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116 Fountainbridge, Fountainbridge Telephone Exchange
MacLean, Kevin, 2016, Digital image
116 Fountainbridge, Fountainbridge Telephone Exchange
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116 Fountainbridge, Fountainbridge Telephone Exchange, built 1952, architect Stewart Sim
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MacLean, Kevin
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2016
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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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