(507)  SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT WINS ARCHITECTURE PRIZE

 

The Scottish Parliament building at Holyrood was awarded the Royal Institute of British Architects’ Stirling Prize on 15 October 2005.   The prize, named after Sir James Stirling, one of the most acclaimed of 20th-century architects, is awarded annually for the building that has made the greatest contribution to British architecture in the past year.  The judges spoke of a series of extraordinary spaces and their changing effects” (no