Canongate development
Street frontage, 79-121 Canongate in Edinburgh’s ‘Royal Mile’. The gap between the blocks gives access to Reid's Court and the eighteenth century Canongate Manse.
Part of the 1960s redevelopment of slum areas by Edinburgh City Corporation. Three blocks of one and two-bedroom flats, shops and a pub (Jenny Ha’s) by Basil Spence, Glover & Ferguson (1966-9). Rubble, concrete and harl with concrete arcades to front and concrete balconies to rear.
Described as ‘aggressive architecture’ in the Edinburgh volume of the buildings of Scotland. In fact the scale is in keeping with the general streetscape and the way in which the Old Town’s urban pattern has been formed and changed through four centuries.
Canongate development
Street frontage, 79-121 Canongate in Edinburgh’s ‘Royal Mile’. The gap between the blocks gives access to Reid's Court and the eighteenth century Canongate Manse.
Part of the 1960s redevelopment of slum areas by Edinburgh City Corporation. Three blocks of one and two-bedroom flats, shops and a pub (Jenny Ha’s) by Basil Spence, Glover & Ferguson (1966-9). Rubble, concrete and harl with concrete arcades to front and concrete balconies to rear.
Described as ‘aggressive architecture’ in the Edinburgh volume of the buildings of Scotland. In fact the scale is in keeping with the general streetscape and the way in which the Old Town’s urban pattern has been formed and changed through four centuries.