The Scotsman

From the moment the shortlist for this year's RIAS Scottish Building of the Year Award was announced, the small structure called An Turas on the island of Tiree was regarded by many as the favourite to win. Variously described as a shelter, a folly (in the 18th-century landscape design meaning of the word) and a gazebo, the work was in fact the result of a collaboration between two of Scotland's finest young architects and a group of leading artists, none of whom had a specific end result in mind at the beginning of the process.