After the old Houses of Parliament burned down in 1834, there was a public competition to find a scheme for a replacement, which anyone could enter on payment of £1 for a copy of the site plans.

Here’s a look at Great Britain’s Houses of Parliament, located on the Thames River in London. Facts The meeting place of Great Britain’s bicameral legislature – composed of the House of Commons and ...

A full restoration of the historic Houses of Parliament is being "kicked down the road" risking a major disaster, it has been warned. Labour former cabinet minister Lord Hain again highlighted "a real ...

Once the new Parliament building, part of the redevelopment of Central Vista, is inaugurated, India will in many ways, turn a page, since the opening of the old Parliament in 1927. "Today, you meet ...

Before India's tryst with destiny, chambers of the old Parliament under the British Raj were shaken by revolutionaries Bhagat Singh and BK Dutt in 1929, who hurled bomb in its chamber and dropped ...

The old parliament building was the House of the Imperial Legislative Council between 18 January 1927 and 15 August 1947. It was designed by British architects Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker; ...

History Of The Old Parliament Building. Originally known as the council house, the building is considered an icon of India’s democratic spirit.