Grand National Assembly of Turkey - Ankara, Turkey
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N 39° 54.713 E 032° 51.063
36S E 487269 N 4417988
Curent building of Grand National Assembly of Turkey
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Location: Türkiye
Date Posted: 10/03/2012
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On 11 January 1937, it was decided to start to a project contest for the construction of a new parliament building, which would be suitable for the performance of the republic of Turkey and architectural characteristics of 21th century.
That contest finished on 28 January 1928, in this contest there were 14 projects that participated but finally Clemens Holzmeister project was chosen. And construction of building has started on 26 October 1939.
Opening of building has become late because of 2. World War. It finished and opened for use on January 1961.
The building located on a 475,521 square meter plot of land and the settlement area of the main building is 19,372 square meters. Total space is 56,775 square meters.
The architectural characteristics and the general structure of the TGNA building has been designed in order to symbolize the strength and immortality of the Republic of Turkey.
The Main Building include general assembly hall administrative offices the meeting rooms of the committees, the Assembly library, the computer centre, archive, offices set aside for the press and publication organizations, two large restaurants, the barber and shoe-shine shops, the PTT, the airline and rail-road ticket sales offices and the General Secretariat and the connected service units.
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