Focus on The Scotsman Steps and explore the Reception and awards.
Overall response to the redesign has been positive, with Guardian art critic Jonathan Jones calling it "the best art at [2011's] Edinburgh Art Festival" and "a generous, modest masterpiece of contemporary public art". In Art Monthly, installation artist Vincent Martin wrote: "[a]s monuments to the global reach of empire go it is both appropriate and unobtrusive." Writing for the BBC in 2018, William Cook similarly described the redesigned steps as "magical, but supremely practical."In 2012, the Steps won the Scottish Design Award in the Regeneration category. Also in 2012, they were nominated for the RIAS Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland Award.
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