"The Beehive" in Wellington, New Zealand

December 1969 Issue

Staying right where it is, thank you very much!

January’s photo depicts “The Beehive,” the Executive Wing of New Zealand’s Parliament buildings, located in Wellington, North Island. Based on a sketch drawn on a napkin by Sir Basil Spence, it was built in the 1970s.

Twenty years later there was a proposal to move the entire structure in order to extend the building that houses Parliament, but public outcry nixed that plan and, for now, anyway, the busy Prime Minister and his Cabinet can keep buzzing away on the corner of Molesworth Street and Lambton Quay.

Forty readers sent in the correct answer and ROBERT T. PANDOLFO of Punta Gorda, Florida, won the drawing. We thank Marion Rafferty of Easton, Pennsylvania, for sending in the photo.