• Highland bling: the blockbuster castle with a gold-lined oculus and cladding made of crushed TVs

    It has a cinema, an eight-door Aga, a leather ceiling, a gold-rimmed oculus, an outdoor fireplace – and walls rendered in crushed TV screens. Our writer visits a sparkling giant on the bonny banks of Loch AweIt’s a sunny evening on the bonny banks of Loch Awe, deep in the Scottish Highlands, and something is sparkling behind the trees. Up a winding dirt track, past acres of densely planted pines, we come to a clearing where a huddle of chiselled grey blocks rise out of the landscape

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