Black Tortoise mountains provide support.
up the house. Exposed columns are generally not encouraged in feng shui, and in this
makes it look like this government needs a lot of support to hold
the main entrance, the entire hall is filled with columns clad in marble. This
As you enter from Boomerang design of Parliament House.
building, they do look excessive!
On the other hand, having the building in an enclosed circular design, with roads going around the building itself can also signify that the wealth does not leave the site; instead, any asset wealth created accumulates and gets retained within.
DRAGON & TIGER WALLS The visitor to the building will notice there are no natural mountains on either side of the building, so there is no natural Dragon and Tiger for the building; but it does seem like the builders took some kind of feng shui advice as the building design seems to simulate the “presence of these celestial creatures” via the embracing walls that stretch out on the left and on the right; basically this artificially symbolizes the Dragon and the Tiger! Outside at the front of the building, there is a water feature. This has a circular design and activates for good growth luck. Unfortunately, this is a PERIOD 7 building, so the chi is tired, and the Period 7 flying stars are not helpful any more. The water can be a source of disharmony even as it brings good growth luck. People working in the building will thus have very mixed luck indeed.
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Too many pillars cause too many shadows and cause shar chi to be created.
TWO BOOMERANGS The building is in the shape of two boomerangs enclosed within a circle. This clearly demarcates two groups separated and going head- to-head against each other. The building structure and configuration creates a bow and arrow situation, sending “poison arrows” to each other and to themselves; in other words, the building encourages a hotbed of “internal politics”. Anyone following Australian politics will realize just how much their building is contributing to the political problems there.
FLAGPOLE STABBING THE BUILDING? Then there is the flagpole placed on top the roof of the building with the flag flown at 81 metres high. The flagpole is 12.8m by 64.4m, about the size of half a tennis court with a weight of about 220 tonnes of stainless steel. The purpose of this design was to represent the pinnacle of the parliament house, so that it is easily recognizable as the symbol of national government, and is visible by day on the outside and by night with floodlights from inside the building. In terms of feng shui design, this would look like a sharp spear waiting to fall into the center of the building, piercing into the heart! This can take a toll on the health of the people working within this building; and problems can manifest as conditions involving the internal organs or heart.
FAÇADE FULL OF HOLES The façade of the building was designed deliberately to imitate some of the patterns of the Old Parliament House, with white colonial-style structures. However, with a design like this, it has created a view of what we call the “Holes in the Building”
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