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Basil Spence Housing, Edinburgh : Architecture Information
Canongate Housing 79-121 Canongate, Edinburgh, Scotland 1966-68 Sir Basil Spence, Glover & Ferguson Private Housing Scottish vernacular meets modernism: flats in white-grey render, concrete, 'rubble' and dressed stone with restrained elements reminiscent of Mackintosh, though concrete ageing badly. Leitmotif is the shallow concrete vaulting hinting at Le Corbusier's later buildings. The buildings have shallow sloping roofs running east-west thus the facades could read as hugely wide gable ends, unlike anything else on the Royal Mile and - apart from ground level punctuation - not exactly contextual. The blocks part at the Canongate Manse which is marooned but beautifully set back from the street like the Canongate Kirk a little further up the Royal Mile. Edinburgh Restaurants Basil Spence Edinburgh Old Town Architecture Tour Scottish Parliament Hotel Missoni Edinburgh : back to index Comments / photos for the Basil Spence Canongate Housing Edinburgh Architecture page welcome: info@edinburgharchitecture.co.uk Basil Spence Housing Building : page - adrian welch / isabelle lomholt