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Basil Spence & Partners
Edinburgh
1961-69
Basil Spence & Partners
Edinburgh
1961-69
Sir Basil Spence, of the architects firm Basil Spence & Partners, designed this modern complex on the Canongate. Completed by 1969 under the firms new title, Spence, Glover and Ferguson, the development consists of three colourful blocks of flats constructed of rubble, concrete and harl, with concrete arcaded canopies at the front and balconies at the rear