Deconstructivism: Rem Koolhaas, Frank Gehry, Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame, Scottish Parliament Building, Campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Imperial War Museum North, Daniel Libeskind, Zaha Hadid

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 72. Chapters: Rem Koolhaas, Frank Gehry, Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame, Scottish Parliament Building, Campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Imperial War Museum North, Daniel Libeskind, Zaha Hadid, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Bernard Tschumi, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, Seattle Central Library, Wexner Center for the Arts, Peter Eisenman, Parc de la Villette, Works of Zaha Hadid, Blobitecture, Contemporary Jewish Museum, Gordon Matta-Clark, China Central Television Headquarters, Weisman Art Museum, Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, Greater Columbus Convention Center, Groninger Museum, Jeff Kipnis, Phenomenology, McCormick Tribune Campus Center, High School for the Visual and Performing Arts, Alfred Lerner Hall, Dutch Embassy, Berlin, Coop Himmelb(l)au, House VI, Dongdaemun Design Plaza & Park, Musée des Confluences, Reflections at Keppel Bay, Matcal Tower, Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art, Caltrans District 7 Headquarters, Gran Teatro Nacional. Excerpt: The Scottish Parliament Building (Scottish Gaelic: ) is the home of the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood, within the UNESCO World Heritage Site in central Edinburgh. Construction of the building commenced in June 1999 and the Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) held their first debate in the new building on 7 September 2004. The formal opening by Queen Elizabeth took place on 9 October 2004. Enric Miralles, the Catalan architect who designed the building, died before its completion. From 1999 until the opening of the new building in 2004, committee rooms and the debating chamber of the Scottish Parliament were housed in the General Assembly Hall of the Church of Scotland located on The Mound in Edinburgh. The access to this facility was via a new glazed porch, discreetly placed in the SW corner of Mylne's Court off the Lawnmarket in the midst of some of the University of Edinburgh's Hall of Residences. All traces of this porch were eradicated, and the west wall where it stood returned to a blank wall, immediately after the new parliament opened. Office and administrative accommodation in support of the Parliament were provided in buildings leased from the City of Edinburgh Council. The new Scottish Parliament Building brought together these different elements into one purpose-built parliamentary complex, housing 129 MSPs and more than 1,000 staff and civil servants. From the outset, the building and its construction have been controversial. The choices of location, architect, design, use of non-indigenous materials (granite from China instead of Scotland), and construction company were all criticised by politicians, the media and the Scottish public. Scheduled to open in 2001, it did so in 2004, more than three years late with an estimated final cost of £414 million, many times higher than initial estimates of between £10m and £40m. A major public inquiry into the handling of the construction, chaired by the former Lord Advocate, Peter Fraser, was established i