22-416: Marischal Square is a mixed use complex on Broad Street , Aberdeen , Scotland. The development is located on the site of St. Nicholas House, Aberdeen City Council 's former 14-storey headquarters building, whose demolition was completed on 18 June 2014, after staff had been relocated to the redeveloped Marischal College across the road. The premises is bounded by Broad Street to the east, Upperkirkgate to
44-589: A period of 35 years and receive part of the rental income from the tenants for that period. The development would revert to Council ownership after the 35-year period. The decision by the Council to select the Muse proposal was controversial with voting by Councillors split 23-20. The ruling Labour, Conservative and Independent coalition voted in favour whilst the SNP and Liberal Democrats were opposed. The pre-application planning process
66-542: Is a concert venue for music and performances and was opened by King George V and Queen Mary on 25 September 1925. The hall was supported by a gift from Annie, the Viscountess of Cowdray, "with a view to encouraging the taste for art and music in the City of Aberdeen". The Gallery was closed for a programme of renovations commencing in 2015. The £34.6 million redevelopment was designed by Hoskins Architects and carried out by
88-537: Is the Aberdeen Town House and Marischal College . During winter months the street is closed for the Aberdeen Christmas Market. Aberdeen Art Gallery Aberdeen Art Gallery is the main visual arts exhibition space in the city of Aberdeen , Scotland. It was founded in 1884 in a building designed by Alexander Marshall Mackenzie , with a sculpture court added in 1905. In 1900, it received
110-543: The Post-Impressionists and the Scottish Colourists , as well as applied arts and crafts. The central hall is supported by granite columns in a variety of colours, derived from different quarries in the local area and far beyond. At the western end of the building, with a room inside and a monument outside, is a major war memorial . The war memorial was built in the 1920s as a part of the rapid expansion of
132-627: The Aberdeen Art Gallery and was funded by a public subscription. The Memorial Court court has a display of several books of remembrance and rolls of honour, commemorating the fallen of World War I , World War II , the Merchant Navy and Fishing Fleets in World War II, and from conflicts after 1945. Another addition to the Gallery during this time of rapid expansion was Cowdray Hall. Cowdray Hall
154-457: The Council. The short-listed designs were made public in April 2013 and Manchester based Muse Developments in a joint venture with Aviva Investors were selected as the preferred bidder on 1 May 2013. It was estimated by the Council that the development would attract 3000 extra people into Aberdeen city centre daily. Muse's bid includes provision for the Council to lease the development from Muse for
176-400: The art collection of Alexander Macdonald, a local granite merchant. The gallery is noted for its fine collection of modern Scottish and international art, including works by Ken Currie , Gilbert & George , Ivor Abrahams , Bridget Riley and Bruce McLean . Following a competition, the winning design by Alexander Marshall Mackenzie and James Matthews began construction in 1883 and
198-400: The corner of Broad Street. This was in light of the decline in use of Marischal College as a teaching facility for medicine, with only a few areas remaining in use for other purposes. Public university use of Marischal College finally ceased completely in 2008 in preparation for Aberdeen City Council's renovation and use of the building. This carried implications for the commercial viability of
220-474: The development. Weighing more than two tonnes and five metres high, it is mounted on top of a ten-metre pole. The figure, titled Poised , took more than a year to be completed and is Scott's first sculpture in the north east. Details of heads of terms with building tenants were released by Aberdeen City Council in March 2021, showing that lease incentives totalling £4.49 million had been granted to tenants. There
242-640: The format of the award to five winners in response to the challenges faced by the museum sector during the COVID-19 pandemic . The Fine Arts collection of the Aberdeen Art Gallery has grown steadily since its foundation in 1885, highlighted with works by such artists as Monet and Renoir as well as more modern artists like John Bulloch Souter , Ian Hamilton Finlay , and James McBey . The permanent collection includes 18th-century works by Henry Raeburn , William Hogarth , Allan Ramsay and Joshua Reynolds , and 20th-century works by Paul Nash and Francis Bacon ,
