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New Zealand Parliament Buildings house the
New Zealand Parliament and are on a 45,000 square metre site at the northern end of
Lambton Quay, Wellington, Wellington. They consist of Parliament House, the Beehive (building), the Parliamentary Library and Bowen House.
==Parliament House==The main building of the complex is Parliament House, containing the Debating Chamber, Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives's Office, Visitors' Centre, and committee rooms.
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 37 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 entries. The design was 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.
Despite cost concerns, Prime Minister
William Massey let 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 was completed. Although the first stage was far from finished, MPs moved into the building in 1918 to avoid having to use the old cramped Government Building. In
1922 construction ended, though the building was unfinished building as the second stage was never built. The building was finally inaugurated officially in 1995 by Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
The Beehive
The Executive Wing's shape has given it the nickname of "
Beehive (building)". The Beehive sits where the southern wing of Parliament House was planned to go. This distinctive building was designed by Great Britain architect Sir Basil Spence in 1964, and completed in 1981.
The building is ten storeys (72 metres) high. The top floor is occupied by the
New Zealand Cabinet offices, with the Prime Minister of New Zealand offices on the floor immediately below. Other floors contain the offices of individual Minister (government)s, and various function rooms.
Following an 1997 select committee report, a plan was put in place to move the Beehive behind Parliament House, and to then finish Parliament House to the 1911 original plans. The plan was quickly scuttled due to a lack of public support which led to parties withdrawing their support.
The Parliamentary Library
Completed in 1899, this is the oldest of the New Zealand Parliament Buildings. It survived the fire of 1907 that destroyed all the other parliament buildings, including Parliament House.
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
Not part of the current parliamentary complex and the other side of
Lambton Quay, this four-storey building was designed by
William Clayton (architect) and built in 1876. It is the second-largest wooden building in the world (after
Tōdai-ji in
Nara, Nara), and the largest in the Southern Hemisphere. No longer used by New Zealand's Parliament, it houses
Victoria University of Wellington's Victoria University of Wellington, Faculty of Law as part of Victoria's Pipitea campus.
Photographs
Image:BackofNZParliament.JPG | The Back of ParliamentImage:Originalproposednzparliament.jpg | The original 1911 designImage:Bowen House Beehive Parliament.JPG | Bowen House, the Beehive and the steps of Parliament HouseImage:WellingtonParliamentaryLibrary_gobeirne.jpg| The Parliamentary LibraryImage:Proposaltoshiftbeehive.jpg | The proposed completed Parliament House with the Beehive moved behind itImage:WellingtonParliamentEdit_gobeirne.jpg | Panorama of Parliament House and Library
External links
- New Zealand Parliament website
- New Zealand Parliament History and Buildings
New Zealand Parliament Buildings house the
New Zealand Parliament and are on a 45,000 square metre site at the northern end of
Lambton Quay, Wellington,
Wellington. They consist of Parliament House, the
Beehive (building), the Parliamentary Library and Bowen House.
==Parliament House==The main building of the complex is Parliament House, containing the Debating Chamber, Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives's Office, Visitors' Centre, and committee rooms.
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 37 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 entries. The design was 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.
Despite cost concerns, Prime Minister William Massey let 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 was completed. Although the first stage was far from finished, MPs moved into the building in
1918 to avoid having to use the old cramped Government Building. In 1922 construction ended, though the building was
unfinished building as the second stage was never built. The building was finally inaugurated officially in 1995 by
Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
The Beehive
The Executive Wing's shape has given it the nickname of "Beehive (building)". The Beehive sits where the southern wing of Parliament House was planned to go. This distinctive building was designed by Great Britain architect Sir
Basil Spence in 1964, and completed in 1981.
The building is ten storeys (72 metres) high. The top floor is occupied by the New Zealand Cabinet offices, with the Prime Minister of New Zealand offices on the floor immediately below. Other floors contain the offices of individual Minister (government)s, and various function rooms.
Following an 1997 select committee report, a plan was put in place to move the Beehive behind Parliament House, and to then finish Parliament House to the 1911 original plans. The plan was quickly scuttled due to a lack of public support which led to parties withdrawing their support.
The Parliamentary Library
Completed in 1899, this is the oldest of the New Zealand Parliament Buildings. It survived the fire of 1907 that destroyed all the other parliament buildings, including Parliament House.
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
Not part of the current parliamentary complex and the other side of Lambton Quay, this four-storey building was designed by William Clayton (architect) and built in 1876. It is the second-largest wooden building in the world (after
Tōdai-ji in
Nara, Nara), and the largest in the Southern Hemisphere. No longer used by New Zealand's Parliament, it houses Victoria University of Wellington's Victoria University of Wellington, Faculty of Law as part of Victoria's Pipitea campus.
Photographs
Image:BackofNZParliament.JPG | The Back of ParliamentImage:Originalproposednzparliament.jpg | The original 1911 designImage:Bowen House Beehive Parliament.JPG | Bowen House, the Beehive and the steps of Parliament HouseImage:WellingtonParliamentaryLibrary_gobeirne.jpg| The Parliamentary LibraryImage:Proposaltoshiftbeehive.jpg | The proposed completed Parliament House with the Beehive moved behind itImage:WellingtonParliamentEdit_gobeirne.jpg | Panorama of Parliament House and Library
External links
- New Zealand Parliament website
- New Zealand Parliament History and Buildings
