Publication Account

Date 1997

Event ID 1019371

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1019371

The culmination of a distinguished series of Royal Mile slum redevelopment/improvement schemes by Hurd. lanned and executed in three stages, the project contains a mixture of preserved tenement blocks and new infill, with a front range to the Canongate and rear wings framing Chessel's Buildings (a tenement block of c.1745) at the rear. It is unified by coloured harling and self-consciously Traditionalist features, such as arcasing, in a simplified Lorimerian style. This formula, which developes 'conservsative surgery' ideas first enunicated by Sydney Mitchell and Patrick Geddes at the turn of the century, was paralelled in the contemporary reconstruction of bombed German historic cities, such as Münster and Nüremberg. (Fig. 4.17).

Information from 'Rebuilding Scotland: The Post-War Vision, 1945-75', (1997).