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#1733092600872264-569: The local area: Despite the presence of the Bon Accord & St Nicholas shopping centre nearby, businesses on the Upperkirkgate were affected by the new absence of university students from the area. Aberdeen City Council voted to demolish St. Nicholas House in October 2011. Despite calls to find a public and non-commercial use for the space on part of local SNP councillors, the council chose to market
286-531: The north, and Flourmill Lane to the west. Comprising 0.981 hectares (2.42 acres), it was developed in a single phase and completed in 2017. The two office buildings, named 1 and 2 Marischal Square respectively, contain ground-floor receptions operated by the landlord. 1 Marischal Square is the larger of the two, with a net floor space of 122,174 sq ft (11,350 sq m) and 164 underground parking spaces. By comparison, 2 Marischal Square has 54,677 sq ft (5,095 sq m) of floor space, and 78 underground parking spaces. Besides
308-569: The office space of the station's owners DC Thomson , publishers of local newspaper titles The Press and Journal and Evening Express . There was formerly a Prezzo restaurant. It closed in 2021. The area in which the development is situated had undergone significant changes over the past two decades. At the close of the 2003/04 academic year, the University of Aberdeen removed the Students' Association from its former building on 2-4 Upperkirkgate on
330-450: The pedestrianisation of Broad Street to create a civic space between the development and Marischal College. Provost Skene's House which dates from the 17th century would be retained as part of the proposals. The first shop in the square, Mackie's ice cream parlour, opened in December 2017. A steel sculpture of a leopard, designed by Andy Scott , is the central feature of the atrium within
352-607: The two office buildings, the site contains the Aberdeen Residence Inn by Marriott hotel. This corners the Provost Skene's House museum , with a large public green space separating the two. In addition, there are a number of gastronomic outlets including All Bar One , Costa Coffee , Mackie's of Scotland and Tony Macaroni . On 25 June 2019, Aberdeen local radio station Original 106 commenced broadcasting from their new studio complex located at 1 Marischal Square, within
374-621: The vacant site on the open market, in recognition of the decline in commercial activity the area had experienced. A two-stage selection process followed, and in August 2012 it was announced that thirteen offers had been received by the Council from interested developers. All bids were for mixed-use developments comprising hotel, office, retail and restaurant/café use and varied between 180,000sqft to 650,000sqft with parking for 150 to 600 vehicles. In October 2012 four bidders were short-listed to move onto stage two and present more detailed design proposals to
396-682: The warm public affection for Provost Skene's House". The square won both the Project of the Year, and Public Realm & Landscaping awards in the Aberdeen Society of Architects annual design awards in 2018. Broad Street, Aberdeen Broad Street is a street in Aberdeen which joins Union Street in the southeast and the Gallowgate and Upperkirkgate in the northwest. Pedestrianisation of Broad Street
418-498: Was completed summer 2013. Public consultation events took place Aberdeen Art Gallery later that year. Marischal Square would comprise 175,000 sq ft of office space; 5,000 sq ft of restaurant space; and 18,638 sq ft of retail and leisure space which would include a circa 150-bedroom hotel boutique hotel . Indicative designs show several linked buildings, the highest of which would be 10 storeys from Flourmill Lane. The development would also feature gardens, glass roofed court-yards and
440-514: Was discussed in 2013, at which time a completion date of 2016 was predicted. Pedestrianisation was approved in October 2016. Work to partly pedestrianise the street began in May 2017. It remains accessible to buses and cyclists in a shared space format. There has since been proposals to ban buses from the street. On one side of the street is the Marischal Square development. On the other side
462-511: Was opened in 1885. There were further additions, again by Mackenzie, in 1901 and 1905, including the addition of a sculpture court. In April 2020, the gallery made 50 artworks available digitally via the Smartify app. In October 2020, Aberdeen Art Gallery was named one of the five winners of the 2020 ArtFund Museum of the Year Award . ArtFund increased the prize money to £200,000 and changed
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#1733092600872484-493: Was opposition to the development, with protestors concerned that it would affect views of Marischal College and Provost Skene's House. In January 2015, several hundred demonstrators formed a human chain around the site in protest. In response, Muse stated that the development would demonstrate "considerable respect to the city's granite tradition as well as the undeniable beauty and artistry of the Marischal College building and
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