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Stirling's value keeps rising

Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2005 / October 14

For one glorious, anarchic moment, it looked as if the Scottish Parliament might win this year's Stirling Prize, the architects' award for the best new British building, at exactly the moment the public voted that it was the one building in the country it would most like to see knocked down. What horrors! Just when we were all supposed to love modern buildings, just as the Stirling prepared to celebrate its 10th anniversary, the ghost of the 1980s seemed to rear its head.

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