06 ottobre 2005
Holyrood
£25,000 architecture prize, most of it paid by Executive, goes to... Holyrood
LAURA ROBERTS
THE £431 million Scottish Parliament building was yesterday awarded the country's most prestigious architectural prize. The controversial Holyrood building in Edinburgh, designed by the Spaniard Enric Miralles, had been on a shortlist of five for the Andrew Doolan Award for Architecture from the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS).
But critics expressed concern that £15,000 of the £25,000 prize money had been given by the Scottish Executive and questioned if it was likely that any other building could have won. Douglas Read, the RIAS president and chairman of the judging panel, said the judges had been determined to view the parliament as "architecture not as scandal", adding: "Here is a building shrouded in controversy, one which provokes strong reactions from everyone."
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£25,000 architecture prize, most of it paid by Executive, goes to... Holyrood LAURA ROBERTS
THE £431 million Scottish Parliament building was yesterday awarded the country's most prestigious architectural prize. The controversial Holyrood building in Edinburgh, designed by the Spaniard Enric Miralles, had been on a shortlist of five for the Andrew Doolan Award for Architecture from the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS).
But critics expressed concern that £15,000 of the £25,000 prize money had been given by the Scottish Executive and questioned if it was likely that any other building could have won. Douglas Read, the RIAS president and chairman of the judging panel, said the judges had been determined to view the parliament as "architecture not as scandal", adding: "Here is a building shrouded in controversy, one which provokes strong reactions from everyone."
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