The Sunday Herald

“Miralles had a mercurial temperament and had issues [about the project management of Holyrood], there's no two ways about it. But I'm sure Michelangelo had issues about the Sistine Chapel, so one has to make certain allowances for that. There was an issue there, but whether it had an effect on the end result, I'm not so sure.” So mused one well-informed source after last week's revelations at the Fraser Inquiry about the actions of Catalan architect Enric Miralles and his early involvement in designing the new Scottish parliament building at Holyrood. Perhaps the tone was set by Miralles's response to being awarded the contract: he took a break, and the Barcelona office of his EMBT firm closed for the entire month of August,1998. Very Spanish.