Temporary home for the House of Commons, London, England
In an appealing nod to the ephemeral Crystal Palace exhibition halls that were all the rage in London and beyond in the mid-and late-19th century, Foster + Partners has revealed a similarly grand, glass-clad vision for what would serve as the temporary home for the House of Commons, one of the two houses of Parliament in the United Kingdom, while the ailing (not to mention catastrophic fire-prone) Palace of Westminster undergoes extensive and time-intensive renovations.