Following on from my post recently about TV shows raising awareness of architecture in young people, schoolchildren in Edinburgh are being encouraged to take note of the buildings around them. The Looking Up! project is a five week programme that take high school students around the Old and New Towns of Edinburgh examining the architecture and the changes over time.

Following this tour, the children are then to design their own building that ideally should complement existing structures. The programme then concludes with a talk from an existing architect and an awards ceremony that gives the students the chance to showcase their designs in front of an audience of friends and parents.