Feelings always run high with the mention of the Holyrood project, but it's the under-hand way in which our
Ministers have run the whole thing that gets me! Why oh why are Ministers running a construction programme??? If you were getting new windows or building an extemnsion you wouldn't call in a team of anally retentive lawyers and accountants that consider themselves "
leaders of men"!
This aint there jobs and thats why the Scottish Parliament has become such a joke. For a Civil Servant to come up with an apocraphyl figure of £40million for a building of such status is simply laughable... £40million would just about get you a Buchannan Galleries and a couple of Parkhead Forge's!
So alright, the Parliament design isn't to everyones taste; we're all Scottish! We're a funny bunch, sometimes frigid and secular in our opinions; but we're good with it
I myself, thought the inspiration of up-turned boats was to look like a collection of barnacles strewn over the Holyrood site, and I was, Im embarassed to say, a bit outraged that a Spanish architect should have been chosen to design the place.
Having seen 2 of the other entries since,however, I think it was the right decision! And he practically was Scottish: a Catalan with an alcohol problem!
Have you all checked out the website?
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/holyrood/pip-00.htm
This is the entrance foyer... I think its quite nice?