The existing parliamentary building was raised in 1924 and first served as a club for officers.
This is not just a parliamentary building.
Inexplicably, Akmola itself will have two sets of parliamentary, presidential and ministerial buildings.
Newer municipal buildings including the city's courts and the province's main parliamentary building soon followed.
The new parliamentary buildings were built on Duwa, a 50,000 square metre (12 acre) island in the centre of the lake.
The original Reichstag building was proposed due to a need for a larger parliamentary building.
Although it is still uncertain how quickly the government will actually move, planning for construction of parliamentary and ministerial buildings is well under way.
Further extensions to the parliamentary building were made.
We are now at phase one of the new parliamentary buildings - the first stage of a long-overdue improvement in accommodation facilities for Members.
"Fine - except with 158 new members, accommodation is a bit of a problem," I began (we didn't have the spanking new parliamentary building then).