Scottish Parliament

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[Sandra]

Porty

There will be full guided tours which will cost money or you can do your own tour, so there is a choice for everyone.

[ras]

New to the porty site, but think I have got the gist of this topic.

General concensus seems to be great building, pity about the occupants..

..personally I think it is a disgrace that such an important building (architecturally) is wasted on them. My hope is that someone of some stature in politics will come along soon and relieve us of this parochial mentality that Scottish politics currently has. Otherwise the building should be handed over to a more worthy cause - an art college /architecture school perhaps.

I believe the massive cost and time overruns generally can be attributed to the occupants changing thier mind. Apparently we are in to the 10's of thousands of changes since going on site.

If I was cynical I would suggest that there has been a deliberate ploy from some the occupants to ensure a cost/time overrun to gain political ground.
However I don't think they are clever enough.

Looking forward to getting my tour of what [u]will[/u] be an iconic building for Scotland even if the politicians are a laughing stock.

[Sandra]

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[Poppy]

Read in the Indy [or maybe the Hootsmon] that the building of the houses of parliament in London, England was something like 14 years late, 700% over budget and both architects dead before it was finished.

Plus ca change plus c'est la meme chose!

[wangi]

Must have been the Independant - nothing like that could have some out of the Scotsman!

[ras]

..... also the new offices for our westminster chums built a couple of years ago cost a similar figure to our new parliament, but no-one batted an eyelid.


.... admittedly they did get a new underground station as well.

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[wangi]

[wangi]

I took a lot of shots today - inside, outside, and from the Crags of the parliament building:

http://www.pbase.com/wangi/parliament

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