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Practice Listening: Multiple Choice, Single Answer
ID: #3751
Medium
Beehive
Transcript:
The Beehive is the common name for the executive wing of the New Zealand parliament buildings, so called because its shape is very much like a traditional woven beehive. It’s ten story is high with the levels becoming incrementally smaller, the higher up they are. Scottish architect Sir Basil Spence did the original conceptual design in 1964 but the detailed design of the building was by the Ministry of works and they carried it through the fruition- it was opened by the Queen in 1977. When it was built, it was supposed to embody the spirit of New Zealand as a nation but it’s never really had that recognition in the way that buildings like, say, the Sydney opera house have had. In a way, I suppose the beehive was – for a long time - seen as an unfortunate hangover from the 1960s, but time has passed to the point where people’s feelings about it have gone through a kind of ironic celebration to real appreciation now.
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