Income at Edinburgh concert hall architect jumps 17%

David Chipperfield shrugged off the effects of the pandemic seeing income rise last year and the firm return to the black.

In accounts filed at Companies House, the architect, which is behind a new concert hall in Edinburgh, said revenue was up 17% to £9.7m with pre-tax profit coming in at £273,000 from a £546,000 loss last time.

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Chipperfield’s revised scheme for the Edinburgh concert hall

It added the average number of employees at the business in 2020 was 84, up from the previous year’s figure of 79.

Last month, Chipperfield and Reiach & Hall submitted scaled-back plans for the Scottish capital’s first purpose-built concert hall for 100 years.

The £75m Dunard Centre project, which is due to be built by Sir Robert McAlpine, was nearly derailed by a legal challenge by the developers of the £850m St James Centre, a neighbouring shopping centre and hotel complex which objected to the Dunard Centre’s height and massing.

But last year the two schemes reached an agreement which involved a redesign.

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