Architecture

This must be the most controversial building in Scotland this century

“If you build it, they will come.” That line from the 1998 Kevin Costner baseball movie Field of Dreams is the mantra for any architect keen to make his or her mark on the landscape. The Bilbao Effect - the idea that economic regeneration can follow landmark architecture, inspired by Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum which opened in the Basque city in 1997 - has gone from revelation to cliche to bromide in the last quarter of a century.