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Hey folks, I'm embarking on a wee project and looking at building up a list of Art Deco architecture in the city that I'll have a trip around with the camera.
Looking to add to the list I've just started:
Lothian House
St Andrew's House
Learmonth Court
Ravelston Garden
Craigmillar White House
Coburg House
Causewayside Garage
Old Castlebrae School and Church
There must be loads of examples out there, and I can pretty much guarantee this is the place to ask.
Oh, and the old Odeon cinema on Clerk Street as well...
Longstone Lothian Buses depot
Fountainbridge Library...
This isn't probably what you had in mind-
"This is enriched by Art Deco touches added during refurbishment of the building by Lothian Region Architects’ Department in 1978-1980."
but the page has 'the best of the last 150 years', so is worth a look.
Don't forget art deco flats around Powderhall area. Some in Logie Green Gardens and some in Broughton road I think too - it could be East Claremont Street.
That bridge that carries the canal over Slateford Road(?).
Sorry, computer is too crap to even open the streetmap website so I check. You'll probably know the ones I mean though..
Off the top of my head;
* Maybury Casino
* The SCA packaging factory next to the Maybury Casino
* The house off Kaimes Road that I sent you the link to
* National Library of Scotland on GIV bridge
* old Dental School/Hospital on Chambers Street (now Vodka Revolution bar?)
Old cinemas;
* the corner of Mill Lane and Great Junction Street
* Gorgie Road at Angle Park Terrace
* Gorgie Road at Alexander Drive
There will be more that I think of. Try searches on Scotlandsplace.gov.uk and Scran.ac.uk (subscription for 6 months to the latter is a tenner I think and pays for itself many times over). One of the most unique and interesting art deco buildings I've come across (alas, never seen as it has long been swept away) is the circular miner's pithead baths at Arniston colliery in Midlothian. A shame people didn't really think to preserve things like that in those days.
See, I knew it would be the place to ask! :)
St Andrew's House on Waterloo Place is Art Deco influenced, some nice touches but a bit on the muscular side.
You might also want to check out the Maybury Casino and the building on the corner of St Andrew Square and George Street (used to house Grape pub).
Don't forget
http://www.grantonhistory.org/schools/schools_sec_ainslie_park.htm
http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/76531/details/edinburgh+pilton+ainslie+park+high+school
I presume the sculptures are still on the front.
You could get a flat in it...
building on the corner of St Andrew Square and George Street
Of course! It's called the Capital Building and has a fabulous main door and statues and windows and columns.
Every time someone comes up with something I keep thinking oh yeah! See these things all the time and only notice them half the time. Such an evocative style (which obviously I love given I've started myself on a wee project); and often a shame to find a grand cinema turned into a Bed Shed!
I often think the 30s would have been a fab time to be alive and rich with the decadent glamour. Then realise at the end of that decade I would have been drafted to go off and fight Jerry.
Dominion Cinema
and here's one I have never heard of - St Raphael's Hospital on South Oswald Road / Blackford Avenue
The outline of the building is still similar, but I think it's been "renovated" and doesn't look nearly so cool anymore. Can't tell from streetview because of the big wall and trees.
The granite flats on Falcon Avenue
The block of flats on Colinton Road at Napier University (Napier house? Merchiston house?)
There are some lovely flats with curved windows in Forbes Road (number 8 iirc)
So can we add 'architecture' to the list of 'spotting' indulged in here to go along with trains and bricks? Quite some response here to one single style of building!
Block of flats at 28 Bruntsfield Gardens
"Learmonth Mansions" on corner of Learmonth Terrace and Orchard Brae. It fits in quite well with the surrounding tenements, however the curving garage entrance on Orchard Brae is very evocative of the style.
And
http://jackdeighton.co.uk/2011/05/21/edinburgh’s-art-deco-heritage-4-princes-street-gardens
Also you might have to visit Kirkcaldy -
Bruntsfield Gardens/Forbes Road (it's L shaped).
Bit sort of 'after Art Deco' aka "30s". Presume it was designed as one building. The curved bits are only on the Forbes Road side. UPDATE - not true.
Aren't there a few blocks of tenement down Restalrig Road which might qualify? The ones with the tall stairwell windows?
"Bit sort of 'after Art Deco' aka "30s". Presume it was designed as one building. The curved bits are only on the Forbes Road side."
While the heyday of Art Deco was certainly the 20s/30s it's really just an architectural style, and had a mini-resurgence in the 60s. Still counts as Art Deco in my eyes, even if it's not from the original era.
Anyway, never mind Kirkcaldy, I need to go back to Singapore (sadly you can't get in to this building, but there's an immense lobby with bars on either side, and (apparently) waitresses used to 'fly' on wires to serve people.
You need to go to Napier, NZ. A great deal of the town centre is art deco and there's supposed to be a tour round it led by an appropriately-beclobbered bloke but he didn't turn up when he was supposed to.
"it's really just an architectural style, and had a mini-resurgence in the 60s. Still counts as Art Deco in my eyes, even if it's not from the original era."
In that case you'll be busy touring the suburbs searching for stray bungalows.
Jenners flats at Ravelston:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravelston_Garden
Lots of nice touches on the inside too.
I wouldn't mind living here -
http://media.primelocation.com/RETTGR/RETT/RETT_EDI110408/BROCH_01.PDF
(Way out of my price range.)
"You need to go to Napier, NZ. A great deal of the town centre is art deco and there's supposed to be a tour round it led by an appropriately-beclobbered bloke but he didn't turn up when he was supposed to."
Been there, done that (well, we walked round on our own...)
"In that case you'll be busy touring the suburbs searching for stray bungalows."
Arbitrarily I've decided that's taking things a little too far... ;)
Is Simpson's Memorial Hospital still there or was it demolished for the Quartermile? (Typing Simpson Memorial into Google returns a lot of cycling related content as you might expect).
There is a small oasis of Art Deco at the Western General hospital, sandwiched between the Fire Training building to the north and the Clinical Assessment & Research Training Centre to the south, and just west of the old Clock Tower Building.
"Is Simpson's Memorial Hospital still there"
Pretty sure it's gone - certainly they got demolition consent some time ago.
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