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Cables Wynd House: Exterior
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Cables Wynd House: Exterior · Cables Wynd House, also known as the Banana Flats, in Leith, Scotland
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Housing · Brutalism

Cables Wynd House

Alison & Hutchison & Partners · Edinburgh, GB · 1965

Key featuresThe 'Banana Flats': a long curved slab of 212 deck-access flats over ten storeys in Leith; Category A listed.

Architect
Alison & Hutchison & Partners
Place
Edinburgh, GB
Year
1965
Typology
Housing
Movement
Brutalism
Region
Europe
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