Calton Road, Edinburgh, Buildings, Photos, Development, Architects, Images

Calton Road, Edinburgh : Architecture Information + Images

Whitefoord House, Whitehorse Close, Buchanan Court + Canongate

Calton Road Buildings Photos Mar 2007 by Adrian Welch: pictures © Adrian Welch Latest Calton Road building, photos by Adrian Welch Sep 2007 picture © Adrian Welch 32 Calton Road Planning application by gm+ad architects for 32 Calton Road: decision continued 100506 Mixed development incl. commercial & student accommodation for LDC (Holdings) Plc + Sundial Properties (Gilmerton) Ltd. On cleared corner site of Calton Road and Lochend Close, adj. Studio 24 just east of Calton Gate Previously subject to proposals by Malcolm Fraser Architects Calton Gate No week goes by in recent months without letters in the Press re Mountgrange's development: Calton Gate Calton Road runs parallel with the Royal Mile to the south: two Old Town Housing Association blocks picking up references to former Royal High School (up above): pictures © Adrian Welch Recent housing between Canongate Kirk and former New St Bus Station - images: pictures © Adrian Welch Whitefoord House 1769 Robert Mylne picture © Adrian Welch Calton Road building Whitefoord House Refurbishment - Mottram Patrick Architects picture © Adrian Welch Whitehorse Close - Refurbishment, 31 Canongate 1964 Sir Frank Mears & Partners picture © Adrian Welch Calton Road housing Lochend Close housing: picture © Adrian Welch

School, Canongate

picture © Adrian Welch
Victorian squat school opposite Sir Basil Spence's housing, still in use as a Primary and Nursery to the west.


picture © Adrian Welch
View west up Canongate with school to immediate left and Richard Murphy Architects' Canongate housing beyond again on the left.

79-121 Canongate - housing
1968
Basil Spence, Glover & Ferguson

picture © Adrian Welch
Private Housing - Scottish vernacular meets modernism: flats in white render and dressed stone with restrained elements reminiscent of Rennie Mackintosh, though concrete ageing badly: Canongate housing



Scottish Parliament

Modern Houses
Scottish Housing
Edinburgh Restaurants
Palace of Holyroodhouse

Context for the above buildings: Royal Mile

The first EAA Silver Medal awarded in 1984, was won by Andrew Doolan /
Kantel for St Anne’s Brewery Conversion to Flats, Calton Road, Edinburgh

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