Description: Kieran Newell is a Architecture student, designer, political activist and traveller. With ambitions to change through design our democracy and the way we live as people for the future.
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The chimes from the clock tower ring out across the Empire and the United Kingdom as a symbol that was exported throughout the civilization as a way of giving the ‘people’ a voice, power of their own fate. A system of government emulated across the globe to be known by the metonym of the ‘Westminster System’ for other nations to follow. Seen to be slightly different in terms of architectural layout to that of the standard amphitheatre taken by the most of the world’s foremost nations for the debating chambe
The Federal Republic of Germany took that started to look differently at how democracy is deployed within Germany itself after the Second World War and developed numerous ideas and buildings that took different styles of architecture to combat a problem but on solution worked supporting the statement that “Architecture and democracy have never coexisted without friction” (Von Beyme, K. 1991) What he means by this is that an architecture cannot work as a solution for all where by democracy tries to it just c
The Palace of Westminster is a symbol for British Politics in the way that the Capitol Building in Washington is a symbol to American Politics, but the Palace has more recognition across the world for its uniqueness of architecture style and how the Queen opens Parliament with the State opening of Parliament. Her procession into the House of Lords with the annual reading of the Queen’s speech marking the policies Her Majesty’s Government is going to take priority for the next parliament.