Nothing new

2005-11-04T00:00:00

It is indicative of today’s architecture that a building so high on whimsy and that cost a bomb contains not a single piece of commissioned art worthy of mention. The architect’s ego has to be ever present everywhere. This passes for “poetry”.And the Scottish Parliament building’s much-vaunted originality could only ...

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