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	Holyrood Rd 1 529 x 768 74K	Looking towards the foot of St Mary's Street. This (almost) isolated building is of a typically Scottish style of architecture.
	Holyrood Rd 3 1024 x 768 113K	An eclectic jumble of surfaces and bits of old and new construction.
	Holyrood Rd 5 1024 x 768 79K	Almost a silhouette of Lochview Court and Salisbury Crags. People are visible on the top of the crags and on the Radical Road, a footpath reconstructed at the suggestion of Walter Scott as a way of creating jobs.
	Holyrood Rd 6 1024 x 768 114K	Looming gracefully over the hole-in-the-ground that will one day be the Scottish Parliament, are these twin cranes.
	Holyrood Rd 7 1024 x 768 109K	A close-up shows that the all-white paint job (except for that red bit) is, indeed, immaculate.
	Holyrood Rd 8 1024 x 768 115K	Taken from the entrance to the Dynamic Earth exhibition, is this view to Calton Hill - a view soon to disappear.
	Holyrood Rd a 1024 x 768 114K	Dynamic Earth's building is both supported and tensioned by these tripod-like constructions.
	Holyrood Rd c 804 x 768 90K	Another view of Calton Hill with the Nelson Monument to the left, and the so-called National Monument aka Edinburgh's Disgrace - to the right.
	Parliament Sept '04 q 1152 x 864 161K	Some detail as seen from street level at Horse Wynd. Evidently the stuck-on decorations represent curtains, according to the architect's widow.
	Parliament July '05 d 1152 x 864 209K	If this area was going to be wild, then why arrange its 'wildness' in converging concrete curves? I can just imagine this Italian dude drawing sweeping artistic curves on his drawing board... Maybe a grassroots poll is called for: Should it be strimmed or mowed, weeded manually or with chemicals etc. Should native plants be encouraged and foreign invaders be weeded out?

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