• The Palace of Westminster must be saved, but not the vast expanse of interior detail | Rowan Moore

    The Palace of Westminster must be saved, but not the vast expanse of interior detail | Rowan Moore
    The Houses of Parliament, a globally famous monument, will cost up to £13bn to restore. But this amount can be cut in a way that hardly anyone would noticeLast Monday, the roof of the House of Commons chamber contrived to leak. This adds to the long list of hazards – asbestos, sewage leaks, crumbling masonry, fire risk – that I described in the Observer two weeks ago, along with the mind-bending £7bn-£13bn estimate for putting them right. The daunting scale of the p

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