3DReid have completed a new Health & Wellbeing Centre for the Thistle Foundation - a charitable organization who offer support to those with disabilities, enabling them to live independent lives, in their own homes.

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Architects: 3DReid

Location: Edinburgh, UK

Area: 1700.0 sqm

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Cadzow-Pelosi

Architect / Interior Design:: 3DReid?

Contractor: CCG Scotland

Structural Engineer: Goodson Associates?

Services Engineeer: DSSR

Quantity Surveyor/Project Manager: Arcadis?

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From the architect. 3DReid have completed a new Health & Wellbeing Centre for the Thistle Foundation - a charitable organization who offer support to those with disabilities, enabling them to live independent lives, in their own homes.
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The new facility is located at the heart of the original Thistle Foundation development, now a designated Conservation Area. A philanthropic gesture, put in place at the end of the Second World War, the original scheme comprised 103 houses, in a model village-esque arrangement, with the Arts & Crafts-style Robin Chapel, at its heart (both now Listed developments). Pioneering at the time, the scheme was one of the first to be designed to cater for t...