With The Cube, you couldn’t be more central. It’s in the very heart of the capital, where worldleading financial institutions like Lloyds Banking Group, The Royal Bank of Scotland, Standard Life, Citigroup and Baillie Gifford exist alongside businesses from the 21st Century sectors including Microsoft, Rockstar, Dell and IBM.The Cube sits nearby designer boutiques, restaurants, department stores, coffee shops, sandwich bars and fine watering holes.Stroll to Harvey Nichols. Take in a film at the Omni Centre, the ballet at the Playhouse, or pilates at Virgin Active. Spend a night at The Balmoral, savour the cuisine at Number One. It’s all here.
A historical, cultured city with excellent leisure facilities, quality schools and a strong residential property sector. It’s no surprise that Edinburgh is frequently voted the best city in the UK in which to live and work.With a population of 460,000, risingto 800,000 within the Lothian region, Edinburgh has a robust economy. The 7th largest metropolitan area in the UK, it has a similar demographic profile to London.
Location
Air: From Edinburgh Airport, thirty carriers fly to over 85 different destinations. Many UK airports are served, as are Amsterdam, Barcelona, Brussels, Dublin, Frankfurt, Geneva, Madrid, Milan, New York, Paris and Zurich.
Trains: Waverley Station is a two minute walk from The Cube and provides immediate access to the East Coast Main Line and all points north and south. Trains leave hourly for London at peak times, taking four hours and twenty minutes. Glasgow is a fifty minute journey, with trains departing every quarter of an hour during the business day.
Car: Immediately adjacent to The Cube are hundreds of car parking spaces, located at St James Centre (567 spaces) and Greenside Place (1050 spaces). In addition, The Cube has 13 dedicated car parking spaces in the basement.
By bike: More and more people are cycling to work, helped by cycle-to-work schemes and the sheer pleasure of arriving at your desk energised. The Cube has 36 covered bicycle spaces, showers and drying facilities located in the basement.
On foot: Edinburgh is one of the best cities in the world in which to walk. In fact one in five of the population walks to work.
Bus: Edinburgh has a first class bus service, with buses stopping less than a minute’s walk from The Cube. St Andrew Square Bus Station is a seven minute walk away.
Trams: Due for completion in 2011, a tram will stop in close proximity to The Cube, giving direct access to Haymarket, Edinburgh Airport, Leith and beyond.
Specification
Building Specification
• Extensive glazed façade to Leith Street incorporating high quality sandstone and granite
• Dramatic five-storey atrium
• Feature cantilevered office pod
• Fully glazed revolving entrance door
• Two 13 person passenger lifts
• Feature lighting in reception and lobby areas
• Contemporary male, female and disabled toilets on every office level
• Integrated systems of moveable full-height screens
• Environmental systems to meet best practice standards set out in
BCO Guide 2005
• Showers with changing areas at basement level
• 24 hour access
• Zoned controls for lighting and heating
• Standby generator
• Low E Glazing throughout
• Secure basement car park, providing 13 car parking spaces and 36 secure bike racks.
Office Specification
• Minimal internal columns resulting in efficient open plan floor space
• Exceptional natural light
• Generous floor to ceiling height of at least 2.75m (2.9m at ground and first floor)
• Fully recessed lights to provide 350
- 500 lux to CIBSE LG7 Standards at display screen areas
• High quality suspended metal tile ceiling
• High quality raised access metal floor
• Floor loading 4 + 1 kN/m2
• 4 pipe fan-coil air conditioning system
• A Building Energy Management System (BEMS) to control the mechanical services
• 4,736 sq.ft of external roof terraces on second, fourth and fifth floors.