Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 9: Scottish Parliament Building [complex]

Preferred Title:	Scottish Parliament Building [complex]
Image View:	Frontal view of the canopy, looking northwest
Creator:	Enric Miralles (Spanish architect, 1955-2000)
Location:	site: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
GPS:	+55.952064-3.175182
Date:	1999-2004 (creation)
Cultural Context:	Scottish (Scots)
Style Period:	Twenty-first century
Work Type 1:	legislative building
Work Type 2:	office building
Work Type 3:	auditorium
Classification:	architecture
Material:	steel; glass; granite; oak
Technique:	construction (assembling)
Measurements:	312,000 ft2 (total floor area)
Subjects:	architectural exteriors; contemporary (1960 to present); Architecture and energy conservation; Sustainable buildings; Green architecture; canopy
Description:	Enric Miralles Moya (1955-July 3, 2000) was a Spanish Catalan architect. Miralles' largest work, the new Scottish Parliament Building, was unfinished at the time of his death. The new Scottish Parliament Building brought together [previously separated] elements into one purpose built parliamentary complex, housing 129 MSPs and more than 1,000 staff and civil servants. Despite criticisms and a mixed public reaction, the building was welcomed by architectural academics and critics. The building aims to conceive a poetic union between the Scottish landscape, its people, its culture and the city of Edinburgh. This approach won the parliament building numerous awards including the 2005 Stirling Prize and has been described as "a tour de force of arts and crafts and quality without parallel in the last 100 years of British architecture" The Scottish Parliament Building was designed with a number of sustainability features in mind. A minimum of 80% of the electricity purchased for the building is required to come fr
Collection:	Archivision Addition Module Four
Identifier:	1A1-ME-PB-B14
Rights:	© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.