UK Holidays - Edinburgh: A Guide to Recent Architecture

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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 720.94134 EAN: 9781841660660 ISBN: 1841660663 Label: Ellipsis Arts Manufacturer: Ellipsis Arts Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: 2001-09 Publisher: Ellipsis Arts Studio: Ellipsis Arts
Editorial Reviews: It would be easy to assume that the large amount of building works and new construction in Edinburgh is a consequence of the siting of the new Scottish seat of government, tagged as a 'pretendy Parliament' by Scottish stage personality Billy Connolly. But factors more mundane than the urgings of the 'democratic spirit' can explain this spate of new building: in particular Edinburgh's position as the fourth biggest financial centre in Europe; the incidence of developer rather than open competitions; the invitation extended to the American modernist architect Richard Meier to come up with a masterplan for the design of the Edinburgh Park business centre; and Edinburgh's 1970s love-affair with the motor-car, the resultant fractured city and early new-millennium ambivalence about private/public transport. Around 100 entries in this book give a framework for understanding what all this means for Edinburgh's built environment and for reading recent architectural design in the city.