Three palaces have stood here. Elias David Häusser began the first Christiansborg in 1733, and Nicolai Eigtved designed the chapel interior from 1738 to 1742 and the Rococo Marble Bridge, finished in 1744. A fire in 1794 ruined the palace and church. Christian Frederik Hansen built the second palace from 1803 to 1828, and it burned in 1884.
Thorvald Jørgensen won the competition for the current palace, built from 1907 to 1928 in a Neo-Baroque style, in reinforced concrete with granite-covered facades. Its tower is 348 feet (106 m) high and is the tallest in the city. The roof was retiled in copper in 1937 and 1938.
It houses Parliament, the Prime Minister's Office and the Supreme Court, which the article says makes it the only building in the world to hold all three. The monarch uses the Royal Reception Rooms, the Palace Chapel and the Royal Stables. The tower platform is free but requires a security check.
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