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DUNDEE DOORS OPEN For more information on the national Doors Open Days please contact: The Scottish Civic Trust, The Tobacco Merchants House, 42 Miller Street, Glasgow G1 1DT T 0141 221 1466 E [email protected] Scottish Charity No. SC012569 www.scottishcivictrust.org.uk DAYS PhotoMarathon Dundee Get into buildings! Dundee Institute of Architects’ PhotoMarathon Dundee - Sunday 17th September A fast based creative challenge that requires find us on facebook. Further details will be participants to take photographs on a set list released nearer to the time. This event is 16th-17th September 2017 of themes, in order, within a set time period part of the Royal Incorporation of Architects’ and submit them unedited for judging. The Festival of Architecture 2017. themes, loosely based on architecture and the built environment, will be released on the day and participants will need to think creatively and quickly to complete the challenge! FREE ENTRY Register your interest now by e-mailling [email protected] or This programme was sponsored and distributed by @dod_dundee Doors Open Days Dundee www.doorsopendays.org.uk Doors Open Days 2017 gives you Symbol Key free access to buildings you wouldn’t Toilets normally get into as well as special Toilets events at public buildings. The event (inc. disabled toilets) 5 celebrates architecture in all its Parking Nearby Disabled Access forms - from the very ancient to (contact venue for ultra-modern, well-loved to little- more information) known. So put the dates in your diary Refreshments and we will see you on the 16th & 17th! Baby Changing 4 6 7 4. Caird Hall: fruit and vegetables and staff to hear more about their Backstage Tour to promote a community unique roles. Drop in to our spirit amongst members. projection booth to discover City Square, Dundee, DD1 3BB Refreshments provided and more about cinema technology Sunday 17th 12noon and 2pm an opportunity to purchase and its development. Tour the (tour max - 25) produce at the end of the tour. Print Studio and find out how Booking Essential: angela. Our allotment site has been DCA supports artists to create doran@leisureandculture in existence since the 1940’s and present work. dundee.com or 01382 434111 when the need arose to grow Architect: Richard Murphy Step on the Stage where so your own for the war effort. Architects many stars have appeared. Originally farmland, the From Elton John, David Bowie, allotments have evolved over The Cure, Frank Sinatra, The the years to the present day 1 2 3 Beatles and the Rolling Stones where we now have 71 plots of 7. DC Thomson: to name but a few. See behind assorted size in use. the scenes of Dundee’s major Meadowside Doors 1. Art Bubble Studio: 2. Blackness Road 3. Broughty Castle Concert/Conference Venue. The Association manages Open Day the site and it is leased Children’s Creativity Fire Station Castle Approach, Broughty Come join us in the Tour 2 Albert Square, Workshop (Primary Age) Ferry, Dundee, DD5 2TF from Dundee City Council; Dundee, DD1 1DD Blackness Road, and get a close look at the our purpose is to promote Sunday 17th 1pm to 3pm Saturday 16th 10am and 2pm Unit 11, Douglas Court, Dundee, DD1 5PA magnificent Harrison and the growing of fruit and Non-bookable & Sunday 17th 10am and 2pm Milne’s East Wynd, Sunday 17th 11am to 4pm Harrison Organ. The Stage, vegetables, to manage the (max 50 on each tour) Dundee, DD1 5BY Non-bookable Built in 1496 on a rocky Marryat Hall, Gallery and site to promote a community Saturday 16th & Sunday 17th This is an opportunity to see promontory, Broughty Castle backstage. spirit amongst members and Booking Essential: Eventbrite 3pm (workshop – max 12) behind the scenes of one has faced many sieges and Architect: James Thomson, to protect and enhance the An opportunity to have a Booking Essential - of Dundee’s community fire battles. A rare chance to Dundee City Architect environment. guided tour of DC Thomson’s 07759 918524 stations. As well as getting explore the underground newly refurbished Dundee A creative, innovative the opportunity to see a ammunition magazine at Headquarters in the heart of workshop designed for all working fire station in action, Broughty Castle. Shells and the city centre. Nearly 600 young, creative artists of Fire-fighters will be on hand cartridges were once stored 5. City Road Allotments 6. DCA: On Show staff members who work here to feed the 4.7inch Quick in Newspapers, Magazines, primary age. There will be to provide fire safety advice, City Road, Dundee, DD2 2BL 152 Nethergate, Fire Coastal Defence guns on Digital Media and across a variety of skills on offer offer free Home Fire Safety (Entrance Gate is Opposite Dundee, DD1 4DY Visits and demonstrate some the ramparts above. the DC Thomson group of with the opportunity to Pitfour