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Last modified on Sat 6 Feb 2021 17.07 EST When renowned Scottish architect Thomas Hamilton set about designing a home for Edinburgh’s Royal High School in the early 1800s, he cemented the city’s reputation as an “Athens of the North” with a Greek revival building still considered one of Europe’s finest. But despite being widely lauded and variously floated as a home for the Scottish parliament, a national photography centre and a military history museum, the building has lain empty since the school moved in 1968. Now, a decision by the city’s council to strip hot...

Edinburgh's old Royal High School building risks the same fate as A-listed St Peter's Seminary – John McLellan Nestling in the Argyllshire countryside near Cardross is one of Scotland’s architectural gems, the country’s best post-war building, according to Prospect architectural magazine, while Historic Environment Scotland describes it as “one of the finest modern buildings”. Saturday, 23rd January 2021, 7:00 am The former Royal High School on Calton Hill has been lying largely empty for more than half a century. (Picture: Steven Scott Taylor)