Do you know why that was?

Yeah, so there's lots of reasons why we look to the neoclassical.

Originally, Rome was seen as the centre of Europe, which is why you get so many leaders looking like ancient Romans, because they're harking back to rebuilding the Roman Empire.

So Napoleon is trying to do that.

Napoleon is trying to create, basically, a new European empire.

And so Roman architecture speaks of power and authority, which is kind of language of architecture.

What's interesting in Edinburgh is that we choose Greek revival specifically as opposed to just general neoclassical.

very popular.