City hall
Queensland Parliament
Sandstone Renaissance Revival legislature built in stages across a budget-blown two decades.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Queensland Parliament House in Brisbane follows the money behind the sandstone walls around you, from a rejected eighteen sixty-four design and a blown budget cap through the colony's financial crisis of the following years. You will hear about architect Charles Tiffin, the rival design he beat, and the imported roof that arrived the wrong way. It traces how one wing became two, decades apart, as the building kept outgrowing every number set for it.
This audio guide was created using AI.