Architect Enric Miralles died in 2000, four years before his design for the new Scottish Parliament building was realized. And the reaction to the building from the general public has been widely negative. Still, says Christopher Hume, the complex “reverses the notion of the national legislature as a place that towers above the landscape, a beacon of state power. The Scottish Parliament reinvents the political system as a city within a city, a community set apart yet deeply connected to its surroundings.” And the public distaste for the project may well have much to do with the widespread antipathy towards the government itself.