# Cables Wynd House, The Concrete Crescent: Leith’s Legendary "Banana Flats"

- Published: 2026-07-19
- Topic: Architecture Stories
- Source: Architectural Icons Stories by Securex

To look upon Cables Wynd House is to confront post-war architectural optimism at its most heroic, uncompromising, and sculptural. Rising above the historic, fiercely independent port district of Leith in Edinburgh, this sweeping, ten-storey brutalist megastructure does not merely sit within the landscape-it commands it

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