Parliament House (Sydney)
The Parliament House of New South Wales in Sydney , Australia , is part of a historic building complex. It used to be part of a hospital that was built from 1811 to 1816; it is located downtown on Macquarie Street and is one of Sydney's oldest buildings.
history
The Parliament House was the north wing of the Sydney Hospital furnishings. This hospital is also called the Rum Hospital because it was financed through the granting of a state rum monopoly. The building initiative goes back to Governor Lachlan Macquarie in 1810. The building is two-storey, with the columns designed in the Doric style . Construction was completed in 1816, but there were critical discussions about the building during the construction of the three-wing hospital. Macquarie commissioned the convict and architect Francis Greenway to draw up an expertise on the construction. The result was that he criticized both the technical quality of the building and the design, especially of the column proportions.
The chief surgeon's quarters were located in the original building of Parliament. When the New South Wales Legislative Council was constituted in 1824 , a legislative assembly, it was initially housed in the Old Parliament House in Parramatta . However, when the number of members of parliament was increased from 5 to 15 in 1829, the rooms in Parramatta were too small and the meetings took place in the north wing of the hospital. Only two rooms were reserved for the chief surgeon and the other five rooms were used by council employees and other officials. The Legislative Council consisted of 36 members from 1843, but the rooms were insufficient and the new council occupied the entire wing of the building. Further demand arose in 1856 when the two-chamber system was introduced in New South Wales. These meetings were held in a new iron building at the south end of the hospital grounds. The building was prefabricated in England and erected in Sydney. The new chambers began their sessions on May 22, 1856. The new building was not ideal; it had poor acoustics, ventilation and lighting, mainly because of the tin roof.
From 1931 to 1936 the building housed Australia's first museum, a small natural history collection. The Parliament Cafeteria was built behind the hospital building in 1969 and the Parliament Library, which was built in 1850, grew over time and was connected to the Greenway Room and the Jubilee Room , the reading room, in the Parliament Building in 1906.
In 1974 work began on restoring the building to its original state as far as possible. The parliamentary library was relocated to the new 12-storey administration building and completed in 1980. The interior of the two chambers was rebuilt in 1985 as it should have looked in 1892.
structure
Today's parliament resides in the building. It consists of two chambers, the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly. The Department of Parliamentary Services is run by the Chief Executive Officer of each Chamber, Clerk of the Parliaments (Clerk of the Legislative Council) and Clerk of the Legislative Assembly . There is also an executive manager in Parliamentary Services .
Individual evidence
- ^ A b The Legislative Assembly Chamber, Legislative Council. Edited by Parliament of New South Wales . Retrieved November 19, 2010
- ^ A b The "Rum Hospital" and Parliament House, Parliament House History Bulletin 9, Parliamentary Education and Community Relations and Parliamentary Archives 8/97 ( Memento of November 4, 2005 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved November 19, 2010
- ^ Structure of the Legislative Assembly on parliament.nsw.gov.au . Retrieved November 19, 2010
Web links
- Ground floor plan of the parliament building and timetable ( memento of November 4, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 26 kB)
- Video of the historically restored Assembly Chamber
Coordinates: 33 ° 52 ′ 8.2 ″ S , 151 ° 12 ′ 45.7 ″ E