Castle Terrace Car Park

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Castle Terrace Car Park is a Brutalist-style car park in Edinburgh. It was designated a listed building in October 2019 and sits opposite Argyle House on Castle Terrace. The site opened in 1964 and was completed around 1966, making it the first modern multistorey car park in Scotland and an early European example of the continuous ramp design. It has stayed largely unchanged since 1966 and was designed to avoid blocking views of Edinburgh Castle. Commissioned by the Edinburgh Corporation, it was designed and built by Kinnear & Gordon and T. Waller Marwick & Associates between 1959 and 1966, with the ramp inspired by a 1958 car park in Nyropsgade, Copenhagen. The car park also features in the film T2 Trainspotting.