Chipperfield sent back to drawing board for £45m Edinburgh concert hall

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Scheme set for full redesign following legal row

David Chipperfield Architects will be forced to overhaul its plans for a £45m concert hall in Edinburgh.

Plans for a new city centre concert hall in the Scottish capital are back on track after Impact Scotland, the developer of the concert hall, and the firm behind the nearby Edinburgh St James site, Nuveen Real Estate, reached an agreed way forward to work together.

Nuveen Real Estate, which made several attempts to block the scheme, made an application for a judicial review of the council’s decision to grant planning last summer. It objected to the concert hall’s height, scale and massing.

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