 The Beehive (left) and Parliament House (right), Wellington New Zealand Parliament Buildings houses the New Zealand Parliament and is situated on a 45,000 square metre site in and around the northern end of Lambton Quay, Wellington. They consist of Parliament House, the Executive Wing, the Parliamentary Library, Bowen House, and the old Government Buildings. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1502x912, 222 KB) Summary New Zealand Parliament Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ...
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The New Zealand Parliament is the legislative body of the New Zealand government. ...
Lambton Quay is the heart of the central business district of Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand. ...
Wellington (Te Whanganui-a-Tara or Poneke) is the capital of New Zealand, the countrys second-largest urban area and the most populous national capital in Oceania. ...
Parliament House
 The back of Parliament, with the new secure courier deliver area The building contains the Debating Chamber, Speaker's Office, Visitors' Centre, and committee rooms. The main building of the complex is Parliament House. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 371 KB) Summary Back of NZ Parliament Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ...
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An earlier wooden Parliament House was destroyed by fire in 1907 along with all other parliament buildings except the library. A competition to find a replacement design was announced by Prime Minister Joseph Ward in February 1911. Out of the thirty-seven entries, the winning design by Government Architect John Campbell was selected by Colonel Vernon, former Government Architect for New South Wales. As another of Campbell's entries won fourth place, the actual design is a combination of both entrries. The design is divided into two stages, first a new structure for both chambers and a second stage with an extension and a new library to replace the existing one. 1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ...
 Parliament House (left) and the Parliamentary Library (right) Despite cost concerns, Prime Minister William Massey lets construction of the first stage begin in 1914 but without much of the ornamentation and the roof domes. The outbreak of World War I created labour and material shortages that made construction difficult. By 1917 the top floor of the first stage is completed. Although the first stage is far from finished, MPs move into the building in 1918 to avoid having to use the cramped old Government House. In 1922 construction ends thought the building is incomplete while the second stage is never built. The building is finally inaugurated officially in 1995 by Queen Elizabeth II. ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (5304x1310, 1373 KB) Summary New Zealand Parliament Buildings, Wellington, NZ. Photograph by Greg OBeirne, taken 4th November 2005, 8. ...
ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (5304x1310, 1373 KB) Summary New Zealand Parliament Buildings, Wellington, NZ. Photograph by Greg OBeirne, taken 4th November 2005, 8. ...
1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday. ...
1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ...
1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ...
1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Beehive
 Bowen House (left), the Beehive (centre) and Parliament - Main article: Beehive (building)
The Executive Wing's shape has given it the nickname of "The Beehive". The Beehive sits where the southern wing of Parliament House was planned to go. This distinctive building was designed by British architect Sir Basil Spence in 1964, and completed in 1981. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 376 KB) Summary Bowen House, the Beehive and Parliament Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 376 KB) Summary Bowen House, the Beehive and Parliament Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ...
The Beehive, Wellington The Beehive is the common name for the Executive Wing of the New Zealand Parliament Buildings, located at the corner of Molesworth Street and Lambton Quay, Wellington. ...
The Beehive, Wellington The Beehive is the common name for the Executive Wing of the New Zealand Parliament Buildings, located at the corner of Molesworth Street and Lambton Quay, Wellington. ...
Architect at his drawing board, 1893 An architect is a person involved in the planning, designing and oversight of a buildings construction. ...
Sir Basil Spence (13 August 1907_19 November 1976 was a notable Scottish architect, most famously associated with the Cathedral in Coventry, but also responsible for numerous other buildings in the Modernist style. ...
The building is ten storeys (72 metres) high. The top floor is occupied by the Cabinet offices, with the Prime Minister's offices on the floor immediately below. Other floors contain the offices of individual cabinet ministers, and various function rooms. A Cabinet is a body of high-ranking members of government, typically representing the executive branch. ...
The Prime Minister of New Zealand is New Zealands head of government and is the leader of the party or coalition with majority support in the Parliament of New Zealand. ...
Alternate meanings in cabinet (disambiguation) A Cabinet is a body of high-ranking members of government, typically representing the executive branch. ...
The Parliamentary Library Completed in 1899, this is the oldest of the New Zealand Parliament Buildings. It survived the fire of 1907 which destroyed all the other parliament buildings including the actual Parliament House. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 365 KB) Summary Parliamentary Library, Wellington, New Zealand Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 365 KB) Summary Parliamentary Library, Wellington, New Zealand Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ...
1899 (MDCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
Bowen House A multi-storey office building next to the Beehive, Bowen House houses MPs' offices and support staff. It is connected to the rest of the parliamentary complex by a tunnel under Bowen Street.
Government Buildings Built in 1876, old Government Buildings sit opposite Parliament House. The four-storey building is the second-largest wooden building in the world, and the largest in the southern hemisphere. No longer used by New Zealand's Parliament, it now houses Victoria University of Wellington's Law School as part of the University's Pipitea campus. Victoria University of Wellington was established in 1897 as the fifth constituent college of the University of New Zealand by an Act of Parliament. ...
The Faculty of Law (also know of the Law School) is located on Victoria University of Wellingtons Pipitea campus in Wellington, New Zealand. ...
External links - NZ Parliament Buildings
- Panorama of NZ Parliament buildings
- history of NZ Parliament buildings
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