This unbuilt proposalfor a gap site in Edinburgh's Old Town won the Royal Scottish Academy's gold medal in the summer exhibition of 1992. The designs, by Elder and Cannon, proposed residential apartments over ground floor commercial but retained, as required in the purchase, a pend access to the multi-storey carpark owned by the Scandic Crown Hotel.

With the economic recession the vender was bankrupted and the purchase did not proceed. This was unfortunate, as it would have been the first Edinburgh job for Elder and Cannon. Burrell were keen to shake up the Edinburgh establishment, dragging the design aspirationists to a higher level, and felt it needed a Glasgow firm to set the standard. It wasn't until Upper Strand in 2005 thet Elder and Cannon finally built in the east for Burrell.