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DEEP DOWN AND DIRTY IN NEW St ANDREW’S HOUSE
Today we examine the tripes of the beastie: pipes, ducts, plant and cabling.
Spurtle claims no special knowledge of these matters. Depending upon your point of view, what follows will be a mutual voyage of discovery or a hapless lurch in the dark.
(1) We begin our display of ignorance with a machine designed possibly for heating something up or for cooling it down. (Feel free to chip in with better suggestions at any point.)
SIGNS OF THE TIMES IN NEW St ANDREW’S HOUSE
Today we continue our exploration of New St Andrew’s House with a look at words – not civil service documents and memos but words printed, etched, and scrawled on the fabric of the building.
There were remarkably few left on the floors we investigated. Perhaps the most redolent of times past are the corridor directions, styled in resolute lower-case Helvetica.
EXPLORING NEW St ANDREW’S HOUSE
Demolition of the doomed St James Centre comes closer day by day.
Boots moved out yesterday, leaving another empty socket in a retail smile now almost devoid of teeth.
If Edinburgh Council gets its way, colourful scenes like this could soon be gone forever.
The City Centre and Leith Neighbourhood Office seeks volunteers for a community clean-up on Friday, marking the end of a week-long anti-graffiti drive by officials.
Those taking part (10am–12.30pm) will meet under the Calton Road rail bridge. They’ll receive protective equipment, anti-graffiti solutions (no shotguns), and guidance.
They’ll also get a free lunch, courtesy of ‘local eateries’.
Such is the safety of modern international air travel that we tend to respond with shock – not just horror – when something goes terribly wrong.
In the 19th century, these catastrophes were all too common for those who travelled by sea, but descriptions of their loved ones’ unresolved hope, distress and eventual resignation are painfully familiar.
A catalogue of such loss and grief stretches across every cemetery in Edinburgh, not least Rosebank. Here we find a monument erected to the memory of Allan McLean, a Leith mariner who died, aged 25, in 1867.
MARTIN McKENZIE: LA MER DU SUD
Welcome back to The Sutton Gallery, which this month returns with its first exhibition of the year – and what a wonderful show it is.
Martyn McKenzie was first mentioned in my review of the gallery’s Winter Show in December, and this exhibition was already being mooted back then.
The sun is out, the days are lengthening, and the light is definitely improving.
If your home suddenly feels dirty and covered in smudges, get out in the open air and take part in the first of our regular photographic quizzes running from Friday to Friday each week this spring and summer.
We’re looking at animals – not just in Broughton – but across the whole city. And not your boring old living animals, quacking and mooing and stinging people in the way of conventional wildlife, but dead-as-a-doornail animals shaped, sculpted or moulded by human hand.
Bellevue Chapel on Rodney Street seeks planning permission for extensions to the side (on Cornwallis Place) and rear (Ref. 16/02317/FUL).
The proposed development’s extra 122 sq.m would mostly be gained by building over the current area of railed-off chippings. The additional floorspace is intended to accommodate the independent evangelical church’s growing congregation and community events.
RHYS FULLERTON REVIEWS ILONA SZALAY: QUEEN OF SWORDS
After less than a year, Ilona Szalay is back at the Arusha Gallery with another provocative exhibition.
Her oil-on-glass paintings here in Witness last August were one of my highlights of the summer, and I’m pleased to see her return. But be warned – these exceptional new works are highly personal and often seem intrusive.
To nobody’s great surprise, Provincial Property Holding Ltd (PPH) has appealed the Council’s refusal of planning permission for eight townhouses between Broughton Road and the Claremonts (Ref. 15/02335/FUL, see Breaking news, 10.2.16).