NationStates Jolt Archive

Which Parliament House do you prefer, Old, or New?

I prefer the Old Parliament House, its got more "personality", and the architecture, and decor of the new one seems designed to make people insignificant, and that "puddle" on the forecourt makes it more difficult for crowds to gather out the front. I can't help thinking someone showed the designer some footage from Remembrance Day 1975, and he thought "can't let a demo like that happen again".

Old Parliament House Website: http://www.oph.gov.au/

Current Parliament House Website: http://www.aph.gov.au/

Which house is the crazy-looking one that looks kinda like a bunch of sails pointing toward the water? That one's my favorite.. :p

The New one.

New Parliament House

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/NewParliamentHouseInCanberra.jpg

Old Parliament House

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/ba/Old_Parliament_House.jpg

The New one.


Wuh? I was trying to make a joke about the Sydney Operahouse.. probably the only building in Australia I would recognize offhand. :p

I think that says a lot about the design of the current Parliament House. Call me strange, but I don't see it as the sort of place where men like Gough Whitlam, and Malcolm Fraser would battle it out, not in some pastel-coloured monstrosity.