Complete with new helmet, Mathew tried the Edinburgh Cycle Hire Scheme on Monday.  The verdict was that the bike was nice (and called Craig), but the road surfaces were not. https://edinburghcyclehire.com/

As part of Doors Open Day 2018 – Sunday September 30th– Benjamin Tindall Architects and Edinburgh Steiner School  are running a joint model making workshop to encourage young people to participate in architecture. Students from class 9 to class 12 (S4 to S6) can attend. Contact Benjamin Tindall Architects by phone or email to reserve your place. For a downloadable brochure of Doors Open Days in …

The Edinburgh Festival is over, and we have started our very own Autumnwatch with a juvenile Kestrel perching on Ben’s windowsill: a great vantage point to look over our garden, the Grassmarket and George Heriot’s School. http://www.edinburghhawkwatch.org.uk/kestrel

We were lucky to have Andy Goldsworthy and his team using our office as their base in 2015 whilst filming the Edinburgh scenes of ‘Leaning into the Wind’, released this August.  It was fabulous to witness his ephermal creations being made, and the recent Guardian article and interview marking its release makes for a great read.

Amongst the many interesting artistic offerings at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe is a joint show featuring Japanese glass artist Keiko Mukaide on Howe Street. Keiko created permanent lit glass works for us at both the Hub and the Queen’s Gallery, both buildings which are worth a visit at any time of the year, but particularly during the Edinburgh Festival in August.

The BTA Team enjoyed a sunny scaffold trip to view the nearly-complete re-slating and re-harling works at Hermits and Termits.  Of particular interest were: ridge tiles, scroll skew-puts, the coat of arms and sunshine.  We also managed a new ‘office’ photo (with most of us in Hi-Viz).

On the 1st May at the Royal Society for Edinburgh, RIAS conferred on Naeem Hussain their Honorary Fellowship in recognition of the beauty and effectiveness of his wonderful designs and global achievements.  These include the Øresund Bridge and Tunnel linking Denmark and Sweden, the Stonecutters Bridge in Hongkong, and the Hulme Bridge in Manchester.  He deserves to be a household name as a bridge designer, just as much as Sir Baker …

Jill Watson‘s amazing 5m (17 feet) long Widows & Bairns memorial in Eyemouth, Berwickshire (for which Benjamin Tindall Architects designed the landscaping) has been given a Special Recognition award in the Scottish Civic Trust’s 2018 My Place Awards scheme.  Its artistic merit and enormous contribution to the area didn’t fit into any category and so a new one had to be invented.  The work …

Ben was privileged to meet Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwono X of Yogyakarta, the Governor of Yogyakarta Special Region, to give him and his wife, the Mayor and members of the Yogyakarta government a tour of Edinburgh’s Royal Mile. Yogyakarta, or ‘Jogja’, has a very similar main street, being a mile long between two volcanoes.  The visitors came to Edinburgh to see how …