This an other related 'developments' have been mentioned in several threads.
http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/creeping-demolition-of-east-end-slammed-1-3677001
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"Creeping demolition’ of East End slammed"
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Posted 10 years ago #
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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.
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Glasgow airport was so ugly they built a new front on it.
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.
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@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.
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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.
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.
Boyd Orr… OK on the inside I suppose.
Genetics had a paternoster. I hated that.
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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.
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I still remember Edinburgh Airports brown façade. Think bits of it can still be seen airside.
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.
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