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Scottish Parliament Building
The Scottish Parliament Building is a purpose-built parliamentary complex at Holyrood in Edinburgh, housing the devolved Scottish Parliament. It is a low-rise campus of interlocking concrete, stone and timber volumes with distinctive curved metal roofs and landscaped turf ramps, completed and opened in 2004.
Its prime
2004
Today
Still standing
As it stood in 2004
What Scottish Parliament Building looked like in its prime.
A compact campus of interlocking low buildings in pale cast concrete, red-brown timber cladding and curtain glazing, capped by irregular pale metal roofs shaped like upturned boats and leaf forms. Turf-covered concrete "branches" slope away from the buildings into planted wildflower lawns. A paved forecourt with shallow geometric water basins, flagpoles and timber-latticed canopy fronts the main public entrance. Windows are varied in scale and shape; materials include oak and sycamore joinery and local stone floors.
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10 places to explore in 2004.
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