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Plan for the New Town by James Craig (1768) A design competition was held in January 1766 to find a suitably modern layout for the new suburb. It was won by 26-year-old James Craig, who, following the natural contours of the land, proposed a simple axial grid, with a principal thoroughfare along the ridge linking two garden squares.
From 1802 to 1809 he assisted the much older William Sibbald in the design of the Second New Town in Edinburgh, largely being responsible for the facades. [ 2 ] Reid also contributed to the layout of Charlotte Square in the city following fellow architect Robert Adam 's death, constructing a home for himself there (No. 44) and completing the ...
Playfair's townhouse at 17 Great Stuart Street, Edinburgh Playfair's grave in Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh Statue of William Henry Playfair, Chambers Street, Edinburgh. William Henry Playfair FRSE (15 July 1790 – 19 March 1857) was a prominent Scottish architect in the 19th century who designed the Eastern, or Third, New Town and many of Edinburgh's neoclassical landmarks.
The New Town is defined here as the area shown in light brown on the map to the right, with some small exceptions: to the north, a line along St. Stephen Street, Fettes Row, Royal Crescent, and Bellevue Crescent, then along East London Street; This includes Royal Crescent, Scotland Street and Bellevue Crescent, which are omitted from the map area
The Georgian House is an 18th-century townhouse situated at No. 7 Charlotte Square in the heart of the historic New Town of the city of Edinburgh, Scotland.It has been restored and furnished by the National Trust for Scotland, and is operated as a popular tourist attraction, with over 40,000 visitors annually.
The Dean Orphanage (now Dean Gallery) from the SW Burns Monument, Edinburgh by Thomas Hamilton Martyrs Monument, Calton Hill. Thomas Hamilton (11 January 1784 – 24 February 1858) was a Scottish architect, based in Edinburgh where he designed many of that city's prominent buildings.
The New Town was an 18th-century solution to the problem of an increasingly crowded city which had been confined to the ridge sloping down from the castle. In 1766 a competition to design a "New Town" was won by James Craig, a 27-year-old architect. [106] The plan was a rigid, ordered grid, which fitted in well with Enlightenment ideas of ...
Located at 6 Charlotte Square in the New Town of Edinburgh, it is the central house on the north side of the square and was designed by Robert Adam. It has served as the official residence of every first minister since Donald Dewar in 1999, and prior to that, the secretary of state for Scotland who headed the Scotland Office , from the 1970s ...