Westminster Hall, London
London
United Kingdom
Westminster Hall
Houses of Parliament
The Ethics of Dust
Jorge Otero-Pailos
Arte Mundit
Westminster Hall was constructed in 1099 for King William II and is one of the oldest parts of Westminster Palace, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Hall has a surface area of 1,547 m² and is one of the largest unsupported halls of its time.
Reference identification data
- Construction project:
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Façade restoration
Façade restoration / natural stone
- Building type:
- Historically protected / historically valuable buildings
Churches / cloisters
- Short description
- Some 200 years’ worth of dirt and soot had accumulated on the internal walls of Westminster Palace. The imposing natural stone walls needed to be cleaned without this causing any damage to the building. In order to ensure that all the scaffolding could be dismantled within six hours to allow important events to go ahead, the project had to be divided up into sections – but the divisions between sections needed to be completely invisible in the end result. In addition, artist Jorge Otero-Pailos planned to use a 50-metre length of the latex skin from the cleaning project in his exhibition “The Ethics of Dust”. This project required close collaboration between the renovators and the artist.
- Designer:
- Adam Watrobski
- Contractor:
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DBR London Ltd
- reference.detail.customer
- Parliamentary Estate Directorate
- Site address:
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London
- Date / completion:
- 2016
- Can the work be viewed?
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No
