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[Closed] Houses of Parliament are falling down

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[url= http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21604207-parliaments-crumbling-fabric-means-mps-could-have-decamp-up-five-years-mice-and-mps ]Symbolic? [/url]

In 2012 parliamentarians commissioned a study of them. Its findings were grim. “If the palace were not a listed building”, it concluded, “its owners would probably be advised to demolish and rebuild.”


 
Posted : 13/06/2014 4:13 pm
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was about to cheer uproariously,until i opened the thread 🙁


 
Posted : 13/06/2014 4:15 pm
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Buckingham Palace has similar issues, apparently.

What we need is someone to blow the place up, maybe in early November.....?


 
Posted : 13/06/2014 8:26 pm
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You may not like what the buildings stand for, but there is no way we could ever build something as architecturally impressive again...


 
Posted : 13/06/2014 8:31 pm
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It's a pretty astonishing building.


 
Posted : 13/06/2014 8:34 pm
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What we need is someone to blow the place up, maybe in early November.....?

#twitterjoketrial 😆


 
Posted : 13/06/2014 8:35 pm
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Yeah it needs looking after - really is incredible up close.


 
Posted : 13/06/2014 9:38 pm
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We really should look after the Palace of Westminster and Buckingham Palace. They are both very impressive and icons that the world recognises - we should all be very proud 8)


 
Posted : 13/06/2014 10:13 pm
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HP so impressive they ve named a brown sauce after it and the Hungarians copied it for thier parliament buildings


 
Posted : 14/06/2014 9:42 am
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I think it looks crap.

Over ornate neo-gothic boringly shaped building.

IMO


 
Posted : 14/06/2014 9:58 am
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bloody awful victorian Gothic revival monstrosity shame the german aim was so poor.


 
Posted : 14/06/2014 10:29 am
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I think it looks crap.

Over ornate neo-gothic boringly shaped building.

IMO


What, this one?

[img] http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/sites/default/files/LONDON%20ST%20PAU L'S%20CATHEDRAL_34.JPG[/img]


 
Posted : 14/06/2014 6:18 pm
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No not St. Paul's, that's a fairly interesting shape imo, the Houses of Parliament.


 
Posted : 14/06/2014 6:23 pm
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I know, I was being a bit naughty. Not entirely sure why that pic isn't showing, I don't usually have problems posting pics.
I'll try a different one.


 
Posted : 14/06/2014 6:26 pm

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