Shot from the Buda side across the Danube, where the whole building presents itself flat-on and drops a column of gold straight down the water. It is neo-Gothic, enormous, and was finished in 1902 for a country that then spent most of the following century unable to use it as intended. Long exposure to smooth the river, exposed for the floodlighting so the sky stays properly dark.

Parliament
Budapest, Hungary · December 2017
1D X Mark II, 50 millimetres, f 22, 4 seconds, ISO 400
The third largest parliament building in the world, and it is all frontage.
Part of Night Cities, a series.