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The new Parliament House (reached by way of Kings Avenue or Commonwealth Avenue) nestles into Capital Hill rather than dominate it. It was designed as the final fulfillment of Burley Griffin's vision of 1912. In order to fit it into its site the top of Capital Hill was leveled off. An international competition for the design of the new building was won by a New York architect, the foundation stone was laid in 1979 and Parliament House was formally opened by the Queen on May 9th 1988, the 200th anniversary of the landing of the First Fleet. (The first Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia had met in Melbourne on May 9th 1901, and Parliament had first met in Old Parliament House on May 9th 1927.)
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