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The Burns Monument Centre, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire
And a close-up of the statue of Robert Burns
This shows the changes to the access roads and the car parking area.
The photo below shows how well the building is shaped to protect the little that remains of the original monument.
A wider view. The plan is to take this again when the gardens are finished and bedded in.
Update - they're still in exactly the same condition over two years later, so that's another good idea gone wrong.
That said, the place was locked up and the car park closed off on a holiday Monday so as a tourist attraction it's not pulling its weight.
This closer view also lets you see how it would look if it wasn't for the edited-out air conditioning system and odd-coloured door to the right of the statue.
/Gripe Mode ON/
Some day architects will design buildings to look good from the air and not just from ground level. Yeah, right.
/Gripe Mode OFF/
This gives you a view of the statue in more detail, taken from ground level. This is the view of the statue that the original artist in 1879 (William Grant Stevenson RSA, 1849-1919, of Edinburgh) intended people to have, that of looking up from below.
Photographs taken at the same level as the statue, looking directly at it or even from slightly above, are not going to show it to its best advantage.
There are other castings of this same statue around the world - some found on the web are:
Burns Triangle, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
City Park, Denver, Colorado, USA
and Garfield Park, Chicago, Illinois, USA
and there is also said to be a copy in Wellington, New Zealand,
but although a smaller version can be seen at Burns Cottage in Alloway there seem to be no other full-sized castings in the UK.
The full-sized images available to clients are about 70 times the size of the images shown here
and as you would expect they show a great deal more detail than the .jpg website versions.
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