BENJAMIN TINDALL ARCHITECTS provide a traditional professional service to clients of all kinds; from large to small and commercial or institutional to individuals.  We have experience of many sorts of work including everything from meticulous academic conservation to new building, landscape design and product design. Our primary aim, however, is serving the client’s interests without seeking publicity. Creative, broad-minded and practical approaches combined with quality of workmanship are the fundamentals of the Practice’s approach. 

The Practice is only interested in good work.  We treat all projects in a collaborative, personal and fundamental manner, including Conditions Surveys.  Good solutions come from the courage in thinking broadly, aligned with wide experience and determination to produce clear advice and high quality solutions for the Client.  We also deliberately carry out a broad range of work, at small and large scales, old and new, bringing a wide range of skill and experience to each project.  This breadth of experience is essential for producing rounded solutions.

The Practice has 2 Partners, Benjamin Tindall and Paul Harding, and 8 staff working from a studio in the Old Town of Edinburgh.  The Partners take close personal involvement in all projects and are in control of them at all times.  The close involvement of the Client is an essential part of our approach to giving cost-effective advice.   

The Practice works, and over the years has worked, for a number of institutions. These include The Society of Writers to Her Majesty’s Signet, the Faculty of Advocates, the Royal Colleges of Physicians & Surgeons of Edinburgh, the Royal Botanic Garden, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society and the Edinburgh Festival Society. In educational work we designed the new Kindergarten for the Edinburgh Steiner School and a new refectory and teaching kitchens for Glenrothes College of Further Education. Commercial clients have included Morgan Grenfell’s Edinburgh office.  The Practice has recently completed some housing on the isle of Barra for a local housing association and is carrying out work for the new Queen’s Gallery at the Palace of Holyroodhouse.

Other staff in the office have wide experience in many fields other than those in which the practice has worked, these include, but are not restricted to:

Speculative office developments and company headquarters

Large speculative housing developments

High technology research and manufacture facilities throughout the world

Hotels

Schools for those with special needs

Swimming Pools