The Scottish Parliament / Enric Miralles

Widely known for it’s extreme cost of construction, the Scottish Parliament by Enric Miralles is a remarkable example of incorporating architecture into it’s surroundings.

The Parliament sits in the land. We have the feeling that the building should be land, built out of land. To carve in the land the form of gathering people together… Scotland is a land… The land itself will be a material, a physical building material… — via ArchDaily