STUDIO DUB REVEALS PLANS FOR WOMERSLEY BOILER HOUSE

摘要

Edinburgh-based Studio DuB has applied for permission to convert Peter Womersley's recently-listed Dingleton boiler house in Melrose, Scotland, into flats. The boiler house was built by the Scottish Modernist in 1977 to power a psychiatric unit at the former Dingleton Hospital. Despite being derelict since 2001, it recently became the fourth Womersley building to be listed by Historic Scotland in less than a year (AJ online 20.07.07). Now Studio DuB has submitted plans to Scottish Borders Council for five apartments within the Brutalist concrete block. According to practice principal Gordon Duffy, the building's striking chimney could be used 'as a flue for multi-fuel stoves in the proposed residential units'.