116 Fountainbridge, Fountainbridge Telephone Exchange

Category

Library Item

Item no

42040

Title

116 Fountainbridge, Fountainbridge Telephone Exchange, built 1952, architect Stewart Sim

Artist / maker

MacLean, Kevin

Date

2016

Type

Digital image

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

A 4-storey modern L-plan flat-roofed building formed by the meeting of rectangular and bowended blocks in polished cream sandstone ashlar, with large steel-framed windows. Stewart Sim was Senior Architect to the Ministry of Works in Scotland. The Builder wrote in 1952, 'The architect has expressed in a modern way both the function of the building, itself a modern service, and the dignity of a Government undertaking.'

This building is modernist in nature but mimics the flat-faced regularity and height of nearby tenements.

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