{"id":22769,"date":"2019-05-25T16:01:30","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T15:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=22769"},"modified":"2019-05-24T17:25:30","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T16:25:30","slug":"cockburn-association-survey-ten-buildings-that-define-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=22769","title":{"rendered":"Cockburn Association survey: \u2018Ten Buildings that Define Edinburgh\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16564 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Edinburgh-Skyline-courtesy-of-Fiona-Newton-e1504286862516.png\" alt=\"building roofs\" width=\"250\" height=\"158\" \/>The Ten Buildings project was created by the The Cockburn Association to foster a healthy debate on what truly defines Edinburgh\u2019s history, as it asks \u2018What are your ten buildings?\u2019<\/h3>\n<h6><em>image: Fiona Newton<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Cockburn Association writes:<\/p>\n<p>While the list below will almost certainly be contested, that discussion is exactly this project\u2019s intended purpose. The objective is not to create a perfect list of Edinburgh buildings but instead to promote a discussion that will hopefully energize people to reflect on their city as well as garner their interest in it, and the Cockburn\u2019s work. Ten buildings are not nearly enough to cover the vast and intricate history of Edinburgh, but we believe this list creates a broad framework through which further projects can be based. What are your ten buildings?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>St Margaret\u2019s Chapel<\/li>\n<li>Gladstone\u2019s Land<\/li>\n<li>City Chambers<\/li>\n<li>University of Edinburgh: Old College<\/li>\n<li>Baron Ord\u2019s House: 8 Queen Street<\/li>\n<li>Suburban Villas<\/li>\n<li>Victorian Tenements<\/li>\n<li>Bungalows<\/li>\n<li>Cables Wynd<\/li>\n<li>Museum of Scotland<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information about the buildings selected and about the Cockburn Association <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cockburnassociation.org.uk\/uploads\/Ten%20Buildings%20that%20Define%20Edinburgh.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">download the PDF<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ten Buildings project was created by the The Cockburn Association to foster a healthy debate on what truly defines Edinburgh\u2019s history, as it asks \u2018What are your ten buildings?\u2019 image: Fiona Newton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22770,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22769\/revisions\/22770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}