A hotel development at 10 Picardy Place, previously a Hertz car rental office, has been granted planning permission for a 51 bed hotel .
Hackland + Dore Architects said the hotel will rescue and repurpose the Category B listed Georgian terrace building which sits in the city’s Old and New Town World Heritage Site.
The practice said, “The conversion and extension address a building that suffered from extensive brutal alteration to form a reinforced parking garage for a car hire company.
“The proposal alters the non-original concrete frame to introduce an open inner courtyard which allows natural light to penetrate to all floors down to the lower ground level, a reference towards the former rear garden that once served the main townhouse.
“Rooms wrap around this new source of natural light at the heart of the building; a basement area to the front is reinstated along with a contemporary ground floor entrance and the Georgian façade is to be fully restored.”
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