Museum of Scotland

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1990
Location: Edinburgh, UK
Project Status: Competition

A compact building of four storeys of general exhibition floors, punctuated by towers and halls within containing specific study collections.

The facades are bronze, with a textual density and colour analogous to the detail of the adjacent stone and cast-iron museum by Fowkes. Natural light into the building is carefully controlled, with particular windows on each floor giving views of the city and filtered light from above giving a glow to the ceilings of the study collection towers.