New Zealand Parliament Buildings

Left to right: Bowen House, the Beehive (Executive Wing), Parliament House and the Parliamentary Library

New Zealand Parliament Buildings (Māori: Ngā whare Paremata[1]) house the New Zealand Parliament and are on a 45,000 square metre site at the northern end of Lambton Quay, Wellington. From north to south, they are the Parliamentary Library building (1899); the Edwardian neoclassical-style Parliament House (1922); the executive wing, called "The Beehive" (1977); and Bowen House (in use since 1991). Currently, an additional building for housing Members of Parliament is under construction, which is expected to be completed in 2026. Whilst most of the individual buildings are outstanding for different reasons, the overall setting that has been achieved "has little aesthetic or architectural coherence".[2]

  1. ^ "Ngā whare Paremata". teara.govt.nz (in Māori). Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
  2. ^ "Parliament House". New Zealand Heritage List/Rārangi Kōrero. Heritage New Zealand. Retrieved 27 July 2015.