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Edinburgh's skyline 'defaced' by controversial development
- ggm 5y agoFor history, the ugly building replaces a badly made equally ugly building. (The St James centre which was a shockingly bad example of modernist concrete design. I went round it in the 70s during construction which was fascinating) a rundown stone built Victorian streetscape on the outside edge of the new town (Georgian) was allowed to rot, to justify replacement: a trick used repeatedly across edinburgh around the university precinct south of the city centre. Some of these modernist buildings failed inside their planned lifetime and already functionally useless. This new build is so bad, some people are calling for Edinburgh to lose heritage city listing. At one point town planners seriously proposed a raised dual carriageway through the centre of town, built over open green spaces, in a city of significant cultural heritage. They're just nuts.