Westminster Palace
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 | Westminster Palace, or Houses of Parliament |
| Designer | Sir Charles Barry |
| Location | London, England |
| Date | 1836 to 1868 |
| Building Type | seat of government, government center |
| Climate | temperate |
| Context | urban |
| Architectural Style | English Gothic Revival |
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| Notes | Westminster New Palace, the Houses of Parliament for England and all the United Kingdom, including the famous clock Big Ben. Design of gothic details assisted by A. W. N. Pugin. |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/Westminster_Palace.html |
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| UNESCO World Heritage Sites | |
| Name | Westminster Palace, Westminster Abbey and Saint Margaret's Church |
| Region | Europe and North America |
| Type | Cultural |
| Criteria | i, ii, iv |
| UNESCO Site ID | 426 |
| Year of Listing | 1987 |
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Connects with the much older Westminster Hall. In the south-west corner is the 102m (336ft) high Victoria Tower, considered the tallest in the world at the time it was built. At the northern end rises the Clock Tower, a great symbol of London with the famous clock "Big Ben", and 96m (316ft) high itself.
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Palace of Westminster
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Yetsuh Frank photographs.
Johnson Architectural Images. Copyrighted slides in the Artifice Collection.
Sir Banister Fletcher. A History of Architecture. London: The Butterworth Group, 1987. ISBN 0-408-01587-X. LC 86-31761. NA200.F63 1987. description p1138, overview photo and plan drawing, p1139. — The classic text of architectural history. Expanded 1996 edition available at Amazon.com
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- Explore Parliament — CD-ROM site with some online VR
- Paper model of Big Ben
