building: photo © adrian welch sep 2006 with lumix camera
Former British Linen Bank, 1923
Architect: Walker Todd
Redevelopment as Bank Hotel: 1992
Architect: Rob Hunter
Developer: Kantel
Address: 1-3 South Bridge, Edinburgh
Contact: +44 (0)131 556 9940
Location: corner of South Bridge/Royal Mile, centre of Old Town
photo © adrian welch 230207 with lumix camera
South Bridge was originally designed by Robert Adam but executed by Kay, it is slightly down-at-heel but look up and you can see a variety of neoclassical facades and gable ends that somehow manage to talk to each other. The Bank Hotel forms the most northern of the South Bridge gables and is certainly the most expressive with an expressed portico and a solid rusticated base. It forms a ceremonial bookend to a thin but towering slab of Old Town buildings, a contrast to the rubble walls visible down its east side.
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