2008 AWARDS
Awards - Leisure + Retail
Awards - Sustainability
Page\Park
Eden Court Theatre, Inverness
The Eden Court Theatre in Inverness has been refurbished and extended to provide for a broader range of cultural activities including a second theatre, 2 cinemas, 2 studios, new offices and dressing room accommodation, including the refurbishment of the existing theatre to provide DDA compliance and new 'front of house' facilities. In what seems like an impossible task, Page\Park have managed to not only restore two Grade 'A' listed buildings, the 1876 Bishops Palace and the 1976 Law Dunbar Naismith theatre but by constructing a third element, mesh the functions all three together to provide a stunning series of foyer spaces.
The Judges were impressed by the sheer bravura of the project. Whilst managing to maintain the integrity of the parts externally, the Architects have defined through a series of dramatic forms, a new skyline for a much loved institution which will undoubtedly continue to play a pivotal role in the cultural life of the Highlands.
