Architecture

Shop owners and residents in Leith are being urged to take advantage of a £200,000 grant to restore shop fronts and buildings to their former glory.

Across the road from the Canongate Kirk is the Museum of Edinburgh and alongside it an A listed building that goes back to

It seems people like a demolition. Yesterday's demolition of the three towers in North Sighthill, to make way for 320 new homes (see earlier story), has already become the second most popular video on the City of Edinburgh Council's YouTube channel after 19 hours with 4,165 views.

Regimental memorabilia will be among the treasures on display when the Royal Scots Club takes part in Edinburgh’s Doors O

Buildings, many off-bounds to the general public during the rest of the year, throw open their doors, and gates for the annual Doors Open Day. Doors Open Day has taken place each year, since 1

The demolition of three multi-storey flats in North Sighthill is scheduled to go ahead this Sunday between 11am and noon.

Painting of the Forth Bridge - the paint job that famously "never ends" - is coming soon to an end.

With the sun still with us it seemed like an opportune time to investigate the recently erected tented village at George Square.

Original plans for Edinburgh's New Town, owned by the Museum of Edinburgh in the Canongate, are back on display in the museum having been painstakingly conserved by a specialist paper conservator.

We’re counting down to the re-opening of the National Museum of Scotland. Join the street party on Chambers Street on Friday 29 July from 9:15am to celebrate the grand opening on Friday the 29th of July. There will be on street entertainment with family activities.

Edinburgh's historic Assembly Rooms venue on George Street has two well-known tenants for next year, including the Fringe, f

The Scotsman Steps have been fully restored in marble along with a new piece of public art by Martin Creed.

Pupils from Edinburgh’s Tollcross Primary school today buried a time capsule at the building site of the Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC) expansion and associated office development.

As recently reported, Edinburgh Central Library will soon be undergoing some upgrades. This grand old building has retained much of its original character, but as this public information film from the council points out, there is much at library that has changed over the years.

The Nelson Monument on Calton Hill has been bathed in emerald light to celebrate St Patrick's Day.

Approval has been granted for an overgrown patch of the New Town to be coverted into community allotments. A row of Georgian tenements on MacKenzie Place, near Stockbridge, was demolished in 1967. The only remnants of the buildings, located below Doune Terrace and beside the Water of Leith, are a line of bricked-up cellars. In recent years, the area has been relatively untended, with crumbling walls and fallen trees.

The Scottish Government has launched a new £500,000 interest free loan scheme for householders installing micro-energy generating equipment. Loans will be available for a range of renewable heat and electricity technologies, such as heat pumps, solar panels, micro-wind turbines, or biomass boilers.

The old Odeon Cinema on Clerk Street has been boarded up for years. Campaigners say it should be, and it can be, saved.

Waverley Station’s Princes Street entrance will be closed from the beginning of next month as £7million construction work beings on rebuilding Waverley S

Communities, small and large, across Scotland, are being encouraged to get proactive in the fight against climate change with the help of government funding. The Scottish Government's Climate Challenge Fund (CCF) has been extended and is open to applications for the 2011/2012 round.