Street) Saturday 16th 10am to 12noon, of their firefighting and rescue companies are based in the explore your own imagination Visitors are advised that due Saturday 16th & Sunday Cinema, 11.30 Gallery (tour), equipment and skills. renovated open plan office and creativity! Art Bubble to the historic nature of the 17th 11am, 11.30am, 12noon, 12noon Print Studio (tour) celebrates uniqueness and building there is no disabled spaces. Sign up for a tour to 12.30pm, 1pm, 1.30pm Cinema – Non-bookable, innovation! access to the Castle or the see the transformation of the (tours – max 8) Gallery – Booking Essential Come and join us! artillery magazine. Children building, originally opened in Booking Preferred: Eventbrite (max 10) 01382 909900, Print must be accompanied by 1906 . Studio – Booking Essential an adult. Take a guided tour around the allotments! Our aim is (max 10) 01382 909900 to promote the growing of Meet creative and technical 9 12 14 8 10 11 13 16 15 8. District 10: Shipping Scrimgeour family, Constables The Society has an active 12. Dundee City Archives: between 10.30am and 2pm 15. Dundee Howff Tour Container Office Building of Dundee and Hereditary programme of exhibitions Doors Open Day on Saturday 16th July when Meadowside Gate, Standard Bearers of Scotland. and events and is now one we will be decorating the Seabraes Yard, 14 City Square, Dundee Howff In the 1680s it was home to of the longest-running art Church for Harvest. There will Dundee, DD1 4QB Dundee, DD1 3BY Saturday 16th & Sunday 17th John Graham of Claverhouse, associations in the country. be organ recitals during this 11am, 1pm & 3pm Sunday 17th 10am to 4pm Viscount of Dundee, known The Dundee Art Society Saturday 16th 10am to 4pm period. Tea and coffee will be (tours - max 30) Non-bookable to history as both “Bonnie welcomes Doors Open Days Non-bookable served in the Welcome Hall. Non-bookable District 10 is a highly Dundee” and “Bluidy Clavers”. patrons to meet artists at This is an opportunity for you The Church will also be open Members of Dundee Howff sustainable office building The historic building is now work and view the Society’s to view selected items from from 10.30am until 12.30pm Conservation Group will made of shipping containers a fully operational office for private art collection. the city’s archive collections on Sunday 17th July when we provide free tours of the Howff providing work space for Dundee City Council Services. which are housed in part will be celebrating Harvest telling the history of the site start-up creative industry As a result only the ground of the Caird Hall complex. Thanksgiving. including the 9 Incorporated companies. Commended floor will be opened on Doors These date from the 14th Trades of Dundee, explain the in the Scottish Design Awards Open Days. This includes the 11. Dundee Central Mosque century to the present day symbols on the old stones and the game Tetris wraps around Main Hall and other ground 6 Milne Street, Dundee, and include maps, plans and provide information in relation the outside of the building floor rooms. Aspects of the DD1 5BZ (Entrance from photographs, a selection 14. Dundee Heritage to the important burials within promoting the creative history of the building will be Brown Street) of which will be on display. Walk: Geddes Quadrangle the site. Tour participants and unpredictable illustrated by displays. In the Staff and members of the Saturday 16th & Sunday 17th to Albert Square will also be told about the organisations within. grounds of the castle stands Friends of Dundee City 11am to 4pm. Non-bookable current conservation work Come along and try our a 1744 Well Head (removed Archives will also be on hand Geddes Quadrangle, Drop in to see this marvellous of the group. District 10 cardboard model from the Overgate). Gardens to demonstrate the work University of Dundee building with a unique design; they are doing to make the (off Park Place) assembly competition by are all fully open. the first purpose built mosque records more accessible to Saturday 16th 11am cutting, folding and glue in North East Scotland the public. A number of talks (tour – max 15) assembling a container using traditional Scottish building in the fastest time. and workshops will also be Non-bookable 16. Dundee Museum of materials and energy efficient presented over the course of Glue, scissors and 10. Dundee Art Society Discover the city from the Transport: Guided Tours construction techniques. the day – further details will Elastoplast provided. standpoints of history, 10 Market Mews, Market 17 Roseangle, On each corner is a rounded be available nearer the time. architecture and commercial Street, Dundee, DD1 3LA Architect; AIM Design Dundee, DD1 4LP tower with a minaret and plain innovation with a walking Saturday 16th & Sunday 17th Saturday 16th 10am – 5pm, glass at the top.