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This is a building where people are literally employed to walk the halls so that if there is a fire, it will be noticed in time to save the building. This is a
by btilly 7y ago
This is a building where people are literally employed to walk the halls so that if there is a fire, it will be noticed in time to save the building.
This is also a building where Parliament can be shut down for a day because a pipe burst and flooded the chambers where they deliberate. (Happened about a year ago during Brexit deliberations.)
This is also a building where they know that they need to spend billions on renovations but can't.
On the flip side, this also has one of the most impressive remaining medieval roofs in existence. Contains the lobby that gave us the word "lobbying". And contains more history than any building that you can find in the USA.
If ever you go to London, get a tour of it. Seriously.
- Mvandenbergh 7y ago>This is also a building where they know that they need to spend billions on renovations but can't. Second line of the article: "Historians working on the renovation of the House of Commons found the lost 360-year-old passageway, hidden in a secret chamber." Planning permission has been filed for the first phase of works, not actually on the Palace of Westminster but on the other side of Portcullis House, to renovate those buildings so that everyone can move there for the years it will take to renovate.
- btilly 7y agoYes, work is being prepared. And yet, work was put off for decades and now work on the building is still going to be delayed for years.