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Beehive: Exterior
1/6 · ExteriorPhoto: Michal Klajban · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Beehive: Exterior
2/6 · ExteriorPhoto: Michal Klajban · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Beehive: Exterior · Beehive and Parliament House, Wellington - New Zealand
3/6 · Exterior · Beehive and Parliament House, Wellington - New ZealandPhoto: Daderot · CC0 · source
Beehive: Exterior · Beehive, Wellington
4/6 · Exterior · Beehive, WellingtonPhoto: Christoph Strässler from Oberdorf BL, Schweiz · CC BY-SA 2.0 · source
Beehive: Interior · A staricase leading up to the Beehive in Wellington, New Zealand
5/6 · Interior · A staricase leading up to the Beehive in Wellington, New ZealandPhoto: Panamitsu · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Beehive: Interior
6/6 · InteriorPhoto: Corporal Naomi James/NZ Defense Force · CC BY 4.0 · source
Photo 1: ExteriorPhoto 2: ExteriorPhoto 3: Exterior · Beehive and Parliament House, Wellington - New ZealandPhoto 4: Exterior · Beehive, WellingtonPhoto 5: Interior · A staricase leading up to the Beehive in Wellington, New ZealandPhoto 6: Interior

Civic · Late modernism

Beehive

Basil Spence · Wellington, NZ · 1981

Key featuresStacked circular floors in a conical drum, ringed by projecting sunshades under a copper roof.

Architect
Basil Spence
Place
Wellington, NZ
Year
1981
Typology
Civic
Movement
Late modernism
Region
Oceania
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