Houses or Parliament Restoration

[BrianW]

Manchester Town Hall is a good parallel.
It's a fine gothic building, but even 50 years ago it was totally unsuitable to be a modern office for the Council. I suspect it's even less suitable now.
It would probably be better turned into a hotel or a museum or something like that because you cannot update it as an office without destroying it.
BTW, the actual Council Chamber has been in the Extension since the 1930s.
I strongly suspect it is and will remain an uneconomic building as a workplace.

 

[mexico1970]

Manchester Town Hall is a good parallel.
It's a fine gothic building, but even 50 years ago it was totally unsuitable to be a modern office for the Council. I suspect it's even less suitable now.
It would probably be better turned into a hotel or a museum or something like that because you cannot update it as an office without destroying it.
BTW, the actual Council Chamber has been in the Extension since the 1930s.
I strongly suspect it is and will remain an uneconomic building as a workplace.

Making it into a museum would be a fantastic idea imho.

 

[Keeper!]

Stick it Birmingham. You can redevelop brownfield land that isn't currently in use and achieve a net zero target. It will then be in the middle of the country and better connected to transport hubs than ever before.

You can either make the palace of Westminster a museum or ...

 

[TinFoilHat]

I'm sure there's already a modern government building in London they could use to debate the issues of the day. The private school debating society look is so 17th Century.

Keep the old building for history and whack a hotel, and a Wetherspoons in it and tourists will lap it up.

 

[Blue Maverick]

I'm sure there's already a modern government building in London they could use to debate the issues of the day. The private school debating society look is so 17th Century.

Keep the old building for history and whack a hotel, and a Wetherspoons in it and tourists will lap it up.

Only if the put the toilets at the top of the 39 steps

 

[BrianW]

Madame Tussauds could work wonders with Parliament. It could be an amazing tourist attraction.

The only snag is, that the waxworks would outperform current MPs.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

£25Bn and 76 years?

Someone’s taking the piss, or moved the decimal point to the right!

Find a crappy up North location and make some of these Southern Softies get a taste of what REAL LIFE is like for millions of Britons north of the M25!

 

[BlueAnorak]

Parliament restoration could ‘take 76 years and cost £22bn’ | Construction News

The restoration of the Houses of Parliament could take up to 76 years and cost over £20bn, a new report has warned. The mammoth task of repairing the

www.constructionnews.co.uk

 

[Rascal]

Some people like a bit of history, not everything needs to be austere and built on the cheap. The cost for this renovation is spread over 76 years it's not like it's being refurbished by wimpys in an 18 month timescale.

Why not hold parliament at Stonehenge then.

 

[mexico1970]

Why not hold parliament at Stonehenge then.

I am more concerned about the building mate, I have very little concern for MP's.