There is one in Eastern Europe that’s more beautiful. The parliament is just for decorational purposes only as well so it makes sense that it is good looking.
Ours is both very old and very down to Earth. In a city with several palaces, the Binnenhof is just wonderfully Dutch. We don’t need marble or sandstone, this country is built on clay with clay bricks.
We can’t complain, except the price of the ongoing renovations. But it’s a bit older.
I think i don’t get the appeal of londonian architectures, i don’t find those kind of buildings very pretty. Massive yes, but definitely not my taste compared to those in many other countries. I prefer your villages
Versailles of course. Even if we shortened the last landlord, it’s still to this day a government building notably used to home extraordinary parliament sessions with both the Assemblee nationale and Senate, each time we have to modernise the Constitution.
It’s big enough.
For pure f*ck-off hugeness, Tokyo City Hall is certainly impressive:
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As sad and ironic as it may sound – Hungary.
https://preview.redd.it/q01pgj96rsmf1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9865f19f3190bbb31bd97bb3c4733d50384a08b1
There is one in Eastern Europe that’s more beautiful. The parliament is just for decorational purposes only as well so it makes sense that it is good looking.
https://preview.redd.it/d7m7aqnorsmf1.jpeg?width=1943&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d7e957739351b052c596e38846c606fd43a8a3fa
Not us anyway…
Ours is both very old and very down to Earth. In a city with several palaces, the Binnenhof is just wonderfully Dutch. We don’t need marble or sandstone, this country is built on clay with clay bricks.
We can’t complain, except the price of the ongoing renovations. But it’s a bit older.
https://preview.redd.it/wr0vr83rssmf1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5981638425deb6126996017e8ad87c3014bd4555
https://preview.redd.it/we1ktrihssmf1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9745bc0b172df513a224b2c24baceccc977c346e
Finnish parliament building if it was built in accordance with plans by Eliel Saarinen
Ours are mostly from the XVI century (some XV, some XIX), somewhat normal from the outside, fancier inside
Romania, there is a strange beauty in it being so ridiculously big.
https://preview.redd.it/j61o7uvzssmf1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a6db6019bd9802b2d34f74758f8f4b1152e7f5be
It’s the UK’s largest nursing home.
Edit: autocorrect
The Dutch one is my vote:
https://preview.redd.it/uigj9e80usmf1.jpeg?width=612&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f7fe4fb094b39d5951b696014ecd59f60187e9b7
https://preview.redd.it/cfnllo2husmf1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=37b7b98cc50d484834a5ad50d3f9f65973f5629d
Ours until 1999ish. Stunning, isn’t it? And even better:
Hungary
https://preview.redd.it/m7s0dvthvsmf1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ddc22fc752b9dc703f0adec150f2f992b66f1ea5
Þingvellir – the best one!
Its whats on the inside that counts
I like how we all thought of Hungary in unison
I’m a big fan of the Palace of Westminster / Whitehall all the way up to Buckingham Palace.
Here is the Welsh Government building, the Senedd (Senate). Here, we decide how to spend the English’s tax money.
https://preview.redd.it/rsno5emhwsmf1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=d97de84e2f35a76dab365079eba9359c2c571bc0
We, of course
I loved how Parliament looked in V for Vendetta
You guys have a government?
https://preview.redd.it/06uchdoxysmf1.jpeg?width=1310&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=116c9511c41b5b477e66aa3c78f624ef5defad3d
Not ours but wanted to share anyway
interior, exterior or both?
Budapest of course
I think i don’t get the appeal of londonian architectures, i don’t find those kind of buildings very pretty. Massive yes, but definitely not my taste compared to those in many other countries. I prefer your villages
https://preview.redd.it/gghalyrq0tmf1.jpeg?width=275&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0b34c099e7d24558bfed37dce56a3abb74f6d12e
Eu parliament
Not to brag… but ours is nice
https://preview.redd.it/63z044i22tmf1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ba7b06aaccc853ddecace44e37340ab80de533af
The Houses of Parliament look pretty cool. The people inside the building, however? Yeah, no.
https://preview.redd.it/qlb6xp0b3tmf1.jpeg?width=550&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1e8cdf1dd990dcf1f22451be0d9c754c9966d857
I’d like to vote Dáil Éireann as the worst
I would like to nominate Austria. We have the Austrian [Parlament](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_Parliament_Building), the [Hofburg](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofburg) and the [Wiener Rathaus](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_City_Hall) all close together.
