Trip March 08'....Scottish Parliament

The Parliament's model
The chamber of the Parliament

The 1st architectural trip was the Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh.  It is a amazing building, the design concept was based on three main elements: ship, leaf and dancing minister. The architectural details of the building are very symbolic and abstract. It composed by a lot of art pieces, and the political spaces. The parliament is a symbol of the 21th century parliament were a place that have to take a great responsible to the people but not the MPs themselves. The common court, internal garden and gathering place in the building was designed for the MPs to have more spaces to discuss the people's issues and share their opinion to each others. All the meeting rooms in the building are transparent; the main door to get in the chamber is a over-scale high to remind the formality of the MPs and the ship-shape skylight is represent the history of the Scotland. In fact, I can say every single detail in the building was sensible and meaningful. It designed  properly which composes the history, art, spaces and political element in a perfect way. Cool, if you visit Edinburgh, please don't miss the parliament. 

这个是代表着二十一世纪的国会：透明，公开，辩论和民主。设计这特出的国会建筑师是来自西班牙Enric Miralles。这才华溢溢的建筑师在建筑还未完工之前就因癌症离开人世了，但是当他知道命还剩下不长的时间时，他拼命地用他所剩下性命来完成所有的设计图，而且设计的非常仔细，为了就是确保这伟大的作品能够依照他的构思完成。死了后，工人们就依照他的‘遗图’继续施工。其实这工程经过了无数的辩论，反对，和超出预算的恶劣的挑战之下建起来的。这令苏格兰人为傲的国会是由不同人的努力和坚持下熬过来的：许多政治人物为此而付出了政治的代价，人民付出的血汗钱，更重要是那位建筑师付出了他最后的性命。伟大的建筑，背后总有伟大的付出！