AN EDINBURGH bus shelter has been honoured at the prestigious Royal Fine Art Commission Trust’s building awards.
The £50,000 shelter in Lochside Crescent, Edinburgh Park, which was designed by the Edinburgh-based Reiach & Hall, was named the winner of the Jeu d’Esprit award at a ceremony in the Savoy Hotel in London yesterday. More than three metres tall and nine metres long, and with seats, the shelter is made from stainless steel and glass and is layered in verse. The poems are changed periodically, with the current series being by Robert Fergusson, the poet who inspired Robert Burns. Earlier this year the shelter was inspected by the judges including Lord St John of Fawsley, the chairman of the trust, and Anne Heseltine, the wife of the former Conservative deputy prime minister. The Jeu d’Espirit award was created in 1994 when it was awarded to Piers Gough’s small toilet in Bayswater.
