The £431 million question

Scotland’s iconic new parliament building cost more than 10 times the original estimate and opened three years behind schedule. Sam Fortescue looks at what went wrong

How do you turn a prestige design for a new government building into a hugely expensive and politically embarrassing fiasco? Easy. Simply throw a wayward architectural genius into an inappropriate fast-track construction project steered by impatient politicians. This is the story of what went wrong with the Holyrood building, home of the newly devolved Scottish...

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