The scheme was designed in accordance with Parliament’s brief for a dedicated education centre that will accommodate and increase the number of school children visiting the Palace of Westminster from 45,000 to 100,000 per year. Feilden+Mawson’s design for the Education Centre was completed in conjunction with Kim Wilkie, a renowned landscape architect, as a building that is part of the landscape setting of the Palace of Westminster. A new crescent shaped path and embankment will create new end to the park, a powerful setting for Rodin’s Burghers of Calais, and reconnect the Palace of Westminster’s southern façade to Victoria Tower Gardens. Furthermore, south facing seating, a planted embankment with hedging and roof planting of English hedgerow species will create a congenial and bio-diverse edge to the gardens. Once the planting is established the bronze clad entry will be the only visible element of the Education Centre when viewed from the park.