Seat of the National Assembly of Hungary, built on the east bank of the
Danube in the Pest district. Imre Steindl won the 1882 competition with
a Gothic Revival design that looked to the Palace of Westminster, though
he gave it a symmetrical Renaissance Revival plan and a Romanesque
Revival central dome that recalls the crown of Saint Stephen. It has 691
rooms, 88 statues of Hungarian kings on the outside and a 268-metre
façade, which puts it among the largest parliament buildings in the
world. The architect went blind before it opened.
