AJ 27.08.09

Pop up Parliament

Following on from the comments yesterday we've had an email asking for more info on Cedric Price's Pop-up Parliament so here you go.
A new two chamber parliament building on the same Westminster site incorporating new electronics and including a temporary shelter to a Parliament Square "stadium" (1965).

"If we want an efficient parliament, let's give it a whole efficient building to work . . . replace the present historic monument with an up-to-date structure - flexible, accessible and dispensable." So wrote New Society in 1965. A large but comparatively simple supermarket of democracy spreading its information and shelter to adjoinging but less committed areas auch as the vastly enlarged Parliament Square."

(Text and image from Non-Plan by Jonathan Hughes and Simon Sadler)

The Peoples Champion

Ok just out of interest we have tallied up the public's vote as of midnight 31/08/09 and the "most popular" seem to have been. (And yes we know it was not a fool proof method - we were just curious to see what came out top.)

Runners up - An EC Machine by Blane Hammerlund and The commons Bridge by Charles Lloyd Mashburn Jr.

The most popular and therefore the people's Champion was Soapbox Towers by Jemma Horwood/ Mark Rintoul.

Sadly the only prize for the public vote is a warm sense of public's love washing over the winners but well done to all three anyways.

But did you agree? Please have a look through all the images and have a read of the explanations and then post your thoughts and comments. Lets get some debates going.

Tell the Tele

Someone just alerted us to this small article on the Telegraphs site - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/6061315/Architects-design-state-owned-homes-for-MPs-after-expenses-scandal.html

Good to see the ideas spreading - now we just need some MP's thoughts.