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)
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)
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