The Parliament Building in Windhoek, called the Tintenpalast or Ink Palace, was designed by Gottlieb Redecker and built by Sander & Kock. The infobox names Bruno von Schuckmann as client. Construction ran from 1912 to 1913, and it opened on April 12, 1913. The front facade is Neoclassical, and the text says it used regional materials.
The text says Herero and Nama people who survived the genocide, and were held in concentration camps, built it with forced labor. The name refers to the heavy use of ink during construction. The infobox gives a cost of 450,000 marks and a renovation from December 2009 to May 2012.
It became the seat of the National Assembly at independence in 1990 and now houses both houses of the Parliament of Namibia. A 2014 constitutional change increased the number of parliamentarians, prompting calls for a larger building. Parliament Gardens surrounds it. The article gives no hours.
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