Ugliest Building in Edinbirgh?

[Future17]

I'm going for the aqua-marine monstrosity on the corner of Earlston Place/Lower London Road.

I don't know what they were thinking.

[Judas Iscariot]

Tynecastle Stadium :jamboak:

Thread closed :aok:

[.Sean.]

I'm going for the aqua-marine monstrosity on the corner of Earlston Place/Lower London Road.

I don't know what they were thinking.

Wasn't that voted the ugliest Building in Britain in some poll?

[Peevemor]

St James' Centre/New St Andrew's house will take a bit of beating.

[1two]

Meadowbank house on London road or Stevenson house in gorgie road.
Very very depressing buildings even inside.
I'm sure they both had very high suicide rates a few years back.

[Peevemor]

Meadowbank house on London road or Stevenson house in gorgie road.
Very very depressing buildings even inside.
I'm sure they both had very high suicide rates a few years back.

Meadowbank house did.

[KdyHby]

Old DSS building, Castle Terrace

[Pete]

I like all those sixties concrete buildings. Preserve them I say.

These new flats at niddrie are terrible. Even more so considering the buildings they replaced could have been refurbished and the end result would have been better housing.

[Peevemor]

I like all those sixties concrete buildings. Preserve them I say.

These new flats at niddrie are terrible. Even more so considering the buildings they replaced could have been refurbished and the end result would have been better housing.

There are some superb 60s buildings that should be preserved (the Basil Spence flats at Dumbiedyke for example), but good examples are hard to find.

[Phil D. Rolls]

St James' Centre/New St Andrew's house will take a bit of beating.

Standard Life's lubianka in Exchange Plaza. A statement of smugness and grandiosity. Their Tanfield place has to have been one of the best in the city - any idea where their aesthetics went?

Also the Kennedy Tower at the Royal Ed, gives me the creeps. Now I'm off, the Social Work place at Shrubhill was pretty awful.

Ugliest collection has to be Muirhouse (where I live). What sick mind thought that this would be a place to inspire people?

[WindyMiller]

Standard Life's lubianka in Exchange Plaza. A statement of smugness and grandiosity. Their Tanfield place has to have been one of the best in the city - any idea where their aesthetics went?

Also the Kennedy Tower at the Royal Ed, gives me the creeps. Now I'm off, the Social Work place at Shrubhill was pretty awful.

Ugliest collection has to be Muirhouse (where I live). What sick mind thought that this would be a place to inspire people?


The pre-fabs were better.

:agree:

[Jonnyboy]

St James Centre

[...WentToMowAnSPL]

St James Centre

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[Eyrie]

The Parliament building is the newest addition to the list.

[Future17]

Standard Life's lubianka in Exchange Plaza. A statement of smugness and grandiosity. Their Tanfield place has to have been one of the best in the city - any idea where their aesthetics went?


I used to work for SL and a VERY senior manager was once asked during a Q&A, why they had abandoned using Tanfield. His reply was that the building was octagonal and they only had rectangular desks. He was serious.


The Parliament building is the newest addition to the list.

Parts of the Parliament building are very nicely designed, although some parts look like a prison, but it's utimately the colour which gives it a dour and uninspiring image. A real shame as it's in a beautiful part of the city.

[Phil D. Rolls]

I used to work for SL and a VERY senior manager was once asked during a Q&A, why they had abandoned using Tanfield. His reply was that the building was octagonal and they only had rectangular desks. He was serious.



Parts of the Parliament building are very nicely designed, although some parts look like a prison, but it's utimately the colour which gives it a dour and uninspiring image. A real shame as it's in a beautiful part of the city.

British management at it's finest. I once heard a senior manager at Scottish Equitable say he wasn't a bad communicator, it's just that people didn't understand what he was saying.

Re. the Parliament, I think it is a very well thought out and attractive building. But it depends on where you see it from. From the Canongate it is practically invisible. However, if you walk around it there are lots of little nuances that bring it to life.

I think Miralles did a great job in integrating it with the Old Town and the park - as well as that wee Butt and Ben across the road. I think it is one of the most exciting and original bits of architecture I've seen in Scotland.

Having visited Barcelona, it's clear where the architect came from. Give me the Parliament in front of any turreted monstor like Exchange Plaza any day.

