SCOTLAND ARCHITECTURE MODELS

Scotland has produced architecture of extraordinary ambition and originality — a tradition that runs from the Georgian elegance of Edinburgh's New Town to the revolutionary work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, and from the Victorian confidence of Aberdeen's civic buildings to the Arts and Crafts houses of the west coast.

Four of the six buildings in this collection are by Mackintosh, and rightly so: the Glasgow School of Art, Hill House in Helensburgh, the Willow Tearooms on Sauchiehall Street, and the House for an Art Lover represent the full range of his achievement across two decades of extraordinary productivity. No British architect of his era left a body of work more immediately recognisable or more consistently rewarding to study in detail — which is precisely what our models allow you to do.

The other two buildings hold their own. Charlotte Square in Edinburgh, designed by Robert Adam in 1791, is the finest example of Georgian urban planning in Scotland — a composition of such restraint and authority that it remains the benchmark for the New Town's architectural character. The Beach Ballroom in Aberdeen, completed in 1926, is an exuberant Art Deco set piece on the North Sea coast, its interior as lavish as its seaside setting demands.