A project to generate interest, interaction and regeneration at Reform Street and its link to the waterfront in Dundee.
Reform Street in Dundee was once one of Scotland’s premier civic precincts, hosting a range of high-end retail, commercial and banking businesses behind its doors. In recent years, as with many city high streets and shopping precincts, the headline occupancy rate and the quality of the retail offer that remains there has diminished. Reform Reformed attempts to revitalise Reform Street with transformative design input, offering to make the street a renewed hub of modern and creative business and cultural activity in the heart of Dundee city centre.
Borne from a public realm lighting concept sketched by our own Stephen Barty in late 2015, further sketches developed and Stephen presented the project concept to design peers. Colin Ross, a talented and experienced architect and artist based in Edinburgh, expressed his own enthusiasm and interest in the scheme. Colin quickly offered to help expand the project scope to include proposals for the wider public realm within Reform St and the natural link down to the Dundee Waterfront development.
The project was presented to potential stakeholders but was never implemented, although the eventual pedestrianised streetscape at Union Street is in a similar vein to Colin’s original concept.
