A people's parliament built for our past - and future

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Archiseek / UK / Scotland / News / 2006 / February 25

The Scottish Parliament occupies a very special place - a UNESCO World Heritage site where the thousand years of Scotland's story in the Royal Mile fuses with the primeval landscape of Holyrood Park. Enric Miralles, the architect, was fond of taking a climb up the Radical Road. When Donald Dewar asked him in the early days where the best view of the new campus would be, he said: "Up there, on the Salisbury Crags." From the heights, Miralles's vision is clear. A parliament rooted in the land, and linked to the park by the long grass-covered tails stretching out towards it. But a parliament which is a continuum of the Royal Mile, an assembly of nooks and crannies and closes providing both public and private space.

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