Where?
Gleneagles Townhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland
Who?
Well-healed travellers and architecture aficionados will fit in well.
Why?
The mercantile confidence of Edinburgh’s New Town reached its climax in the 1840s with the swagger of this magnificent former bank on St Andrew Square. But how do you convert what resembles a fragment of imperial Rome into a contemporary townhouse hotel—especially one that has to follow in the footsteps of a fêted sibling?
'How do you convert what resembles a fragment of imperial Rome into a contemporary townhouse hotel?'
Gleneagles Townhouse has risen impressively to the challenge. The domed banking hall, with its gilded plasterwork and soaring granite columns, is now The Spence, a palatial
