{"id":1992,"date":"2016-04-04T12:34:07","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T12:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/scranblog\/?p=1992"},"modified":"2016-04-05T14:23:02","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T14:23:02","slug":"366-days-of-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/scranblog\/2016\/04\/04\/366-days-of-architecture\/","title":{"rendered":"366 Days of Architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"
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1938 Crazy House by Thomas Tait the Architect-in-Chief of the Empire Exhibition<\/p><\/div>\n

What do Elvis Presley, Toad of Toad Hall, Dennis the Menace, the residents of Ramsay Street, World Maths Day, coming-of-age film \u2018The Breakfast Club\u2019, and Scottish architects William Playfair, Basil Spence and Archibald Simpson have in common?<\/p>\n

They all feature in the entries of \u2018366 Days of Architecture\u2019<\/a><\/strong>, a project that every day comes up with an image in the national record, Canmore, that relates to a fact specific to that day.\u00a0 It\u2019s one of Historic Environment Scotland<\/strong>\u2019s contributions to the 2016 Festival of Architecture<\/a><\/strong>, for the Scottish Government\u2019s Year of Architecture, Innovation and Design.\u00a0 And it\u2019s happening every day this year.<\/p>\n

The image of the day can tie in with any associated event and demonstrates that diversity of digitised images in Canmore.\u00a0 The whole year has already been pretty much mapped out and related events include anniversaries, birthdays, sporting competitions, the signs of the zodiac and saints\u2019 days. The big names in Scottish architecture all feature in the project, along with links to their entries in the Dictionary of Scottish Architects.\u00a0 Similarly, images connected to non-architectural historic events, current sporting championships and popular culture also crop up throughout the calendar.\u00a0Social media is very much at the heart of \u2018366 Days of Architecture\u2019 and staff from the Communications team and Architecture and Industry section of the HES Survey and Recording group have been working together to deliver the project.\u00a0 The daily image is tweeted on the twitter feed @rcahms, with a link to Canmore.<\/p>\n

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Proposed designed of Usher Hall, Edinburgh.<\/p><\/div>\n

Neil Gregory, Operational Manager for Architecture and Industry, and curator of January and March\u2019s entries to date said: \u2018The great thing about Canmore is that it features buildings that connect with anybody and everybody. Architecture has a place in everyone\u2019s lives and buildings form a backdrop to every tangible cultural event. We hope that 366 Days of Architecture will bring new audiences to Canmore, entertain our current users and the wider public who enjoy using Twitter<\/em>\u2019<\/p>\n

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Usher Hall set up for Eurovision 1972<\/p><\/div>\n

He added: \u2018The great thing about the project is that there are always bags of images, film clips and sound snippets in Scran<\/a><\/strong> so we\u2019ve had great fun finding complementary material on the Scran website. An event like the 1972 Eurovision Song Contest<\/a><\/strong> that took place at the Usher Hall<\/a><\/strong> in Edinburgh gives us a chance to showcase 1910 designs for the building that were never realised on Canmore and pictures of the contest happening that are held within Scran<\/em>\u2019<\/p>\n

Clare Sorensen, Architecture and Industry Projects Manager, and curator of February and April\u2019s entries to date added: \u2018The project is a real showcase for the historic collections that we care for here at HES as well as the sheer variety of buildings that we have recorded as part of our survey projects. We\u2019ve so far featured buildings recorded in the early 20th<\/sup> century in RCAHMS\u2019 infancy as well as sites that we\u2019ve investigated in the last few months as part of the new organisation<\/em>\u2019<\/p>\n

‘366 Days of Architecture\u2019 can be accessed via the daily tweet from @rcahms<\/a><\/strong> or directly from the front page of Canmore<\/strong><\/a>. To find out more about what\u2019s happening in the Festival of Architecture<\/strong><\/a>, including other HES contributions, check out https:\/\/www.foa2016.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Images \u00a9\u00a0Scottish Exhibitions Study Group,\u00a0Crown Copyright: Historic Environment Scotland, The Scotsman<\/strong>\u00a0|\u00a0<\/strong>Licensor Scran<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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