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The parliament appointed a new body – the Scottish parliament Corporate Body, a cross-party group chaired by Sir David Steel – to act as client. The SPCB then proceeded to tear up the brief. The body ...
Once the parliament was elected in May 1999, Donald Dewar handed over responsibility for the building project to the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body, chaired by presiding officer Sir David ...
It had been widely expected that the Old Royal High School building on Calton Hill would house the new Parliament, but there were reportedly concerns within Labour that it had become too ...
In 1997, the estimate for a new Scottish Parliament building is put at no more than £40million. The building was finished in 2004, three years behind schedule and vastly over budget.
The story of the Scottish Parliament building can be mapped onto an episode of Grand Designs. It started in 1998 with a budget of £50 million. Two years later that had more than doubled, and the ...
The Scottish Parliament has been crowned the world’s ugliest and most despised building in a new poll. The list, curated by Buildworld, identified the ‘most maligned buildings in the world ...
Restoration of Queensberry House, the 17th century mansion house incorporated into the new Scottish Parliament, was blamed for much of the increased costs of the Holyrood building project.
The 1997 vote for Scottish Devolution meant a new parliament was needed, but its birth was, to put it mildly, a car crash. Ten times over budget and years behind schedule, Holyrood’s ...
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