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When the boat comes in

Archiseek / UK / Scotland / News / 2003 / October 5

The An Turas shelter in Tiree, designed by a collaboration of Scottish architects and artists, is one of the most beautiful new buildings in Britain. It is one of the contenders, if an unlikely one, for this year's Stirling prize. Whether it wins or not hardly matters, for this haunting and elemental structure seems set to take its place alongside the island's Iron-Age standing stones as a thing not of fleeting fashion but of all-but-timeless history.

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