Question for the Scots

[Robin]

amazingly ugly

[Jaggy thistle]

nice inside but ugly outside and criminally expensive

[An t-Ileach]

It is hideous, and an appalling waste of money. I watched them building it, on an off, and thought all along that it was an eyesore and a piece of environmental pollution - it's located just across the way from Holyroodhouse Palace and the Salisbury Crags and spoils the view of both of them.

It's also hypocritical: there are bi-lingual signs all over the tourist bits, but once you pass through the doors into the members' and functionaries' area there is no Gaelic to be seen anywhere.

I never understood why the Royal High School wasn't used except for politicians cupidity and desire to waste some more of the taxpayers' money: even so a billion pounds is way over the top.

[beloitpiper]

Yeah, that's what I thought. The first time I saw the building, I was really surprised. Especially the inside...it looks like something from an L Ron Hubbard book. And when I learned how much it cost I was even more surprised [insert "thrifty Scot" joke here].

[Mike1]

I was there in early September 2005, whilst the Declaration of Arbroath, the Lubeck Letter and the Ayr Manuscript were displayed there. I wasn't sure if we were walking into a mausoleum or a cellar, what with all the bare concrete and the poor lighting.

[Richland]

WOW, is that a roller coaster on top. Good idea!

[starbkjrus]

I've read articles in British papers excoriating everyone involved in the project and the cost was indeed criminal but I'd only seen a couple of pics. The entrance and the meeting chamber.

Now seeing the whole thing gives me a sense of the true er..... well..... is spectacular hideousity too insulting? Wow!

The Denver Art Museum just looks strange to me.

[BEEDEE]

Whoever approved this design certainly never read Lincoln's Gettysburg Address - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom--and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth

Brian

[Kid Cossack]

Oh my. That's horrid.

[thescot]

OH, my Lord. It's much worse than I expected.

It looks like something from the 1950s in Soviet Russia for tenement housing. Someone should shoot the architect and then shoot whoever hired the architect.

My Scot brothers, I am so sorry.