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Location: perpendicular to Royal Mile, centre of Old Town 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. photo © adrian welch 230207 with lumix camera Here's a quote by Robert Louis Stevenson: "Social inequality is nowhere more ostentatious than at Edinburgh...to look over the South Bridge and see the Cowgate below full of crying hawkers, is to view one rank of society from another in the twinkling of an eye". photo © adrian welch 230207 with lumix camera Here's a quote by architect and tutor Ed Hollis: "South Bridge, (for it is he) is a viaduct of 19 arches, finished in 1788 to the design of an architect whose name, so far as we know, is disputed. So it’s a Georgian bridge with buildings running along the sides. Or it’s a Georgian building with a road running over the roof. Or it’s a wall of rooms you can live in. Or it’s a room of walls you can live in. It’s a work of art." South Bridge - southeast gable to Cowgate: photo © adrian welch - no larger image available Here's a quote re South Bridge by David Black, Edinburgh historic expert: "a planned scheme first envisaged by Robert Adam, and relates to his Old College nearby. His design was not the one which was built - if it had been, we would have had an arcaded grand avenue on a par with the Rue de Rivoli in Paris - but the plainer version retained an Adamesque flavour, and pioneered the palace façade principle for buildings in mixed use which would become the leitmotiv of Edinburgh’s sophisticated urban neoclassicism". South Bridge context - Bank Hotel: photo © adrian welch 230207 with lumix camera Scottish Architecture: best scottish architecture of the last three decades Edinburgh Tours : Architecture Walking Tours South Bridge : Edinburgh Old Town Fire Block on corner of South bridge & Chambers St: south bridge buildings: © adrian welch South Bridge - northeast gable to Cowgate: photo © adrian welch - no larger image available South Bridge context: Tron Kirk Edinburgh Old Town South Bridge context: Radisson Hotel Edinburgh

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