The Palace of the Parliament, initially designed under Communist rule as the People's House or the House of the Republic, is the seat of the Parliament of Romania, sited atop Dealul Spirii in Bucharest, the national capital. Reaching 84 meters in height and extending 92 meters underground, with a floor area of 365,000 square meters and a volume of 2,550,000 cubic meters, it is the heaviest building in the world, weighing about 4,098,500 tonnes, and the largest civilian administrative building in the world, smaller only than the United States Pentagon among administrative buildings generally.
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Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
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1. Palace of the Parliament (Wikipedia)
Wikipediaopening paragraph, first sentence
The Palace of the Parliament (Romanian: Palatul Parlamentului), initially designed during Communist times as the People's House (Casa Poporului) or (less frequently used) the House of the Republic (Casa Republicii), is the seat of the Parliament of Romania, located atop Dealul Spirii in Bucharest, the national capital.
opening paragraph, first sentence (location clause)
is the seat of the Parliament of Romania, located atop Dealul Spirii in Bucharest, the national capital.
opening paragraph, second sentence
The Palace reaches a height of 84 m (276 ft), is 92 m (302 ft) deep underground, has a floor area of 365,000 m2 (3,930,000 sq ft) and a volume of 2,550,000 m3 (90,000,000 cu ft).
design and construction section, timeline sentence
The building was designed and supervised by chief architect Anca Petrescu, with a team of approximately 700 architects, and constructed over a period of 13 years (1984-1997) in modernist Neoclassical architectural forms and styles, with socialist realism in mind.
Entity description and the lead of the Wikipedia article
The Palace of the Parliament, initially designed under Communist rule as the People's House or the House of the Republic, is the seat of the Parliament of Romania, sited atop Dealul Spirii in Bucharest, the national capital. Reaching 84 meters in height and extending 92 meters underground, with a floor area of 365,000 square meters and a volume of 2,550,000 cubic meters, it is the heaviest building in the world, weighing about 4,098,500 tonnes, and the largest civilian administrative building in the world, smaller only than the United States Pentagon among administrative buildings generally.
In Style: Postmodern Architecture, Infobox, architectural_style
architectural_style: Postmodern (mainly Neoclassical, described as "Neo-Neoclassical")
In Style: Neoclassical Architecture, Infobox, architectural_style
architectural_style: Postmodern (mainly Neoclassical, described as "Neo-Neoclassical")
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- Wikidata Q164150, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
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