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The Oxgangs tower blocks (known locally as the Oxgangs high rise flats) were a group of 3 tower blocks which were built on Firrhill Drive/Oxgangs Crescent in 1961 and 1962. [1] They each contained a mixture of flats and maisonettes with 2 bedrooms each, totalling up to 80 homes per block. [ 2 ]
Cables Wynd House, better known as the Leith Banana Flats [1] [2] or the Banana Block [3] because of its curved shape, is a nine-storey local authority housing block in Leith, Edinburgh. The building, in fact, has ten storeys. The ground floor is called Cables Wynd and the nine floors above constitute Cables Wynd House.
This list ranks externally complete Edinburgh buildings and free-standing structures that stand more than 50 metres (160 ft) tall, based on standard height measurement. This includes spires and architectural details but does not include antenna masts. An equals sign (=) following a rank indicates the same height between two or more buildings.
These include the 23-storey tower block Martello Court, which accommodates 88 flats. Other high rise blocks in the area include Birnies Court, Fidra Court, Gunnet Court and Inchmickery Court. The Edinburgh Evening News compiled a short article documenting the history of the estate, including twenty two pictures from the area in the 1950s and 1960s.
The Edinburgh volume of the Buildings of Scotland series describes them as "Less stylish but more serious-minded". [2] Architectural historian Charles McKean describes them as "Jaunty blocks of international style flats on a butterfly plan, complete with roof gardens, canopies, balconies and curving garages. Particularly clever design ...
During his childhood, he lived in a top-floor flat at 55 Marchmont Crescent. [21] General Stanisław Maczek (1892–1994), World War II Polish tank commander who was instrumental in the Allied liberation of France. He lived at 16 Arden Street from 1948 until his death in 1994. A footpath on Bruntsfield Links is named in his honour. [22]
Quartermile mixes old and new construction. The former site of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh was sold in 2001 by Lothian University Hospitals NHS Trust (subsequently NHS Lothian), whereupon Foster and Partners were retained as the architects for new structures [2] whilst plans for the David Bryce-designed former hospital buildings were devised by Comprehensive Design Architects (CDA).
The Calders is a residential neighbourhood in Edinburgh, Scotland – not to be confused with the Calders of West Lothian aka West Calder, Mid Calder and East Calder, three separate villages. It is sometimes considered to be part of Wester Hailes or Sighthill, larger developments to its south and east respectively.