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Parliament House was designed by Mitchell/Giurgola & Thorp Architects and built by Concrete Constructions and John Holland joint venture. [1] It was opened on 9 May 1988 by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia. It cost more than $1.1 billion [2] (equivalent to about $4.9 billion in 2022) to build.
Old Parliament House, formerly known as the Provisional Parliament House, was the seat of the Parliament of Australia from 1927 to 1988. The building began operation on 9 May 1927 after Parliament's relocation from Melbourne to the new capital, Canberra .
However, due to the intervention of events such as World War I, the provisional Parliament House (now called ‘Old Parliament House’) was not completed until 1927. This building opened in 1927 and served as the home of Federal Parliament until 1988.
Parliament House was opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on 9 May 1988. It was the biggest building project undertaken in Australia since the construction of the Snowy Mountain Hydro-electric Scheme in the 1960s.
Discover the architecture. Parliament House is the heart of Australian parliamentary democracy, and one of the most open parliamentary buildings in the world. Its design was chosen from more than 320 entries to an international competition.
After the official opening, from 1901 to 1927 the Parliament met in Parliament House, Melbourne, which it borrowed from the Parliament of Victoria (which sat, instead, in the Royal Exhibition Building until 1927). The Big Picture, opening of the Parliament of Australia, 9 May 1901, by Tom Roberts.
The building was designed by John Smith Murdoch (not related to the media family) and situated on the spot where Walter Burley Griffin popped it in his original design for Canberra back in 1911. Construction of Parliament House, Canberra, probably 1926 http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-153297008.
