FERNIE CASTLE
- Since 1353 -
The Fernie Castle project, which is being restored to its former glory, includes castle extensions, interior and auxiliary building renovations, including the overall landscaped gardens of the manor house, the manor entrance gates and the surrounding roads. The massive upgrade programme, which includes an Oriental-style garden, aims to create a unique artistic platform that deepens understanding between Eastern and Western cultures, promotes the transmission of traditional cultural skills and brings significant social and economic benefits to the local community.
The project has passed preliminary review by Fife Council and is entering the detailed planning stage for approval. They have expressed their pleasure and high expectations for the future of the project, thanks in large part to the creation of numerous jobs that will have a positive effect on the development of the local tourism industry. MDJM's project focuses on cultural and artistic operations and is positioned as a carrier of unique high-end service facilities that will greatly enhance the cultural appeal of the entire region and high-end service brands. The Company's main strategic objective is to select buildings with high historical and cultural value around the world, and to blend traditional local and traditional Eastern cultures with high-quality cultural and artistic content as the cornerstone of its operations.
To enhance the project's cultural and commercial value, MDJM is currently gathering a professional consulting team. This team will include oriental historians, landscape architects, architects, and experts in art and aesthetics from around the world. Their wisdom and insights are poised to transform the oriental garden into a prominent research hub for classical oriental gardens and architecture, leveraging their expertise to shape the project's future success.
The fusion of an oriental style garden with a centuries-old castle is a unique combination almost unheard of on a global scale and one that will almost certainly attract the attention of people from all walks of life. The platform's unprecedented integration of Eastern and Western classical arts and culture with its accessibility to people in the United Kingdom, Europe, and even tourists from as far as Asia, will create massive commercial value by sparking the imaginations of people who have never seen or heard of a spectacle similar to this in the traditional cultural tourism space.
Within five years, MDJM aims to increase in-depth cooperation between top influential celebrities from many fields such as literature, music and drama, visual arts, sculpture art, traditional craftsmen, among others from around the world to launch a range of products with unique aesthetic value. Exhibitions, forums, cultural and artistic commodity trading, customized cultural tourism, education and training, and more, will also be launched. The planned oriental garden, with an overall area of approximately 10,000 square meters, will feature objects commonly sought after by the Eastern and Western nobility of the time.
Fernie Castle and its oriental garden will be utilized as an art platform for salon forum exchanges, exhibitions, auctions and other activities while digital exhibitions of artworks, dialogue salons, and other exchanges will be held online simultaneously. The art platform will accelerate exchanges between Eastern and Western artists and introduce the ancient cultural heritage of the East to the United Kingdom and Europe while respecting the protection of local culture.
Business partner
Simpson & Brown LLP
Founded in 1977 as an architectural practice, Simpson & Brown has evolved into a multidisciplinary firm that now also provides archaeology, architectural history, heritage consulting and master planning services.
During this time, the firm has not only been responsible for the conservation of some of the UK's most important historic buildings, but has also developed a reputation for designing award-winning modern buildings. We aim to improve the quality of the built environment through scholarly conservation work and polite background design that is true to its time and place. While respecting and acknowledging the past, our buildings strive to meet the challenges of the future, especially when it comes to sustainable design. We work in the UK and beyond.
Simpson & Brown also operates an Archaeology division - Addyman Archaeology - which has extensive experience and expertise in construction and field work, historical building analysis and specialist survey techniques. Both Simpson & Brown LLP and Adyman Archaeology are supported by a dedicated architectural history team that specializes in research and consulting on historic buildings, including preparing conservation plans and heritage assessments.
The firm also has extensive experience in preparing feasibility studies, program evaluations, funding requests, condition assessments, legal and expert witness reports, and master plans.
Suzhou Xiangshan Workshop construction investment development Co., LTD
Suzhou Xiangshan Workshop Construction Investment and Development Co., LTD., founded in 2006, is the responsible unit for the protection of the national intangible cultural heritage project "Xiangshan Traditional Building Construction Skills" recognized by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. The company has established the "Fragrant Hill Workshop Garden Ancient Architecture Cultural Industry Base" in Xukou Town, Wuzhong District, Suzhou, the hometown of Xiangshan Gang skills, and is responsible for the operation and management of the base. It has won many honorary titles such as "Suzhou Characteristic Industrial Base", "Suzhou Characteristic Public Service Platform", "Suzhou Intangible Cultural Heritage Outstanding Protection Demonstration Base", "Chinese Cultural Heritage Protection and Inheritance Model Unit", "Chinese National Excellent Architectural construction skills Inheritance Site", and "the first batch of Key Cultural Units in Suzhou".
The company has initiated the establishment of "Suzhou Xiangshan Bang Construction Association", "Suzhou Xiangshan Vocational Training School", "Suzhou Xiangshan Li Art Museum", "Wood Structure New Materials Research and Development Center", "Xiangshan Bang Master Studio", "International Art community" and other institutions, training hundreds of technical talents for Xiangshan Bang ancient construction enterprises. He edited and published more than 20 technical books on ancient landscape architecture, more than 100 research papers and nearly 60 issues of academic journals, which were distributed throughout the country.
After more than 10 years of operation and development, the "Fragrant Hill Workshop" has basically completed construction, and the service projects of commerce, culture and entertainment are relatively perfect. The base has introduced a number of core enterprises of Suzhou ancient architecture to enter and operate, forming a cultural industry base integrating the functions of research and development, production, marketing, expo and cultural tourism of ancient garden architecture. Fully inherit and protect the "Xiangshan traditional building construction skills", which has become the world's intangible cultural heritage.
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