2022 EAA Awards for Architecture

SMALL PROJECT AWARD

WINNER

FRASER/LIVINGSTONE ARCHITECTS

THE TOLLHOUSE 

JUDGES COMMENTS

“The Tollhouse stood out in the Small Project category as a visible building with a strong presence in the city. On an incredibly constrained sloping site, squeezed between a busy junction and the Water of Leith, the project delivers a new building which appears larger within, creating a new restaurant space which is intimate in scale and yet adaptable. Three separate restaurant spaces offer three contrasting experiences: the riverside terrace connects diners back to nature, the ground floor offers cosy private dining, and the upper volume is a light and airy space perched above the street looking out to all sides. On such a prominent site, there was a need for a building that would be seen in the round; the result is a striking new trapezoidal volume over the base of the existing public toilet block which it replaces. A pared back material palette focusses attention on this new form, and in retaining the existing toilet block as structure of the ground floor the project demonstrates the clear opportunities inherent in the considered reuse of existing fabric.”

Commendation

KONISHI GAFFNEY

GRANGE GARAGE STUDIO

JUDGES COMMENTS

“The Grange Garage studio is an exemplar of client-architect relationships, a project on which the homeowners, the architect and the craftspeople who delivered it have all left their mark. The detailing of the new timber elevation attached to the front of the existing garage effectively mediates between the scale of the house and garage, and is executed with a careful consideration of the wants and needs of the timber. The rhythm of the timber battens both horizontally and vertically and the scale of the new window bring interest and articulation to the front of the building without significant new structural works. The influence of the client as project manager is clear, and to have transformed their home so dramatically with no demolition for a relatively modest budget is a huge achievement.”

Commendation

TAP ARCHITECTS

REGENT STREET

JUDGES COMMENTS

“Regent Street and Grange Garage Studio, the other commendation in the Small Project category, share a number of themes; both challenge the conventions of residential extensions both by choosing to retain existing fabric as far as possible and by focussing their attention on small but impactful alterations which transform each client’s experience of using their home. Regent Street’s new extension is smaller than the one that it replaced.  It reinvents the semi-circular profile of other historic extensions along the street through a modern material palette, and it was clear to the judges how it had transformed the homeowners’ relationship with their garden, creating outdoor spaces on both levels and freeing the family up to live and play inside and out on their own terms.”

Many thanks to Fakro, sponsors of the EAA Small Projects Award 2022!

short-listed projects

The four short listed projects are (left to right above):

Craiglockhart Terrace  - Somner Macdonald

Grange Garage Studio – Konishi Gaffney

Regent Street – TAP Architects

The Tollhouse – Fraser/Livingstone Architects

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Congratulations to all short listed project teams!