Martin Creed: Work 1059
Dark, dingy and decaying, a turn down Edinburgh’s notorious Scotsman Steps has, in recent years, provided luckless souls racing for a train with the Scots equivalent of Dante’s descent through the nine circles of Hell. Spiralling down from the old Scotsman newspaper building on North Bridge in a symphony of robust Victorian stonework, this fast-track conduit, built in 1899, between the mediaeval Old Town above and what was then the wrought-iron modernity of the newly refurbished Waverley Station below, was a public-spirited enterprise by newspaper owner JR Findlay that went, over the course of a century, from public artery to public urinal.
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