Scottish Parliament Building
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The Scottish Parliament Building （Scottish Gaelic: Pàrlamaid na h-Alba; Scots: Scots Pairlament Biggin） 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 II took place on 9 October 2004.
Enric Miralles, the Spanish 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.
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, 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 fo...