Tour Scotland video of the exterior of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art on visit to Edinburgh, Scotland. This building was designed by William Burn, born 20th December 1789, died 15th February 1870. He was a Scottish architect, pioneer of the Scottish Baronial style. He was born in Edinburgh, the son of architect Robert Burn, and educated at the Royal High School. After training with the architect of the British Museum, Sir Robert Smirke, he returned to Edinburgh in 1812. Here he established a practice from the family builders' yard. In 1841, he took on a pupil, David Bryce, with whom he later went into partnership. From 1844 he worked in London, where he took on his nephew John Macvicar Anderson as a partner. He designed John Watson's Hospital Institute now the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh in 1828.
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