Buildings and Users

The Parliamentary Zone (excluding Parliament House and its circular site is 102.75 hectares or just over a million square metres in area, including the internal roads. Existing buildings consist, broadly, of Old Parliament House, government departments and national institutions with the following total floor areas in square metres:

Old Parliament House (1927)

Old Parliament House
25,000 sqm

East Block and West Block (1927)

National Archives of Australia, Australian Electoral Commission
12,000 sqm

Lobby Restaurant (1968)

160 sqm

Treasury Building (1970)

Department of the Treasury
37,000 sqm

John Gorton Building [including 2 basements] (1956)

Department of Finance and Administration; Department of the Environment and Heritage
55,000 sqm

National Library of Australia (1968), High Court of Australia (1980) National Gallery of Australia (1982)

90,800 sqm

National Gallery Extension (1998)

3225 sqm

National Science and Technology Centre (1988)

14,000 sqm

Total floor space = 237,185 sqm

Expressed as a ratio of the total site area: 0.23:1

Parliament House (1988)

96,700 sqm