I never saw the Muirhouse pre-fabs, so can't comment. What was wrong with the scheme was those prison blocks that have now been torn down. It's all disjointed, and then you plonk the "courts" on top of that. Not an attractive place, but the people are brilliant all the same, and deserve better than the council did for them.

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

Meadowbank house on London road or Stevenson house in gorgie road.
Very very depressing buildings even inside.
I'm sure they both had very high suicide rates a few years back.

I used to work in MBH, it was like getting paid to go to school!

[heretoday]

The new Scotsman office in Holyrood Road, and I have to say they could do with some beefing up of the reception/phone answering department.

When you think what a wonderful building the old Scotsman was - like an ocean liner - totally impractical of course.

[Beefster]

Appleton Tower is hideous (from outside at least).

[danhibees1875]

Appleton Tower is hideous (from outside at least).

That's a good shout - and one of the few uni buildings left that hasn't had some work done on it since I've been there. I should get a reduction in my fee's for never having a complete uni! Oh wait... :cb

[ginger_rice]

Chesser House has to be in with a shout.

Parliament building is a great design just built in the wrong place where it can't be seen properly.

[Sick Boy]

Appleton Tower is hideous (from outside at least).

That would get my vote. Also the Jury's Inn on Jeffrey St is an unsightly blot on the skyline looking over towards the Royal Mile from North Bridge.

[RyeSloan]

That would get my vote. Also the Jury's Inn on Jeffrey St is an unsightly blot on the skyline looking over towards the Royal Mile from North Bridge.

Oh good shout...it's friggin horrible although thankfully it doesn't have a very dominant position so doesn't stand out too much.

The Scottish parly is not everyone's cup of tea but it's pretty harsh to call it one of Edinburgh's ugliest buildings I would say.

[Phil D. Rolls]

Oh good shout...it's friggin horrible although thankfully it doesn't have a very dominant position so doesn't stand out too much.

The Scottish parly is not everyone's cup of tea but it's pretty harsh to call it one of Edinburgh's ugliest buildings I would say.

Jeezo, it just shows you how the mind can block out nasty things. I think we have a winner.:greengrin

[steakbake]

Appleton Tower is hideous (from outside at least).

A true ****-heap. Is it true it's listed?

Jurys Inn is an eyesore. Waverley Centre is crap, Shrubhill house was awful and the Saint James Centre: what were they thinking?

[ChooseLife]

Corstorphine Police Station.

[Mibbes Aye]

A true ****-heap. Is it true it's listed?

Jurys Inn is an eyesore. Waverley Centre is crap, Shrubhill house was awful and the Saint James Centre: what were they thinking?

I think most of the 'modern' bits at George Square are listed including the University Library, David Hume Tower and the Theatre, but not Appleton.

Rightly so IMO - both the Library and DHT in particular are good examples of their slant on a Modernist style, though neither are necessarily going to please everyone aesthetically (especially DHT).

Appleton is just downright bad though.

[Beefster]

I think most of the 'modern' bits at George Square are listed including the University Library, David Hume Tower and the Theatre, but not Appleton.

Rightly so IMO - both the Library and DHT in particular are good examples of their slant on a Modernist style, though neither are necessarily going to please everyone aesthetically (especially DHT).

Appleton is just downright bad though.

The library I can just about appreciate but DHT is a *****hole inside and out (which you've acknowledged some folk might feel about it).

The Informatics Forum (right across for AT) is much better, although I suspect that it will age badly like the rest.

[Mixu62]

Chesser House has to be in with a shout.

Parliament building is a great design just built in the wrong place where it can't be seen properly.

Chesser or Saughton House. What is it about civil serice buildings? I usedd to work in St Margarets House, next door to Meadowbank house and thet were all pretty bad. And of course, Tynecastle. what a pit.

[JohnStephens91]

Napier Univeristy Merchiston Campus is absolutely horrendous.

[snooky]

Is the Parliament Building the result of a scavenger hunt on Porty beach after a gale?

[Phil D. Rolls]

Is the Parliament Building the result of a scavenger hunt on Porty beach after a gale?

:agree:If the building is supposed to represent Scotland, Miralles hit the nail on the head.