Parliament House

Built both atop and beneath Capital Hill, Parliament House is the meeting place of the Parliament of Australia. It also houses the core of the federal executive, including the cabinet room and the offices of the prime minister and other ministers. The building stands at the southern apex of Canberra's National Triangle, enclosed by State Circle at the point where Commonwealth, Adelaide, Canberra and Kings Avenues meet.

The modernist building was designed by Mitchell/Giurgola & Thorp Architects, with Romaldo Giurgola as architect, and cost more than $1.1 billion to construct. Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, officially opened it on 9 May 1988. That year members and their staff moved "up the hill" from Old Parliament House, where the Federal Parliament had sat since 1927, and the new building became known as New Parliament House.