If we count FORMER residential buildings we could count [Schloss Schönbrunn](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%B6nbrunn_Palace) or maybe also the [Festung Hohensalzburg](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hohensalzburg_Fortress)
To meet nice people you have to leave Vienna tho…
The Senate of Macau . It served as the ruling body of the Portuguese possessions in China for nearly 500 years
https://preview.redd.it/zds9oci85tmf1.jpeg?width=700&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3154bc271a6f189a11431aa194905405c9b075be
Hungary wins by a landslide, but if regional parliaments count, Schloss Schwerin doesn’t need to hide.
https://preview.redd.it/j6joctmg7tmf1.jpeg?width=1400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=451834042aa8981dd354f8b815a2f343d063c9ba
https://preview.redd.it/ly26hk6u7tmf1.jpeg?width=4239&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=af0daeee4f00288227476807bde34a2d5d4864f8
I mean it’s not ugly, it even has its own island with a hidden bulletproof pedestrian bridge leading to it.
https://preview.redd.it/5rx1pt5j8tmf1.jpeg?width=2480&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5bd43f9e017fa264bd402f1537eadc890c9b4f4b
I’m too biased to say if it’s the most beautiful, but I’ve always loved our little Isle of Parliament
https://imgur.com/a/5QaUsXS
Going regional, i’ll to with the Regional Palace of the General Junta of Asturias from 1910, before they used the Cathedral
https://preview.redd.it/zs8bp5oyatmf1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e86caf2510f2763692bc674bb1ac132fdecd8974
https://preview.redd.it/911xgazubtmf1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b22622d1c21102b3eb1a07f08b579beeed0a06b8
Versailles of course. Even if we shortened the last landlord, it’s still to this day a government building notably used to home extraordinary parliament sessions with both the Assemblee nationale and Senate, each time we have to modernise the Constitution.
It’s big enough.
For pure f*ck-off hugeness, Tokyo City Hall is certainly impressive:
https://preview.redd.it/himqb7dpetmf1.jpeg?width=1734&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=88afdba103e2ea2a60053ce2912d412eec566750
@beckography did a ranking of every European parliament building
https://youtube.com/shorts/hES0rudBd8o?si=BM1hm4r8P2TZkP4i
https://youtube.com/shorts/Ht5rCQAWIPU?si=2p5dwZYcNYy1Xp95
https://preview.redd.it/t2v8qx4hftmf1.png?width=4538&format=png&auto=webp&s=649acb3c36825996b0b329353a6698281b55dd17
https://preview.redd.it/cyv3rzg7itmf1.jpeg?width=2000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2cbc14912f7acb3bdf23914e0b7e27aafb20d969
A thing of beauty
https://i.imgur.com/HpOrjaq.jpeg
https://preview.redd.it/tjzsxdx1rtmf1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0c32ca7943fb6778d1bd269655bc47bb0e1877be
Alaska State Capitol
Hungry
No sicilian mentionning Palazzo dei Normanni?
https://preview.redd.it/1mcxlp2bztmf1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e2a69bf25f2c50a5771a90409ca8b3d51a397e67
Does this count for Vatican City?
The Sistine Chapel should also count.
Rather… Is there any place in Vatican City that isn’t technically a government building of some sort?
This is the Andalucía parliament where our politicians think where to slam the Junta de Andalucía logo in it
Crazy to think that this was a Hospital before, also, the camera of the parliament is a desacralized church
https://preview.redd.it/2ymhxy5w1umf1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e953149527d1a02c284cc166efeecbf36515de64
Edit Reddit didn’t upload the photo
We definitely had the cutest one (1986-93):
https://preview.redd.it/c3hczn0a2umf1.jpeg?width=3648&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e46052f2c674a7ad8158af2879bc716cc8a0ce86
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