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CDA's Top Moments of 2024 | Team CDA CDA is spending December reflecting on 2024 and highlighting some of our top moments from the year! Our final post of 2024 can only focus on one highlight - our team! In 2024 the entire team have worked extremely hard and deserve to be celebrated. Our office closes on 24th December and we will reopen on 6th January. We hope everyone has a great break and we look forward to seeing you all in 2025. Merry Christmas! #CDA

CDA's Top Moments of 2024 | CDA Charity of the Year CDA is spending December reflecting on 2024 and highlighting some of our top moments from the year! This year we have been fortunate to support two charities - Fighting Against Cancer Edinburgh (FACE) and Rock Trust. Each summer we vote for a new charity and take part in various fundraising throughout the year including bake sales, marathons and bridge abseils to name a few! The Rock Trust aims to end youth homelessness in Scotland by ensuring that every young person has access to expert youth specific services to assist them to avoid, survive and move on from homelessness. The trust advises, educates and supports young people to enable them to build the personal skills and resources required to make a positive and healthy transition to adulthood. To help support this local charity, Team CDA wore their Christmas jumpers and donated gift in kind essential items which will support young people and help them living independently for the first time. We're looking forward to more fundraising in 2025! #CDA #charity #FACE #Rocktrust

New Waverley, Edinburgh | Student Accommodation It's great to be working with Vita Group and McAleer & Rushe on Vita Student's new development at New Waverley. CDA has been involved with this site since the original masterplan work c. 20 years ago so it is wonderful to see it finally getting out the ground! Ian Black Consulting Ltd Caldwell Consulting Engineers LTD re-form Landscape Architecture Ltd Adnitt Acoustics Jensen Hughes Kirk and Marsh Ltd

CDA's Top Moments of 2024 | The McEwan Phase 2 | On Site CDA is spending December reflecting on 2024 and highlighting some of our top moments from the year! Work has been progressing quickly all year on the The McEwan Phase 2 with Moda and Robertson Group and its great to see the scaffolding come down as we near completion! With all the new developments under construction in the Fountainbridge area, we’re delighted to be a part of the changing street scape and also providing new public realm with the new square as part of the works. Following the completion of Phase 1 which provided 337 BTR apartments, Phase 2 completes the site with an additional 139 apartments and commercial units onto Dundee Street. The McEwan was also highly commended for the Saltire Society Housing Design Awards 2023. We're looking forward to seeing the final completion early 2025! CDA Team Catriona Gray Jennifer Shewan Michael Dargo #CDA #architecture #residential #BTR #Moda #edinburgh #scotland #buildtorent

CDA's Top Moments of 2024 | Ocean Point 2 | Planning consented CDA is spending December reflecting on 2024 and highlighting some of our top moments from the year! In May we were delighted our project at Ocean Point 2 Edinburgh gained planning consent. The mixed-use scheme produced for S Harrison Development Ltd. consists of two independent buildings: a 112 bed BTR block comprising a mix of studio, one-bed, two-bed and three-bed apartments and a separate 404 bed PBSA block comprising a mix of studio and cluster accommodation. Mixed-use commercial co-working amenity spaces will be provided for both buildings along with extensive high-quality private and public landscaping. OP2 helps complete the ongoing transformation of Leith’s waterfront through the delivery of a vibrant and sustainable neighbourhood. New routes through the site will link the recently extended Edinburgh Tramline to a new waterfront promenade. Careful consideration was given to daylighting and microclimate requirements whilst maintaining the privacy of both residents within the new buildings and surrounding developments. The buildings complement each other through their vertical language, scale and form, reading as part of a whole for the site but are identified separately through contrasting materiality. CDA Team: Catriona Gray David Hannah #CDA #Edinburgh #architecture #Mixeduse

