That's a beautiful photo of an extraordinary building OH.
In fact, MicShazam and me talked about it some time ago. Surely, before you posted, you read the previous 376 posts in this thread ?
Spoiler for More about the Govt Palace, Bucharest:
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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic
The population of Romania is round the 20 million mark, not much more than some of the world's bigger cities. But if you're running the kind of repressive regime that Ceaușescu was operating, you need a pretty big office to operate from. Here's the totally OTT Government Palace in Bucharest:-
(i) unimpressive rear entrance showing the scale of the building: (check out the size of the cars):
(ii) main facade, like a Vegas hotel:
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Originally Posted by MicShazam
^Damn, that's overkill. Half of those rooms are probably just filled with pool tables and/or spiderwebs.
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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic
^ HaHa! Apparently it has 1,100 rooms, so they could probably squeeze in a pool table somewhere. Other surprising stats:-
* After the Pentagon, it's the biggest admin building in the world.
* It has eight levels underground, incl nuclear bomb shelters, which makes it the heaviest building in the world.
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_the_Parliament) |