fountainbridge library Archives - Alice Strang https://alicestrang.co.uk/tag/fountainbridge-library/ Modern and Contemporary Art Sun, 10 Nov 2024 16:33:56 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://alicestrang.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/cropped-alice_strang150925-32x32.jpg fountainbridge library Archives - Alice Strang https://alicestrang.co.uk/tag/fountainbridge-library/ 32 32 Spend November with Me! https://alicestrang.co.uk/spend-november-with-me/ Sun, 10 Nov 2024 16:33:55 +0000 https://alicestrang.co.uk/?p=1122 Spend November with Me!

Spend November with me and modern Scottish art and architecture! I will be taking part in a Wilhelmina Barns-Graham book launch, giving talks about Mabel Pryde Nicholson and Fountainbridge Library and will be contributing to…

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]]> 90 for 90: Fountainbridge Library and the Building Centre https://alicestrang.co.uk/90-for-90-fountainbridge-library-and-the-building-centre/ Thu, 23 Dec 2021 06:53:47 +0000 https://alicestrang.co.uk/?p=632 90 for 90: Fountainbridge Library and the Building Centre

I was delighted to be one of 90 industry experts invited to choose a building or public space, built within the past 90 years, to celebrate the opening of the Building Centre in 1931. It…

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]]> Fountainbridge Library: Building of the Month https://alicestrang.co.uk/fountainbridge-library-building-of-the-month/ Mon, 05 Oct 2020 13:16:36 +0000 https://alicestrang.co.uk/?p=355 Fountainbridge Library: Building of the Month

I am delighted that my feature about Fountainbridge Library (1937-40), Dundee Street, Edinburgh has just been published as October’s Twentieth-Century Society Building of the Month. Doors Open Days 2020 The feature discusses this rare and…

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]]> Opening Doors and Climbing Stairs at Fountainbridge Library https://alicestrang.co.uk/opening-doors-and-climbing-stairs-at-fountainbridge-library/ Fri, 25 Sep 2020 14:24:58 +0000 https://alicestrang.co.uk/?p=328 Opening Doors and Climbing Stairs at Fountainbridge Library

Fountainbridge Library, Dundee Street, Edinburgh is a rare example of modern Scottish architecture. Designed by John A. W. Grant (1886/7–1959) it was built between 1937 and 1940. It opened as a state-of-the-art library during the…

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