Holyrood Road, Edinburgh · 55.951° N, 3.174° W
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The 1999 science centre: a white fabric roof hung from eight masts over glazed exhibition halls, a stone terrace on the old Holyrood brewery site and a York stone amphitheatre facing Holyrood Road. Modelled to scale with the ground 50 m around it.
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Michael Hopkins and Partners · engineers Ove Arup and Partners · opened July 1999
81 × 36 mFabric canopy
22.4 mMast heads above the terrace
13 mHighest point of the fabric
11 tiersStone seating, 5.0 m rise
Measured from the Scottish Public Sector LiDAR, Phase 5 (2020–21, 50 cm grid, Open Government Licence v3.0): the ground, the canopy's shape, the mast heads and cable ring, the terrace, seating, stage and mound, the Scottish Parliament's and other neighbours' roof forms and heights, and 171 trees. Drawn from the architects' plan and photographs, fitted to the LiDAR: the masts' feet, the four glazed trusses and their ring posts, the glass hall, the dome, the stairs, the stage wall, the flights and planters, the brewery wall's windows and turret. Estimated: the trusses' exact outline, glazing and window patterns (Parliament included), most cables below the mast heads, sizes inside the hall, positions of the globe sign and standing stones, and the colours of materials. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
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