New Zealand's Parliament Buildings

It has been another nice day [albeit a bit cooler than last weekend] in Wellington, so I popped down the road for a few minutes at lunchtime to take these pictures of two of the main buildings in the Parliamentary complex - The Executive Wing [aka The Beehive] and Parliament House.

The Beehive was designed in 1964 and built in stages between 1969 and 1979. Details from the official parliamentary website are here. Parliament House replaced the original building which burned down in the early 1900's. Click here for more information.

Finally, New Zealand would have to be one of the few countries where we still have the freedom to walk up to Parliament without hindrance [they do tours as well]!