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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdomen_US
dc.coverage.temporal1999-2004 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorMiralles, Enricen_US
dc.date1999-2004en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-01-18T19:44:57Z
dc.date.available2013-01-18T19:44:57Z
dc.date.issued1999-2004en_US
dc.identifier185156en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 1844en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/92381
dc.descriptionTower Buildings (left), context view looking northeast; Enric Miralles Moya (1955-July 3, 2000) was a Spanish Catalan architect. Miralles' largest work, the new Scottish Parliament Building, was unfinished at the time of his death. The new Scottish Parliament Building brought together [previously separated] elements into one purpose built parliamentary complex, housing 129 MSPs and more than 1,000 staff and civil servants. Despite criticisms and a mixed public reaction, the building was welcomed by architectural academics and critics. The building aims to conceive a poetic union between the Scottish landscape, its people, its culture and the city of Edinburgh. This approach won the parliament building numerous awards including the 2005 Stirling Prize and has been described as "a tour de force of arts and crafts and quality without parallel in the last 100 years of British architecture" The Scottish Parliament Building was designed with a number of sustainability features in mind. A minimum of 80% of the electricity purchased for the building is required to come from renewable sources and solar panels on the Canongate Building are used for heating water in the complex. Some of the concrete floors are further cooled in summer by water from 25 metres (80 ft) deep bore holes. The building achieves the highest rating in the Building Research Establishment's Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM). Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 6/22/2009)en_US
dc.format.mediumsteel; glass; granite; oaken_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectarchitectural exteriorsen_US
dc.subjectcontemporary (1960 to present)en_US
dc.subjectArchitecture and energy conservationen_US
dc.subjectSustainable buildingsen_US
dc.subjectGreen architectureen_US
dc.subjectTwenty-first centuryen_US
dc.titleScottish Parliament Building [complex]en_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A1-ME-PB-D2en_US
vra.culturalContextScottish (Scots)en_US
vra.techniqueconstruction (assembling)en_US
vra.worktypelegislative buildingen_US
vra.worktypeoffice buildingen_US
vra.worktypeauditoriumen_US
dc.contributor.displayEnric Miralles (Spanish architect, 1955-2000)en_US


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