Portal:New Zealand/Selected picture/Week 3, 2007

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The New Zealand Parliamentary Buildings consist of Bowen House, the Beehive, Parliament House (partially shown) and the Parliamentary Library (not shown). The complex is located at the northern end of Lambton Quay in Wellington. The Library is the oldest building, having survived a fire in 1907. Parliament House was never completed (the stairs were meant to represent the halfway point), and instead the Beehive was built on the remaining site. Bowen House was purchased in the 1980's to accommodate rapid growth in staff numbers (it is now privately owned and rented out however).