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Tattoo with a view? Plans for new studio on NINTH FLOOR of Aberdeen Harbour tower block

The plans for Union Point come after the new owners brought it back to life.

The Aberdeen Harbour tattoo studio would open at Union Point.
The Aberdeen Harbour tattoo studio would open at Union Point. Image: Kenny Elrick/DC Thomson

A ninth-floor office suite at an Aberdeen Harbour office block could be given a makeover as a new tattoo studio.

Tattooist Hanna Kasztelan has lodged plans with Aberdeen City Council seeking permission to change the use of some space at Union Point, on Blakie’s Quay.

It comes as owners Standard Real Estate have taken the block from strength to strength since buying it for just £25,000 in the midst of the downturn in 2016.

And perhaps the body art plans are appropriate, as Union Point itself was adorned with a massive Nuart mural this year…

The mural being painted on the side of the building which could soon be home to an Aberdeen Harbour tattoo studio
People could soon be getting inked up in the building. Image: Kenny Elrick/DC Thomson

So what are the new plans for Aberdeen Harbour tattoo studio?

Miss Kasztelan currently works at a studio in the Galleria on Langstane Place.

New blueprints for Union Point show how suite five on the ninth floor would be altered.

It is listed on Standard Real Estate’s website as “available immediately”, at £132 per week.

The mural on the outside the building, the Aberdeen Harbour tattoo studio would be around eye level
The ninth floor is about level with the eyes of this character painted onto the side of the Aberdeen Harbour building. Image: Kenny Elrick/DC Thomson

Her plans are not the first of their kind when it comes to making novel use of unwanted Aberdeen office space.

Amid dwindling demand in the city’s west end, permission was granted to transform an old workplace at the historic former church at 6 Carden Place into a tattoo studio earlier this year.

The view from the top floor of Union Point.
The view from the top floor of Union Point. Image: Frame.

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And there is already a beautician operating elsewhere in a former Union Point office.

Meanwhile, building owners Standard Real Estate are behind attempts to rejuvenate Caledonian House in Aberdeen city centre.

They are spending £5 million renovating the Union Street block. 

You can see the plans here.


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