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Battle for a city's skyline

Archiseek / UK / Scotland / News / 2006 / January 8

Anyone visiting Edinburgh's south side cannot have failed to notice the redevelopment work going on at the city's former Royal Infirmary site, renamed Quartermile because it is a quarter of a mile from the centre. A car crash of historic architecture and bland modern infill, the site shoulders on to the Meadows next to the University, where once hospital residents escaped on to the rusty balconies to smoke. Few, not least the patients, may mourn the replacement of those crumbling 1960s concrete ward ends. But the question facing our World Heritage designated capital is: what will replace it?

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