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When you enter the European Parliament building, you pass an arch and end up in a sort of oval entrance hall; it's a 60m high tower with an open patio surrunded by 1,133 offices spread over 17 floors/levels.

Twelve weeks a year the European Parliament moves from Brussels to Strasbourg, a move that costs around €140 million/£90 million a year in tax.
The complex in Strasbourg was build/finished in 1999 and was designed by Architecture Studio Europe. The building costs around €380 million/£250 million and contains 1.133 offices, 29 conference rooms, four bars and three restaurants with seating for 1.200 people.

Also, the plenary room (picture of that to come later) is the largest single room in Europe and it feels more like and arena or amphitheatre with the politics down in the pit. I'm not sure if this is true, but I read this on a website and thought it was kind of funny (and expensive considering the fact it is only used for 12 weeks a year): "At the heart of the Strasbourg palace sits Europe's largest single room, an amphitheatre with optical fibre lights, designed to blink more or less intensely according to the sound level of parliamentary debates."