The Scotsman

The reviews of the new Scottish parliament building in the professional architecture press have - with minor qualifications - been overwhelmingly positive. None, however, has seen fit to mention the art bedecking the interior walls of the building. Indeed, what is uniformly remarkable about those reviews is their focus on the artistry of the architecture itself. Never has the word "poetry" been used so much in the analysis of a building. Ellis Woodman, writing in Building Design, summed up Miralles's designs as "uncommon poetry". For Neil Gillespie in the Architect's Journal, the building represents an act of imagination bringing together "politics and poetry". For Deyan Sudjic in Architecture in Scotland, it is a "delicately wrought romantic poem". And the Guardian's Jonathan Glancey was moved to describe the structure as "magical".