The Balmoral is a luxury five-star property and landmark in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Resulting from a competition in 1895, the hotel originally opened on 15 October 1902. It was designed by architect William Hamilton Beattie and for most of the twentieth century was known as the North British Station Hotel or simply the N.B., a traditional railway hotel built for the North British Railway Company. The North British kept the same name until 1988 when the hotel closed for a major refurbishment.
The building’s architecture is Victorian, influenced by the traditional Scottish baronial style. It was stripped of most of its ornamental stone balconies in its refurbishment, and while remaining ornate, is visibly "scarred".
On 12 June 1991 Sir Sean Connery officially re-opened the hotel as The Balmoral, Gaelic for 'majestic dwelling', following a £23-million refurbishment.
Since 1902, the hotel's clock has been set three minutes fast to ensure that the people of Edinburgh wouldn't miss their trains. This is still the case today. The only day that the clock runs on time is on 31 December for the city’s New Year celebrations. The clock tower, at 190 feet (58 m) high, forms a prominent landmark in Edinburgh's city centre.
I had an art gallery on the top of the building opposite this about 15 years ago. I could go out my skylight into the roof and hang around drinking beers in the unrented sky garden that a developer had installed next to me. I could look at the Balmoral and see bits of masonry and metal disturbed by storms and on the edge of plummeting below to kill a pedestrian.
An evil building indeed.
( I used to phone up the management at the Balmoral and warn them and they immediately would check/repair thus thwarting the satanic building’s plans).
savvyfuck on January 29th, 2018 at 12:26 UTC »
The Balmoral is a luxury five-star property and landmark in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Resulting from a competition in 1895, the hotel originally opened on 15 October 1902. It was designed by architect William Hamilton Beattie and for most of the twentieth century was known as the North British Station Hotel or simply the N.B., a traditional railway hotel built for the North British Railway Company. The North British kept the same name until 1988 when the hotel closed for a major refurbishment.
The building’s architecture is Victorian, influenced by the traditional Scottish baronial style. It was stripped of most of its ornamental stone balconies in its refurbishment, and while remaining ornate, is visibly "scarred".
On 12 June 1991 Sir Sean Connery officially re-opened the hotel as The Balmoral, Gaelic for 'majestic dwelling', following a £23-million refurbishment.
Since 1902, the hotel's clock has been set three minutes fast to ensure that the people of Edinburgh wouldn't miss their trains. This is still the case today. The only day that the clock runs on time is on 31 December for the city’s New Year celebrations. The clock tower, at 190 feet (58 m) high, forms a prominent landmark in Edinburgh's city centre.
pablorobo on January 29th, 2018 at 13:02 UTC »
I had an art gallery on the top of the building opposite this about 15 years ago. I could go out my skylight into the roof and hang around drinking beers in the unrented sky garden that a developer had installed next to me. I could look at the Balmoral and see bits of masonry and metal disturbed by storms and on the edge of plummeting below to kill a pedestrian.
An evil building indeed.
( I used to phone up the management at the Balmoral and warn them and they immediately would check/repair thus thwarting the satanic building’s plans).
cell- on January 29th, 2018 at 13:58 UTC »
Reminds me of Bloodborne.