Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2021L01869:reg:4:p11
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2021L01869
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 4 (pt 11/63)
Character Range: 374707–377847

the Senate's Office, Members' Bar, Government Party Room and Leader of the Government in the Senate's Office.

OFFICIAL VALUES
Criteria                             Values
                                     King's Hall and the Chambers are important for reflecting the austerity of the times and the style. The rooms tend to be simple spaces with little decoration with subtle and repeated classical references, such as the use of Greek key patterning evident in the Chambers, and the external metal and rendered balustrades. Some of the rooms have a certain grandeur being generously proportioned with clerestory windows. The use of timber for wall or ceiling paneling and furniture also distinguishes some rooms highlighting the hierarchy of government.
                                     The importance of the Parliamentary Library as a source of reference for Parliament, is demonstrated by its position on the central axis of the building and in close proximity to both Chambers, and is also accessible from King's Hall. The design and fit-out of the Library rooms feature extensive timber paneling and fittings, otherwise reserved for high-status spaces such as the Chambers, the Party Rooms, and office holders' rooms.
                                     The building is also of interest for surviving features consistent with, if not influenced by, Garden City ideals. These include the courtyards with loggias and pergolas, and verandahs, a principal feature of the garden city ideal that linked internal spaces with the landscape setting. Also included in this principle are the adjacent Senate and House of Representatives gardens, substantially redeveloped but containing the layout pattern of the original gardens.
E Aesthetic characteristics          Old Parliament House is an iconic national landmark that has a major role in the symbolic physical representation of democracy in the Parliamentary Triangle. The landmark importance has been strengthened by the siting and design of (new) Parliament House that brought together the two buildings as a combined feature of historical sequence on the land axis vista. The two buildings sited on the Land Axis contribute to the planned aesthetic qualities of the Parliamentary Triangle. The two buildings represent the primacy of Parliament over the executive and judicial components of government.
                                     Old Parliament House is a major component of public and familiar views of Canberra with its crisp lines, stark white colour, pronounced vertical patterns and classical form and makes a major contribution as a viewpoint towards the Australian War Memorial and in the other direction to the Australian Parliament House.
                                     The building is highly valued by people as reflected in its popularity in countless images and since 1988 images that are strengthened by the presence of (new) Parliament House.
F Creative or technical achievement  Old Parliament House is a landmark in Canberra, as a major component of the Walter Burley Griffin's designed landscape of the Parliamentary Triangle, designed to hold the