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Our best building? You may just be living in it

Archiseek / UK / Scotland / News / 2007 / October 3

A housing development is a surprise contender for the title of Scotland's best building, it was revealed yesterday. The Princess Gate estate in Edinburgh, whose 17 terraced houses and six flats overlooking the Pentland Hills were designed along straight, modernist lines by leading Scottish architect Malcolm Fraser, is on the shortlist for the 2007 Andrew Doolan Award. An arts centre in Orkney, a school for disabled students in Glasgow and the Maggie's cancer centre in Fife, designed by Zaha Hadid, are also in the running. The competition, organised by the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS), is usually won by showcase buildings commissioned for businesses, local councils or the arts. The Scottish Parliament is among past winners. The £2.37 million Princess Gate development, built by Bryant Homes on the site of the former Princess Margaret Rose Hospital, is a response to a long-standing complaint that housing developers have relied on unimaginative or uninspiring designs.

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