Different Styles

I thought these views, taken from the same spot on the Mound as I trudged up this morning in dispiriting drizzle, were an interesting contrast in building styles.
The classic architecture of the Art galleries and beyond over Princes Street to the New Town contrasts  vividly with the Scots Baronial style of architecture of Ramsay Garden on Castlehill in the Old Town. 

I always see these latter houses overlooking Princes Street as some sort of fairy castle sitting beside the forbidding Edinburgh Castle. To me they look out of context with their older neighbour but at the time they were planned, the end of the 19th century, the urban planner Patrick Geddes sought to bring life to an old part of the town which had fallen into disrepair.
They may be out of context with their surroundings but today they offer the only welcome bit of colour in a vista of greyness.