Reichstag, Berlin: Overall view of west facade

Constructed to house the Reichstag, parliament of the German Empire. It was opened in 1894 and housed the Reichstag until 1933, when it was severely damaged in a fire. In public buildings a monumental, primarily Baroque Revival style, with varying degrees of classicism, was established from the accession of William II in 1888, in particular in the Reichstag by Paul Wallot. After the Second World War the Reichstag building fell into disuse since the parliament of the German Democratic Republic met in the Palace of the Republic in East Berlin and the parliament of the Federal Republic of Germany met in the Bundeshaus in Bonn. After the reunification of Germany on October 3, 1990, when it underwent reconstruction led by architect Norman Foster. After its completion in 1999, it became the meeting place of the modern German parliament, the Bundestag.