It's Britain's finest new building, but is it worth Ł400m of anyone's money?

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Archiseek / UK / Scotland / News / 2004 / June 13

It is an open question whose judgment will be heard first on the new Scottish Parliament building. The Queen, it can safely be assumed, will be politely enthusiastic in October when she opens the building on its astonishingly beautiful parkland site under the sheer rock walls of Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh; Lord Fraser of Carmyllie, it can equally safely be assumed, will not be. Fraser, the thickset former Lord Advocate with the jowly demeanour of a gangland enforcer, says it will take as long as it takes for him to finish his report after a year-long public inquiry into what he describes with studied, but unconvincing, impartiality as the building's 'apparent' cost overrun.

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