Parliament House (Sydney)

The Parliament House of New South Wales (parliament building) in Sydney is part of a historical building complex in Sydney, Australia. It was formerly a part of a hospital, which was built from 1811 to 1816; It is located in the city center in Macquarie Street and is one of the oldest buildings in Sydney.

History

The Parliament House was established as the north wing of the Sydney Hospital. This hospital is also Rum Hospital named because it was funded by the award of a state monopoly on rum. The Bauinitiative goes back to the Governor Lachlan Macquarie in 1810. The building has two floors, the columns were decorated in the Doric style. The construction was completed in 1816, but already during the construction of the three-wing hospital there were critical discussions about the construction. Macquarie commissioned to create an expertise on the construction of the convict architect Francis Greenway and. The result was that he criticized both the technical quality of the construction and the design of the particular column proportions.

In the original building of the Parliament there was the district of the chief surgeon. As the New South Wales Legislative Council was constituted in 1824, a Legislative Assembly, it was housed in the Old Parliament House in Parramatta first. But when in 1829 the number of members of Parliament was increased from 5 to 15 members, the spaces in Parramatta meetings in the north wing were too small and instead. Only two rooms remained the chief surgeon reserved and the other five rooms were taken by employees of the Council and other officials to complete. The Legislative Council consisted of 36 members from 1843, it ranged from the rooms and not the new Council took the entire wing of a claim. Further need arose in 1856 in New South Wales, the two-chamber system has been introduced. These meetings took place at the south end of the grounds of the hospital in a new building consisting of iron. The building was prefabricated in England and built in Sydney. The new chambers attended their meetings on May 22, 1856. The new building was not ideal, it was mainly because of the metal roof poor acoustics, ventilation and illumination.

In the years 1931 to 1936 was in the building the first Museum of Australia, a small natural history collection. The cafeteria of the Parliament was built behind the hospital building in 1969 and the Library of Parliament, which was built in 1850, grew over time and was associated with the Greenway Room and the Jubilee Room, the Reading Room, in the parliament building in 1906.

In 1974 a start was made largely restore the original state of the building again. The Parliamentary Library has been transferred to the new 12-storey administration building and was completed in 1980. The interior of the two chambers was 1985 again so constructed as to have looked in 1892.

Structure

In the building of the present Parliament resides. It consists of two chambers, the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly and the Department of Parliamentary Services. The administration of Parliament is run by Chief Executive Officer of each chamber, Clerk of the Parliaments ( Clerk of the Legislative Council ) and Clerk of the Legislative Assembly. Furthermore, there is the Parliamentary Services an executive manager.