2025
This dissertation investigates how dwelling continues under conditions of transience, where permanence can no longer be counted on as a stable condition of domestic life.
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2025
The New College of Edinburgh occupies one of the city’s most symbolically charged sites. Commissioned by the newly formed Free Church of Scotland in the wake of the Disruption of 1843, the building was intended to articulate the intellectual ambition of the new ecclesiastical order.
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2025
This course ran alongside a practice period providing a structured method to reflect on professional contexts I was involved with at the time. It helped to identify key themes in practice.
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Collaborators: Xander Froggatt, Andrea Lumina, Cameron Paul
2024
Taking a study of the Pentland Hills, its history, current conditions and potentialities as a main priority. Conducting an investigation on the site conditions in order to identify our interests and connect them with the needs and aspirations of the local community.
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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
Assisting the design of various residential projects regional to Nova Scotia, working closely with Brian Mackay-Lyons.
Scottish Opera
Carpenter & Draughtsman
2025
Constructing and designing detail drawings for the set of Trial by Jury and Madame Butterfly.
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