| dc.coverage.spatial | Site: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom | en_US |
| dc.coverage.temporal | 1934-1939 (creation) | en_US |
| dc.creator | Tait, Thomas S. | en_US |
| dc.date | 1934-1939 | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-09-17T19:02:18Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-09-17T19:02:18Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1934-1939 | en_US |
| dc.identifier | 234639 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | archrefid: 2567 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/142066 | |
| dc.description | Overall aerial view of the south facade with two projecting wings, looking northwest, away from Calton Hill; St. Andrew's House is the headquarters building of the Scottish Government. The requirement for the building arose as a result of a post World War I policy of limited transfer of devolved power to Scotland from London. It stands on the former site of Calton Jail. The building was designed by Thomas S. Tait of Burnet, Tait and Lorne, architects. (They worked separately on commissions.) Although Tait’s St. Andrew’s House was given a monumental treatment with giant symbolic figures (sculpted by Sir William Reid Dick) in response to its Neo-classical setting, Tait and Lorne’s designs generally followed the International idiom of long horizontal window-bands. Both had worked in the United States. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ (accessed 6/30/2012) | en_US |
| dc.format.medium | darney stone; glass | en_US |
| dc.rights | © Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc. | en_US |
| dc.subject | architecture | en_US |
| dc.subject | government | en_US |
| dc.subject | Streamline Moderne | en_US |
| dc.subject | International Style (modern European architecture style) | en_US |
| dc.subject | Twentieth century | en_US |
| dc.subject | Art Deco | en_US |
| dc.title | St. Andrew's House | en_US |
| dc.title.alternative | Saint Andrew's House | en_US |
| dc.type | image | en_US |
| dc.rights.access | Licensed for educational and research use by the MIT community only | en_US |
| dc.identifier.vendorcode | 1A1-TTS-SAH-A2 | en_US |
| vra.culturalContext | British Scottish (Scots) | en_US |
| vra.technique | construction (assembling), carving (processes) | en_US |
| vra.worktype | government office building | en_US |
| dc.contributor.display | Thomas S. Tait (British architect, 1882-1954) | en_US |
