The Scotsman

Charles Jencks has already made his mark on Scotland's architecture, having commissioned Frank Gehry to design the series of Maggie's Centres, constructed to care for cancer victims and their families, as a living testament to his late wife, Maggie Keswick. He has also put his stamp on its landscape. The 3,000sq m garden sculpture he created at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh, Landform Ueda, is a leading contender for the £100,000 Gulbenkian award for Museum of the Year, with the winner announced next week. But with the help of Scottish Coal, the American architect's next landscape project could be his largest endeavour yet. Jencks has been drawing up conceptual ideas to reshape the environments of two open-cast coal mines. One is the Damside mine near Shotts and Allanton in North Lanarkshire, but the other is still to be named.