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Publication Account
Date 1997
Event ID 1019365
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1019365
The Tradtionalist classicism if this building was, by the end of the 30s, the internationally accepted idiom for design of public buildings anywhere in Europe. Yet individual instances of this monumentalism - just like the international 'vernacular' of c.1900 - were typically justified by rhetoric of a national 'essence'. Here, the test which accompanies Carr's successful competition entry claimed the design was a response to the 'inborn characteristics' of Scots towns. Its construction delayed by the war, the Town House was eventually built in little-altered form. (Fig 4.9).
Information from 'Rebuilding Scotland: The Post-War Vision, 1945-75', (1997).
