ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE

Day started beautifully, however by lunchtime had turned wet, misty and windy.
Drove onto the roof of chapel street car park for a blip early evening

Le Corbusier style versus Wilson and Walker
The two towers at the right of the picture and the tower block.
both now warehouses for people.

A small housing area bordered by Skene Street and Huntly Street.
A stand alone block, built in 1976 Thistle Court, lies just to the south
The development is a mixed one in the truest sense.
Housing types range from two storey houses, to masionette blocks, to flats.
The central feature is the ten-storey Gilcomston Land,
a maisonette block of the same design as Seamount Court at the Gallowgate.

The Broadford works, a very large, four-storeyed,
red brick-built flax warehouse,
much of the brick emanating from the Seton Brick and Tile Works in Aberdeen. Several features of the building are of note.
Each of the four storeys are divided into large compartments, three bays wide. The smaller block being granite clad and built c.1870. The larger turretted brick building was designed by Wilson and Walker in 1911-12) and has ferro-concrete (hennibique) floors.