The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh mentioned in the last entry was begun in 1872 by the architect David Bryce, and finished in 1879. Bryce was an architect from Edinburgh and worked in the Scottish Baronial Style, which is evident by the use of historicism. Large towers and robust facades are features much used. It was seen as the most modern hospital building in Europe at the time, and was based on a pavillion model favoured by Florence Nightingale. This meant that several wings stretched out from the mid part of the building and several free standing buildings around these to accommodate different specialisations of medicine.

The hospital was at the time built in the outskirts of Edinburgh, with the vast park landscape, the Meadows, a former loch, bordering to it. With the awareness of hygiene it was perfectly situated.

It was remodelled and adapted to the new technologies of medicine for a long time, but in 2002 it was closed. Many of the smaller buildings, and later additions have now been demolished and between the main building and the free standing buildings near the Meadows, large glass complexes have been erected, and the old hospital being transformed into luxury apartments (with glass balconies!!!). Fortunately as they are luxury apartments, the room heights have been kept and it being a historically important building, no interference of the facade have been made, except the glass balconies, which as a matter of fact replaced ugly storage rooms incerted, yes in the main facade, in the 1960s, still there on the unfinished north facades.