Gareth Hoskins Architects have been appointed by the National Museums of Scotland to develop a 10 year masterplan for the Museum of Flight and provide a new world class home for Concorde.

Located at East Fortune Airfield, south east of Edinburgh, the 50 acre site for the Museum of Flight is recognised as the best preserved World War Two airfield in Britain and is a scheduled Ancient Monument. It was from this airfield in 1919, that the ‘R34 airship’ took off on it’s record breaking, first east-west, transatlantic crossing to America. Drawing parallels with Concorde, the collection also includes a ‘de Havilland Comet’, the first jet-powered aircraft to take paying customers across the Atlantic at a time when air travel was only for the elite. The arrival of Concorde, which was recently voted best British design icon, has seen visitor numbers at the Museum rise and a shortlisting for Britain’s biggest art award, the £100,000 Gulbenkian prize. www.nms.ac.uk.