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How did the Register House in Edinburgh fulfill an earlier idea from Syon House?
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Robert Adam
Robert Adam, oil painting by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
At the Register House in Edinburgh, Robert Adam realized a monumental architectural concept that he had originally envisaged for Syon House years earlier: the inclusion of a vast, domed hall within a square structure.1
While working on the interior redesign of Syon House in 1762, Adam had proposed filling the building's old center court with such a pantheon-like domed hall, though that specific plan was never executed at the time. He successfully brought this vision to fruition later in his career through the construction of the Register House between 1772 and 1792.21