St Andrews Links Trust HQ, New Fife Building Photos, Modern Architecture in East Scotland
St Andrews Links Trust HQ
16 April 2022
Design: Nicoll Russell Studio

Photos by Keith Hunter
St Andrews Links Trust Headquarters
St Andrews Links Trust operates, maintains and promotes the seven public golf courses that constitute the internationally renowned ?Home of Golf? in St Andrews, Scotland.

Their new HQ, designed by Nicoll Russell Studios following an invited competition, is located near the Eden Clubhouse in a semi-defined area of historical development within the wider links landscape. Remnant boundary walls and mature trees on the site sit in contrast to the open outlook across the immediately adjacent Eden, Strathtyrum and Balgove golf courses.
The organisation, articulation and material quality of the Headquarters is designed to ground the building quietly yet confidently into this site. It draws influence from the familiar language of heavy sandstone masonry evident in so much of St Andrews, juxtaposed with a lighter touch that alludes to the pavilion forms traditionally found in the golfing landscape.

The HQ follows and reinforces an established site perimeter, continuing and emerging from a curving stone wall along its north-western edge that defines the boundary to the 18th green of the Strathtyrum Course. The building responds to the changing context around it, setting back along its south-western edge to present a new public frontage and landscaped entrance se...