Architecture award for Scottish Parliament
The Scottish Parliament Building has won the Royal Institute of British Architects’ Stirling Prize. Bit of a surprise as a library in Brighton and Foster’s McLaren Centre were favourites to win.
I could bang on about the four hundred and thirty fucking one million pounds that the building cost, or the fact that it took it three years longer to build that it should of...but it’s Sunday afternoon and the sun is shining. So instead I say well done - and I hope that the award helps bring lots of visitors to Ed, and I am glad we have a building that we can be proud of - pity about the contents.
posted by Digbeth D'Marriotti at 3:29 PM
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Even more surprising that it one given that the criteria for the Stirling prize is 'any work by a BRITISH architect, anywhere in the world'. The guy who designed this was Spanish (and now dead). Getting some local bunch of technicians to make his pretty pictures into something buildable doesn't mean it should qualify.
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