The population of Romania is slightly less than the pop of Greater London, both being round the 20 million mark. But if you're running the kind of repressive regime that Ceaușescu was operating, you need a pretty big office to operate from. Here's the totally OTT Government Palace in Bucharest:-

(i) unimpressive rear entrance showing the scale of the building: (check out the size of the cars):

https://www.local-life.com/bucharest...parliament.jpg

(ii) main facade, like a Vegas hotel:

https://balkangreenenergynews.com/wp...in-Romania.jpg

In comparison, the Mayor of London administrates from one small office block; (check out the size of the people ):-

http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/iede/files/20...-City-Hall.jpg

Bottom Line: For admin, Bucharest wins on architecture but loses on governance.

^Damn, that's overkill. Half of those rooms are probably just filled with pool tables and/or spiderwebs.

^ HaHa! Apparently it has 1,100 rooms, so they could probably squeeze in a pool table somewhere. Other surprising stats:-

* After the Pentagon, it's the biggest admin building in the world.
* It has eight levels underground, incl nuclear bomb shelters, which makes it the heaviest building in the world.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_the_Parliament)

Do you mean the London metropolitan area or another boundary?

For some reason, the number of floors seems way more excessive to me when 8 of them are underground. Makes it seem like some kind of bond villain hideout.

These are the figures I found on wiki before I posted that comparison:-

On a related map, London was shown as pretty much everything inside the M25, but yeah, figures vary a lot depending on where you define the boundary.

^ Yes, it seems excessive, but that's what wiki says. I count, at its highest, ten floors above ground, and of course the bit below ground is presumably much smaller in floor area. Wiki mentions an anti nuclear bunker with conc walls 1.5m thick, so yes, a classic Bond villain hideout!

Vincent Callebaut has some amazing designs.. I'm not sure how many have been realized.

TAO ZHU YIN YUAN proj Vincent Callebaut

https://images.adsttc.com/media/imag...jpg?1480100333

Those apartments kind of remind me of the turning torso in Malmö

https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/me...ning-torso.jpg


Anyway,other architecture greats. I always liked the moorish palaces of Southern Spain because of how they integrate nature and geometry. I mean, they are so detail rich.

Alcazar in Seville, Spain
https://devoursevillefoodtours.com/w...-web-size.jpeg

The Alhambra, Granda

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/wwfeatures/w...g/p05d1gkg.jpg
(The neat thing about this place is that there is a Parador in the Alhambra. A Parador is a state hotel where you can stay for the night. I know that Washington Irving stayed there (the guy who wrote the "Headless Horseman" tale).

And , for another area of the world:
The Giger bar in Switzerland (for those Alien fans)
http://www.hrgiger.com/images/gigerb...yeres_0159.jpg

It's all in the details.

I think you mean Moopish, not Moorish.