'Our hotel will breach the skyline, and a jolly good thing too'

摘要

Richard Murphy Architects, which is masterplanning Edinburgh's Haymarket site, is also responsible for its most controversial aspect, the 17-storey hotel which last week provoked Unesco to call for a halt to its construction. Here its director defends the project. Richard Murphy: It's no big deal to me. Virtually every building I've done in Edinburgh has been subject to campaigns to stop it happening. I've now got an incredibly thick skin about it and I just laugh.