Palace of
Parliament
this palace, in Bucharest, Romania houses both
chambers of the Romanian Parliament and is the world's biggest
civilian administrative structure, as well as the most expensive
and heaviest. Nicolae Ceausescu called it the "House of the
Republic", but the people called it, the "People's House". It
measures 890 feet by 790 feet by 282 feet high, with 302 feet
underground; containing 1100 rooms, 12 stories high, four
underground levels for public use and another four in various
stages of completion, and two underground parking garages. It
incorporates numerous architectural styles called eclectic
neoclassical with elements and motifs from numerous sources. It
is build with materials almost completely from the country, and
include a million cubic meters of marble from Transylvania, with
the majority coming from Ruschita, 700,000 tons of steel and
bronze for the huge doors and windows, chandeliers and capitals,
480 chandeliers, 3500 tons of crystal, 1409 ceiling lights and
mirrors, 9,700,000 square feet of wood, with more than 95%
local, for wainscoting and parquet that includes oak, elm,
walnut, sweet cherry and sycamore maple, velvet and brocade
curtains that have been adorned with passementeries and
embroideries in gold and silver, 2,200,000 square feet of woolen
carpets of different dimensions, with the biggest ones created
on-site with machines that had to be moved into the building
first.
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