Το ιστορικό και καλαίσθητο Principal Edinburgh George Street είναι το πρώην The George Hotel και βρίσκεται σε μια αξιοζήλευτη τοποθεσία στο κέντρο του Εδιμβούργου, κοντά στο Κάστρο του Εδιμβούργου, το πάρκο Princes Street Gardens και το Παλάτι Holyrood.
Το Principal αποτελεί εναν φόρο τιμής στην αρχαία ελληνική αρχιτεκτονική. Τόσο εξωτερικά και άλλο τόσο εσωτερικά η αρχιτεκτονική του ειναι βασισμένη σε αυτήν της Αρχαίας Ελλάδας. Προσφέρει κομψά δωμάτια, καθώς και αίθουσες συνεδριάσεων και συσκέψεων.
Αυτό το διατηρητέο κτήριο με τη χαρακτηριστική πρόσοψη σχεδιάστηκε τουλάχιστον 200 χρόνια πριν, ενώ η πλειοψηφία των δωματίων και των κοινόχρηστων χώρων έχουν μεταμορφωθεί στο πλαίσιο ενός εκτενούς προγράμματος ανακαίνισης.
Η αρχιτεκτονική των εσωτερικών χώρων ανταποκρίνεται στο μεγαλείο του παρελθόντος, χάρη στις απλές λεπτομέρειες και τη χρήση πολυτελών υλικών.
Statement of Special Interest
No 19 was given a tetrastyle portico by Bryce, which was repeated across Nos 17 & 15 (house and tenement stair) by MacGibbon & Ross, who at the same time added the attic storey; Watherston later altered the ground floor, perhaps also altering No 21 to suit. MacGibbon & Ross were working for the Caledonian Insurance Company, while providing hotel accommodation on the upper floors for the adjacent George Hotel. The George took over the whole building in 1950. The W houses contain a significant surviving part of the original fabric of Edinburgh?s New Town, one of the most important and best preserved examples of urban planning in Britain.
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Source/Photo/Bibliography
THE BUILDER 11 July 1879, 20 March 1880.
Gifford, McWilliam and Walker EDINBURGH (1988) p299.
A J Youngson THE MAKING OF CLASSICAL EDINBURGH (1966) pp91-3.
C McKean EDINBURGH RIAS Guide (1992) p95. Valerie Fiddes and Alistair Rowan
DAVID BRYCE 1803-1876 (1976) p92. Kirkwood?s Map of 1819.
HISTORY OF THE 100 YEARS: THE CALEDONIAN 1805-1905.
Dean of Guild plans 30th July 1840.
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