Archinect - News 2024-11-21T16:31:30-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/140966699/edinburgh-s-own-officials-are-mucking-up-the-city-s-historic-architecture-says-former-daily-mail-editor Edinburgh's own officials are mucking up the city's historic architecture, says former Daily Mail editor Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2015-11-13T04:02:00-05:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/bq/bqb8ds94ea2h8o2e.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>The effect is a curious one, as if a voluptuous society beauty has opened her mouth to smile at you, only to reveal a thin row of rotting teeth. [...] Depressingly, the numpties and panjandrums who sit on Edinburgh city council have squandered the opportunity to heal the wounds of the past. [...] What is it with this city, whose custodians, over centuries, seem to be ashamed of having so much natural beauty bestowed upon it and constantly seek ways to diminish it?</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>