http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: "Creeping demolition’ of East End slammed" en Fri, 22 May 2026 07:20:58 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14318#post-179748 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 20:10:12 +0000 Fountainbridge 179748@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I still remember Edinburgh Airports brown façade. Think bits of it can still be seen airside.</p> <p>I found out recently that airports are exempt from planning permission. That's one of the reasons Edinburgh airport can build things so quickly from announcement to finished and also be so ugly. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14318#post-179745 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 20:00:52 +0000 Arellcat 179745@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Napier Uni's towerblock at Merchiston had a paternoster too, back in the day. I sometimes wonder if any of it remains behind plasterboard and cobwebs. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14318#post-179740 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 19:38:30 +0000 wee folding bike 179740@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Mostly I was in Botany which is Victorian, well, designed at the very tail end of Victorian and opened in 1901. It had a big fire in 2001 and when they rebuilt it they missed the pig heads off the roof. I've got a 35mm photo of the pig heads on a Sunday morning but the negative is in a box somewhere. The inside had a refurb in the '70s so I'm not sure what it looked like originally. </p> <p>I spent a year of two mornings a week looking out of the Zoo lab windows at the dinosaur wall on the back of Chemistry.</p> <p>Boyd Orr… OK on the inside I suppose.</p> <p>Genetics had a paternoster. I hated that. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14318#post-179736 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 19:06:46 +0000 Stickman 179736@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@wfb: I'll see your genetics building and raise you the Glasgow Uni maths building. A depressing, dark, brute. Those responsible for commissioning it, designing it and building it should be ashamed. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14318#post-179733 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 18:39:47 +0000 wee folding bike 179733@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Glasgow airport was so ugly they built a new front on it.</p> <p>Not a fan or Mr Spence having worked in Glasgow Uni genetics building which was his fault too. The building, not me working in it. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14318#post-179701 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 12:58:06 +0000 kaputnik 179701@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'd wager that Edinburgh Airport's interior could win a whole heap of "Tacky and disfunctional" awards, but then again that doesn't really set it apart from any other airport, does it?</p> <p>I notice that the airport extension has that horrid multi-tone grey plastic cladding that has also appeared in town at the Quartermile and Napier's Fountainbridge student housing developments. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14318#post-179699 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 12:47:43 +0000 stiltskin 179699@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yes, the airport extension is an odd one to nominate. After all, you can barely see it tucked behind the multi-story car park. I notice they had to go to the top of the car park to get a photo if it. I doubt it registers in most people's minds as a building in its own right. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14318#post-179698 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 12:45:41 +0000 dougal 179698@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>For buildings like airports I'm more focussed on the internals than externals. I was in Kings Cross at the weekend and marvelled how human everything seemed. Warm, for example, even though it was freezing outside. Waverley is like standing in an aircraft hangar at the best of times and like a wind tunnel on some times. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14318#post-179696 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 12:36:00 +0000 AKen 179696@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm relatively relaxed about having ugly buildings out at the airport. Even if a nice building had been put up, it would have been lost amongst all acres of concrete car parking, runways and dull sheds that are there already. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14318#post-179685 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 11:27:12 +0000 kaputnik 179685@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/transport/edinburgh-airport-extension-worst-building-1-3678030" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/transport/edinburgh-airport-extension-worst-building-1-3678030</a></p> <p>Aberdeen has a Plook on a Plinth, but Edinburgh now has a Zit and a Pock Mark to proudly put on the mantlepiece at City Chambers, for the hideous Edinburgh Airport extension and the demolition of the listed Scottish Provident building on St. Andrew Square to make way for a glass, matchstick and sandstone cube for Standard Life. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14318#post-179563 Mon, 02 Feb 2015 13:51:19 +0000 chdot 179563@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>This an other related 'developments' have been mentioned in several threads. </p> <p><a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/creeping-demolition-of-east-end-slammed-1-3677001" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/creeping-demolition-of-east-end-slammed-1-3677001</a> </p>