women and children first? not at holyrood!

[Pickman's model]

in the event of a fire alarm at holyrood, the inordinately expensive scottish parliament building, the top pen-pushers will be out the door first.

see this link.

 

[Pickman's model]

in the light of that, it's most surprising that the unholy place won some sort of architecture award. i suspect bribery...

 

[dylanredefined]

You've misread the story queensbury house is a 17th century building and holyrod is the new building .The first case alarm goes off get out .In the second
case modern building so you have abit of time to see if its genuine before getting everyone out .

 

[likesfish]

the modern building is designed with loads of expensive fire doors and fire proofing so even if there is a fire aas long as the fire doors are kept shut you got plenty of time to escape.
17th centuary building potential deathtrap in the event of a fire run like hell.
with a 60 minute firedoor giving staff 4 minutes to checkout weather there is an actual fire or not before triggering a fullscale evacuation.
modern building more fire safe than 17th centuary one shock horror

 

[Crispy]

Holyrood : Massively over budget and late (although the original budgeting and programme were hopelessly optimistic), but stunning architecture and worthy of winning the Stirling Prize.