CDA's Top Moments of 2024 | Old Brewery, Bristol | On Site CDA is spending December reflecting on 2024 and highlighting some of our top moments from the year! One of our key projects on site for 2024 is our mixed use development, Old Brewery, Bristol with McLaughlin & Harvey Ltd. The project is delivering 107 affordable housing apartments for Abri Group with 98 being shared ownership and 9 for social rent. Additionally the scheme will include seven commercial units providing new services for the local community. The project is close to completion and we're looking forward to the first residents moving in during 2025! CDA Team Craig Masson Selina Haggerty Fraser Luke #CDA #architecture #mixeduse #Bristol

CDA's Top Moments of 2024 | The Bonnie, Glasgow | On Site CDA is spending December reflecting on 2024 and highlighting some of our top moments from the year! This year we have enjoyed seeing our new PBSA project at The Bonnie, Glasgow progress on site for The Parklane Group. CDA became involved in the project from Stage 5 working with Parklane to deliver the project for the September 2025 intake. Located in the former Lorne hotel on Sauchiehall Street in Finnieston, the project involves a significant refurbishment of both the listed building and 1960s building to create 147 studios with a large extent of amenity located on the ground and lower ground floors. We're looking forward to seeing the first students take residence next year! CDA Team Jennifer Shewan Michael Jenkins Sylvia Horsburgh Laura Krūmiņa Amina Hafeez #CDA #PBSA #Glasgow #architecture

CDA's Top Moments of 2024 | East Newington Place, Edinburgh | On Site CDA is spending December reflecting on 2024 and highlighting some of our top moments from the year! In July this year we saw our student accommodation project at East Newington Place start on site with Thomas Johnstone Ltd. Working for S Harrison Developments Ltd, the tight site is landlocked on three sides and constrained on two by existing walls, one of which is B listed boundary wall to Newington Old Burial Ground. The proposed 4-storey building redevelops within the footprint of the existing garages to provide new student residential accommodation comprising of 65 studio apartments and associated amenity space. CDA Team Selina Haggerty Andrew Gass Neil Mair Ece K. #CDA #PBSA #Edinburgh #Glasgow #architecture

CDA's Top Moments of 2024 | Christmas Coffee Morning CDA is spending December reflecting on 2024 and highlighting some of our top moments from the year! A huge thank you to all those who attended our Christmas coffee morning this week. It was great to see so many familiar faces and enjoy a coffee and mince pie in the run up to the festive season. We were also raising funds for the Rock Trust by selling our CDA designed Christmas cards which were a sell out. Over 2024 we have held numerous events across our Edinburgh and Glasgow offices. Situated in Moray Place, Edinburgh and Blythswood Square, Glasgow we are fortunate to have brilliant buildings for both work and entertaining and always happy to have visitors! We're also looking forward to today with our Christmas lunch bringing together both offices again, hopefully there will be a Christmas jumper or two! #CDA #Edinburgh #Glasgow

CDA's Top Moments of 2024 | New Waverley, Edinburgh | On site CDA is spending December reflecting on 2024 and highlighting some of our top moments from the year! 2024 was a busy year for our New Waverley project for Vita Group with it gaining planning early this year and is now on site with McAleer & Rushe. The project creates a 267 bed Purpose Built Student Accommodation (PBSA), affordable housing and commercial/ community floorspace in Edinburgh city centre. As the final element of the larger New Waverley regeneration development, the site will form part of the transformation to create a vibrant and thriving area. The site benefits from a previous planning permission for a residential development however the new alternative proposal constitutes a broader mix of uses within the New Waverley development, as envisioned by the Caltongate Masterplan. The site sits within the Old Town conservation area which the character appraisal describes the material palette as limited, mainly stone and late, providing a sense of unity. The character appraisal also notes the use of materials in a modern and creative way to create interest and richness of texture. The proposed limited materials palette looks to take recognition of the immediate context and the character appraisal of the conservation area. The high-quality palette comprises of sandstone, white render, and zinc. Cues are taken from the immediate context of New Square and Calton road as shown below. We're looking forward to seeing out project develop over the next year. CDA Team Catriona Gray Philip Kingan Jamie Sansbury Michael Dargo Maria Zelebilo Nathan Retallick #CDA #PBSA #Edinburgh #studentaccommodation