Give us Adam's eden

From: The Scotsman | Date: December 24, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

When Christopher Wren caught a whiff of the charred remains of medieval London he may well have had the consoling scent of opportunity in his nostrils, for before him lay, not a cinder desert, but the prospect of the future city which, with a little help from Nicholas Hawksmoor and others, he would go on to create.

The romantic legend of the visionary architect persists. The latest site of interest for those who would create a perfect new- build world out of the ruins of the old is Edinburgh's devastated Cowgate. The first proposals - like Ron Galloway's plan published in The Scotsman - are ...

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