Gensler has become the latest architect to draw up speculative proposals for a new temporary home for the Houses of Parliament while the Palace of Westminster is being refurbishedThe practice said Project Poseidon, its ‘radical concept’ for a floating £160 million modular structure next to the existing landmark, would ’reduce the cost and minimise the disruption’ of parliament’s proposed £4 billion revamp, which will require MPs to leave the buildings for six years.Earlier this year Studio Egret West came up with its own ideas for a new, short-term home on the site of a former Royal Mail sorting office next to Temple Meads Station in Bristol.And, building on his Bartlett thesis, architect Kieran Thomas Wardle, also recently revealed a vision for a ‘deconstructed’ notion of a Parliament building in East Tilbury, Essex, which he has called the Palace of Eastminster.Gensler’s 250m-long proposal would be built on a series of steel platforms and features a high-tech timber-framed structure.
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