SE 70.00.
Publication Account (1997)
Returning home after his seven years as Architect to the London County Council, Matthew resumed his work here with this demure terminal building, steel-framed on a rubble base, and clad in the timber weather-boarding typical of Matthew's search for a Modern arcitecture based on a Scottish 'theme'. Designed, like most of his public buildings, as a sequence of interpenetrating spaces and forms, the buidling was initially intended to handle 70,000 passengers annually, but to be capable of easy extension. By the early '60s it was handling ten times that number, and twice enlarged (in 1959 and 1965); eventually a completely new terminal was built in a separate site. Demolished in 1995. (Fig. 4.29).
Information from 'Rebuilding Scotland: The Postwar Vision, 1945-75', (1997).
