The winning design came from Catalan architect Enric Miralles but the initial cost of £40 million would eventually mushroom to ten times that amount — the final tally was £414 million.

Modern Architectures in History’ discussing the short but influential career of Catalan architect Enric Miralles.

a competition to choose an architect for the project was won by Catalan Enric Miralles; but when the project began it as still not clear what space and accommodation the parliament would really ...