The David Hume Tower is part of the University of Edinburgh’s city centre campus and is located at the south-east corner of George Square. George Square is notable for not only being the first planned square in Edinburgh, but for being the first real suburban development outside of the city’s southern wall – predating the development of Edinburgh’s New Town, which immediately eclipsed it. Despite its apparent solidity it is a rickety building – not only does it move in the wind but the wind whistles through the building in a frankly rather terrifying manner.

Designed by Catalan architect Enric Miralles, the Scottish Parliament has won a number of architectural awards, including the 2005 Stirling Prize.

The Scottish Parliament is (by some degree) the most incoherent building I have ever seen. Renowned postmodernist Charles Jencks described it as “quite a meal” – faint praise indeed. A very strange mix of post-modernism, brutalism and vernacular architecture, individual bits of the building are spectacular, but the whole is little more than a regurgitated mass of juxtapositions and alien iconographies.

A small cloud against the harsh straight lines of a faux modernist office building, Cowgate, Edinburgh.

Detail of a metal flower that is part of the East Gate of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh.

Detail of the stripes on the back of a Grevy’s zebra at the Edinburgh Zoo.

A typical Bermudian chimney against a blue sky.

Itmar Esteban Herraiz – riding for Catalonia – beats Dutch rider Yondi Schmidt in a sprint at an international track cycling meet at the Meadowbank Velodrome in Edinburgh.

A pace motorcycle goes around a banked turn at the velodrome in Edinburgh.

Don’t stop for anything that gets in the way of your dreams.

Car bonnet badge from a rather dirty Bentley, Morningside, Edinburgh.