2026
Fish are landed, lifted, processed, salted, dried, packed, stored, and exported. Workers rest, repair, gather. Tides rise below. Timber as ordered system, harbour as working community, structure as enduring skeleton, occupation as living flesh.
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2026
The network of sheds extends Monks’ Walk into a continuous industrial landscape. Timber moves through a sequence of spaces that operate as both processing infrastructure and adaptable work environments. The Ridge operates within this system.
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2025
Through case studies and a variety of lenses (such as historical, material, feminist, environmental, etc.), investigating the architectural detail as a locus for design intelligence, rigour and imagination.
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Collaborators: Xander Froggatt, Andrea Lumina, Cameron Paul
2024
Not the Highlands, neither the Lowlands of Scotland, are the Pentlands, this dense patchwork of territorial samples literally at the doorstep of Edinburgh, the test site for future habitation in the country’s side.
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2024
A sloped garden and playground, bridging the gap between Rue de l’Eemitage & Rue de Cascades. I chose the site due to the challenges imposed when working within a sloped context particularly through the modelling of context and the leading of people upwards and downwards between both streets.
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2023
Positioned off the tip of the Meadows - a secluded, grafitti covered space of ‘grunge’ for which few pass through aside from inhabitants of the site. A site of spanning history, locked in stone.
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Elliott Osmond
elliottosmond@icloud.com
+44 7484638500
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elliottosmond@icloud.com
+44 7484638500
YouTube
CV
I am a Scottish-Canadian architecture graduate from the University of Edinburgh (RIBA Part 1), with a particular interest in the relationship between place and inhabitation. Growing up in Scotland with a longstanding connection to Nova Scotia has shaped my understanding of how architecture emerges from cultural and natural contexts.
My experience working with Brian Mackay-Lyons in Lunenburg, alongside my final year research and design work, has strengthened my interest in timber construction, craft, and the relationship between drawing and built form. I am particularly interested in architecture that is rooted in its setting and developed through careful consideration of structure and human experience.
My experience working with Brian Mackay-Lyons in Lunenburg, alongside my final year research and design work, has strengthened my interest in timber construction, craft, and the relationship between drawing and built form. I am particularly interested in architecture that is rooted in its setting and developed through careful consideration of structure and human experience.
First Class
University of Edinburgh 2022-2026
Advanced Higher Mathematics: A
Scottish Highers: 8As, including Graphic Communication and Geography.
2021-2022
Intern Architect
2025
Scottish Opera
Carpenter & Draughtsman
2025
Founding Principal, MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects
Suite 130, 1715 Lower Water St.
NS, Canada, B3J 0J4
bml@mlsarchitects.ca
Niall Black
Head of Production, Scottish Opera
40 Edington Street
Glasgow, G2 4PT
Niall.Black@scottishopera.org.uk
Photoshop
InDesign
Premiere Pro
AutoCAD
Rhinoceros 3D
Grasshopper
Twinmotion
Operational knowledge of:
Illustrator
After Effects
Sketchup
Revit
V-Ray/Corona
2025
School Prize for Graphic Communication
2022
Architecture Dissertation
2026