Bidding war opens to decide the future of Edinburgh’s Royal High School

The city landmark and masterpiece of Greek revival style, empty for more than 50 years, could be a place of learning againWhen renowned Scottish architect Thomas Hamilton set about designing a home for Edinburgh’s Royal High School in the early 1800s, he cemented the city’s reputation as an “Athens of the North” with a Greek revival building still considered one of Europe’s finest.But despite being widely lauded and variously floated as a home for the Scottish parli