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Edinburgh New Town Buildings : Architecture
Contemporary Architecture – Historic Properties
post updated 3 July 2023
This page contains images & links for all key New Town buildings. Our other page –Edinburgh New Town – includes more info such as architects and locations
Edinburgh New Town Building
Typical New town street scene – Royal Circus:

Dean Gallery, 73 Belford Road:

Scotland’s National Gallery of Modern Art refurbishment:

SNGMA additional building:

The Bonham at 35 Drumsheugh Gardens:

32 Queensferry St Pizza Express:

West Register House – former church of St. George building:

Charlotte Square buildings:

80 George Street building:

Principal George Street Edinburgh New Town street: George St buildings
Edinburgh Galleries Shortlist
Edinburgh’s most famous street beside the Royal Mile: Princes Street

New Club, Princes St
British Home Stores, Princes St
Debenhams, Princes St
Oloroso rooftop restaurant, 37 Castle St

Centotre restaurant, 103 George St

Assembly Rooms, 54 George Street

New Town RSA – RSA, Princes Street

National Gallery of Scotland, The Mound

Rick’s Bar Hotel & Restaurant, 55a Frederick St

St Andrews & St Georges Church

Opal Lounge, George St

Scott Monument, Princes St

Jenners, Princes St

Princes Mall, Princes St
Former C&A Store, Princes St

H&M Edinburgh
Burtons Department Store
Balmoral Hotel, North Bridge/Princes St

Former New Town General Post Office – GPO redevelopment 2004

General Register House, 1774, Princes St
Robert Adam

Waverley Station Redevelopment : Edinburgh’s main railway between Old Town & New Town

New Town St James Centre, with later John Lewis Edinburgh addition

St James Centre Building conversion
New Town Greenside Place + Greenside Place

Calton Square
Former Royal Bank of Scotland Headquarters : Dundas Mansion, dating from 1774
Prudential Assurance, 14 South St.Andrew St
Scottish Provident Building Building, 1961

St Andrew Square by Basil Spence

Former Caledonian Insurance Co., 1959, Thomson & Connell

No.10 George Street, 1994, Reiach and Hall Architects

Standard Life Assurance George Street

The Walk incl. New Town Harvey Nichols, St Andrew Sq, 2002

Valvona & Crolla restaurant off Multrees Walk

Bank of Scotland HQ. St Andrew Square

Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 1 Queen St, 1895

Royal College of Physicians, 9 Queen St, 1845

8 Queen Street – Robert Adam, 1771
BBC Edinburgh Offices, 5 Queen St
Scotch Malt Whisky Society, 28 & 29 Queen St
Edinburgh New Town Phase 2, 1802-23
Design: Reid; Elliot; Playfair; Graham; Raeburn

Dublin Street Lane : Housing

William Playfair
Royal Crescent, 1823, Gillespie Graham’s Moray Place, 1822, Playfair’s St Stephen’s Church, 1828 at St. Vincent St. Great King St (R.L.Stevenson lived at 17 Heriot Row)
Eyre Place : housing

Fettes Row Flats terraces

photo : Michael Wolchover
Mansfield Traquair Centre

photo from Mansfield Traquair Centre
Pizza Express, 1 Deanhaugh St

Pizza Express Stockbridge
Dean Bank Lane : housing project

Circus Lane: Private House

Circus Lane Houses: Private Houses

Moray Place : Private House

Duguld Stewart Monument, 1831

City Observatory, 1818, Playfair

Calton Old Burial Ground, Waterloo Place

Obelisk to Political Martyrs; Memorial to David Hume; Governor’s House
Royal High School, 1829

Burns Monument, 1830

Scottish Capital Building Designs
Contemporary Scottish Capital Property Designs – recent architectural selection below:
Thistle Street Edinburgh New Town – oldest houses
Edinburgh New Town restaurants
Buildings / photos for the Edinburgh New Town Architecture page welcome

















