Comments on: Scottish Parliament Building, Edinburgh

By: Jack

Jack — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:19:14 +0000

That piece of crap cost us £414mil?

By: Jel

Jel — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:02:10 +0000

The European Parliament building in Brussels has been nicknamed after a French soft cheese named "Le Caprice des Dieux", the Whim of the Gods, as both are the same shape. Given that there's no marks for the obvious obscene suggestion in the case of this building, any ideas what to call the Scottish Parliament?

By: 9gods

9gods — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 23:14:10 +0000

I live nearby parliament

By: Izzy

Izzy — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:33:06 +0000

Overbudget and ugly. I wonder what the architect was going through when they made that design, and I wonder who picked it…

Doesn’t fit in with the rest of Edinburgh’s fantastic architecture (Appleton Tower aside) at all.

By: Loz

Loz — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:51:41 +0000

no mention of how horrifically over budget it was…

By: Mrb

Mrb — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:29:37 +0000

A bit lazy using second hand articles isn’t it! Only joking Alex, I thought you might have included the Falkirk Wheel in the Scotland.org tour though. A pretty impressive piece of engineering.

http://www.197aerial.co.uk/falkirk_wheel.htm

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:45:40 +0000

Thanks Romanov – that should be it fixed now.

By: Romanov

Romanov — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:48:39 +0000

Looks like a cool building!
PS: Is it me, or do the links in the text all go to “not that zoomed in” views of the building?