20th-century stroll from King's Buildings to Cameron Toll
Saturday, 21 June, in Edinburgh
Join us for a guided walk in Edinburgh from the King’s Buildings campus of the University of Edinburgh to Cameron Toll shopping centre with a few other stops on the way. The walk will include various significant 20th-century buildings, ranging from private houses to commercial, educational and healthcare facilities.
We’ll meet near the King’s Buildings campus at 12:30 p.m., and finish, at about 3 p.m. near Cameron Toll. (Exact start and end locations will be confirmed nearer the time.) The walk will be guided by the architectural historian Dr Clive B Fenton and the conservation architect Carsten Hermann, both committee members of Docomomo Scotland.
Tickets cost £7 / concession £5 / Docomomo members £3 in advance. You can buy tickets at TicketTailor.
Please note that this is a gentle but physical walk of about 2.5 miles. Please wear appropriate clothing for Scottish weather and suitable footwear!
This event will be in person and streamed online from 7-8 p.m. at the Quaker Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace (above Victoria St.), Edinburgh EH1 2JL. The venue has barrier-free access by lift. Tickets cost £7 / concession £5 / Docomomo members £3 in advance.
Image – Entrance of the SavaCentre in Edinburgh’s Cameron Toll Centre in 1984 when the shopping centre opened. The store is still used today as a supermarket by Sainsbury’s which owned the SaveCentres. – Photo taken from Facebook Group “Lost Edinburgh”
20th-century architecture tour of Aberdeen
Saturday, 02 August, in Aberdeen
Join us for a tour of Aberdeen to explore the city’s rich architectural heritage of the mid- to late 20th century. Guided by architect Jack Burnett-Stuart and architectural historian Prof. Miles Glendinning, the tour will include mass housing, the Bon Accord Baths, Gray’s School of Art and more.
We’ll start at 10:30 a.m. at Aberdeen Railway Station. The morning will be a walking tour of the city centre. We’ll have a short break over lunch. In the afternoon, a minibus will take us to a few sites outside of the city centre. At the end of the tour, the minibus will return you to Aberdeen Station.
The tour costs £20 for non-members (no concession), £10 for non-members (concession) and for members (no concession) and £10 for members (concession). Concession are available to those with low or no incomes.
You can buy tickets at TicketTailor.
Image – Seamount and Porthill Court, two modern Brutalist multi-storey ‘slab’ blocks of flats built from 1959 to 1966 to designs by Aberdeen City Architects Department and now listed as cultural heritage at category A – image copyright Andrew Stephenson via Flickr
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