We went to Edinburgh for the building’s opening in September.
The whole family.
Damien and I and Rose and Thomas, who at nearly two approached the world with the considered patience of someone who had decided to understand it before commenting on it, which was very much his father’s approach and not any less charming for the resemblance.
Callum and Petra and Anna. Callum’s whole life in a Thursday morning flight from Vancouver.
The cultural centre was on a street that had the particular quality of Edinburgh streets, old stone and contemporary intention coexisting in the way of places that have been built and rebuilt enough times to understand that the layers are the point.
The building’s opening was attended by people who worked in the specific territory it served, artists and communi
