A top Scottish award for architecture has been made to Dance Base in Edinburgh?s historic Grassmarket.
Designed by Malcolm Fraser Architects, Dance Base sits just below Edinburgh Castle in a World Heritage Site and has been created to involve existing buildings, new build and the natural landscape. It was funded with £5m Scottish Arts Council (SAC) Lottery plus grants from City of Edinburgh Council and the Edinburgh World Heritage Trust and is Scotland?s National Centre for Dance, providing four state-of-the-art dance studios. The £25,000 prize by the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland recognises it as the ?Best Building in Scotland?, and two other SAC-funded buildings, Stirling Tollbooth and the new Byre Theatre in St Andrews, were also short-listed. Dance Base has subsequently been nominated for the prestigious Stirling Prize.