§ LORD ROBERT CECILsaid, he rose to ask the First Lord of the Treasury, Whether he has been rightly understood to say that no Plan is in existence of the architectural alterations which it is proposed to make in the International Exhibition Building; and, if so, on what data the Estimate of the cost of those alterations has been framed?
§ VISCOUNT PALMERSTONsaid, in reply, that with regard to the question of the noble Lord, there had been no plan formed as to the conversion of the building, because all that was intended to be done was to complete the front, as it now stood, with stucco, and to convert the dome from glass into brick, with skylights at the top. The plan was, in fact, the building itself. What the surveyors thought proper would be done, but it was not a matter in which an architect had been called in for the purpose of making any plan.
§ LORD ROBERT CECILsaid, he wished to know whether the noble Lord meant, by completing the architectural alterations of the building, facing it all over with stucco?
§ VISCOUNT PALMERSTONCompleting the architectural alterations required means the rendering more permanent, and more in conformity with what is usual in buildings, the surface, which is not now so completed.