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Image Gallery - Front of Parliament House

The central colonnaded section of Parliament House, facing Macquarie Street, was completed in 1816 as the surgeon's accommodation in Sydney's first permanent hospital. The Chambers on either side were added in 1843 and 1856, although the facades of both have since been extended towards Macquarie Street. Many other additions were made to the Parliament buildings over the years but these proved inadequate to the needs of a modern Parliament. Finally, in 1975-85, all of the old buildings behind the historic hospital and Chamber buildings on Macquarie Street were removed and major new sections were added to the Parliament building. Even though these included a new twelve-storey structure, the new sections were designed to ensure that they did not overwhelm the small scale of the historic Macquarie Street frontage. Set back and partly underground, they are, in fact, hardly visible from Macquarie Street.

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