Dunfermline Museum Competition, Scotland, Winner, Architects, Images
Dunfermline Museum & Library Competition
RIAS Invited Contest – Fife Council
13 Jul 2007
Dunfermline Museum & Library
RIAS Invited Competition
1st: Richard Murphy
2nd: Make (unofficial, reported)
Dunfermline Museum : Fife Council PR
Shortlist: Malcolm Fraser, Gareth Hoskins, Make, Richard Murphy, Reiach & Hall, PagePark
Organisers: The Dunfermline Museum and Library Competition was advertised in 2006 and coordinated by the RIAS & Fife Council
Site: adj. Dunfermline Abbey & first Carnegie Library, central Dunfermline, west Fife
Notes of interest: 50
Formal submissions: 11
Shortlisted architects: 6
Process: Shortlisted practices have 12 weeks to produce designs, costs, etc.
Independent Assessor: Sandy Wright, Wright & Wright Architects
Dunfermline Gallery Competition Submission deadline : 26 Apr 2007
Exhibition of Dunfermline Competition entries from the six architects
Carnegie Library, Dunfermline
until 23 Jun
Dunfermline Competition – winning architect: Richard Murphy
RIAS Design Contest Entrants:
Richard Murphy
Location: Dunfermline, Scotland, north western Europe
Dunfermline Buildings
Carnegie Museum and Arts Centre Dunfermline Building
Design: Richard Murphy Architects
photo from architects
Carnegie Primary School Dunfermline Building
Design: Archial
picture © Keith Hunter Photography
Carnegie UK Trust Dunfermline Building
Design: Page Park Architects
Lindburn Health Centre Dunfermline Building
Design: JM Architects
Pittencrieff Park Pavilion in Dunfermline
Design: ICOSIS Architects
Carnegie College Dunfermline Building
Design: RMJM architects
Dunfermline
Dunfermline is a town and former Royal Burgh, and parish, in Fife, Scotland, on high ground 3 miles (5 km) from the northern shore of the Firth of Forth. The town recorded a population of 50,380 in 2012, making it the most populous locality in Fife and the 11th most populous in Scotland.
The Category A listed Dunfermline Abbey on the Kirkgate is one of the best examples of Scoto-Norman monastic architecture. The Abbey, built between 1128 and 1150 under David I, was a reconstruction of the Benedictine chapel dedicated to the Holy Trinity.
The Abbey parish church, designed by the architect William Burn, was built between 1818 and 1821. The Category A listed Guildhall on the High Street was erected in 1807 by the guilds of the local merchants who were ambitious for Dunfermline to become the county town of Fife.
To the north of the abbey, on the corner of Maygate and Abbot Street, is the Category A listed Abbot House. This is the oldest secular building still standing in the town.
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