Calton Road Edinburgh Buildings, Whitefoord House Photos, Development, Architects, Images
Calton Road Edinburgh : Architecture
Whitefoord House, Whitehorse Close, Buchanan Court + Canongate
Calton Road Buildings
Calton Road fhousing ; Canongate Kirk ; Burial Ground
Photos Mar 2007 by Adrian Welch:
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Calton Road flats, photos by Adrian Welch Sep 2007
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Calton Road flats
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):
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Recent housing between Canongate Kirk and former New St Bus Station – images:
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Whitefoord House
1769
Robert Mylne
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Calton Road building
Whitefoord House Refurbishment
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Mottram Patrick Architects
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Whitehorse Close – Refurbishment, 31 Canongate
1964
Sir Frank Mears & Partners
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Lochend Close housing:
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School, Canongate
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Victorian squat school opposite Sir Basil Spence’s housing, still in use as a Primary and Nursery to the west.
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View west up Canongate with school to immediate left and Richard Murphy Architects’ Canongate housing beyond again on the left.
79-121 Canongate – housing
Date built: 1968
Basil Spence, Glover & Ferguson
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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
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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