Robert Adam (architect, born 1948)

Robert Adam FRIAS (born 1948) is a Driehaus Architecture Prize winning British architect, urban designer and author, known for championing classical and traditional styles.

[1] Adam was appointed master-planner of Edinburgh Forthside in which capacity he designed streetscapes of low-rise buildings in Leith and Granton.

[5] Adam prescribed strict design codes on the area's developers so that both modern and traditional architects could build alongside one another without clashing.

An octagonal tower marks the corner of the site and, at the upper levels, a colonnaded glass rooftop pavilion screens the plant rooms.

Each façade is detailed to reflect the character of that street and the design incorporates cast bronze column capitals by classical sculptor, Alexander Stoddart.

Entrance to the Bodleian Art, Archaeology and Ancient World Library designed by Robert Adam.
Ashley Park in Hampshire, photo by Paul Barker
198-202 Piccadilly, London, photo by Morley von Sternberg