Palace of Parliament Bucharest

The Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest, Romania is the world's second largest administrative building, after the Pentagon. Its original name was the House of the People (Casa Poporului), but it was renamed (in the post-Communist era) first during the 1989 Revolution with the derogatory name of House of Ceauşescu and then as the Palace of the Parliament. However, to this day, most of the Romanians retain the old name and call it Casa Poporului.

The new seat of the Parliament is an imposing building, extending over 64,800 sq.m. Raised between 1984 and 1989 on the Uranus Hill (also called the Arsenal Hill) according to the plans of a group of Romanian architects coordinated by Anca Petrescu, the edifice is rectangularly shaped, its façade having 270 m. Its height is of 84 m, and it goes 92 m under ground. The 440 offices, the dozens of reception halls, the halls destined to scientific, cultural and socio-political events (out of which 20 halls have each an area between 200 and 700 sq.m.) and the dozens of conference and assembly halls (3 halls have between 1,000 and 1,500 sq.m.), rank this edifice as the second in the world after the Pentagon bulding in Washington, D.C. (604,000 sq.m., larger than the Pyramid of Keops).
In point of volume (2.55 mill. cu.m.), the People's House is the third in the world, after the building of Cape Canaveral where the spaceships are assemblied (3.67 mill. cu.m.), and the Pyramid of Quetzalcoatl in Mexico (3.3 mill. cu.m.).
The offices belong to certain State Institutions and to the Parliament, while the conference halls, luxurious and modernly equipped, represent the ideal place for holding international meetings, concerts and musical festivals.