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  • 01 THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT BUILDING
    Architects Eric Miralles and RMSM were winners of the international competition to design a building for the new Scottish Parliament in the late nineties. Eric Miralles died before construction was completed.
  • 02 THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT BUILDING
    From the start of construction in 1999 to the opening by Queen Elizabeth in 2004, and later, it was a controversial project.
  • 03 THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT BUILDING
    Its location, design, construction problems and delays and a cost increase from an estimated £40 million to a final £414 million prompted a spectrum of condemnation and praise.
  • 04 THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT BUILDING
    It is not a building to prompt a neutral response. The organisation of its individual forms is complex. There are contrast between smooth concrete and intricate detailing in other materials. In parts a rhythm is created through the repetition of similar forms.
  • 05 THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT BUILDING
    There is a sense of the fortress about the building but with public access through passages and under canopies on the periphery. The stepped and wild-grassed area to the southeast suggests an outdoor parliament or theatre.
  • 06 THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT BUILDING
    Dry summer weather has bleached the grass roofing some low structures to the east.
  • 07 THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT BUILDING
    The pale and finely finished concrete surfaces look well new, but will time and weather disfigure as they have in nearby late twentieth century buildings?
  • 08 THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT BUILDING
    This canopy to the east is aesthetic rather than a practical protection from the elements.
  • 09 THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT BUILDING
    The bollards and curving frontage flank a pedestrian entrance from Canongate.
  • 10 THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT BUILDING
    Part of the internal massing of the design carries barred and solid abstract forms seemingly without function.
  • 11 THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT BUILDING
    Contemporary and traditional forms and materials are combined in the complex design.
  • 12 THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT BUILDING
    A restored building is incorporated into the northern perimeter.
  • 13 THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT BUILDING
    The south-west corner combines austere block forms with flat protective barriers.
  • 14 THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT BUILDING
    The constant changes of form and the contrast of simplicity and detail are stimulating.
  • 15 THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT BUILDING
    Abstractions stand against a clear, cool Scottish sky.
  • 16 THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT BUILDING
    Protected by tall concrete panels, a stack of windows project from the western façade.
  • 17 THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT BUILDING
    A projecting window forms a compact sitting area for each of the parliamentarian's rooms.
  • 18 THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT BUILDING
    Another abstraction set against a dark sky. When Parliament is adjourned, visitors can see a bravura display of engineering and woodworking in the Debating Chamber.

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