The Ständehaus was built between 1901 and 1906 by Paul Wallot and is thus the most recent building on Dresden’s famous riverside skyline. The old House of Finance(Finanzhaus), the Charonisches Haus and the Brühl Palace (Brühlsche Palais) were demolished in order to make way for the monumental new Renaissance-style building erected to house the Landtag.The building, with its restrained architectural features, is built on a trapezoid site and is very formal in its structure. It has a nine-axis frontage facing the Schloßplatz, with a massive three-axis central forepart. On top of the tower is a golden statue of “Saxonia”, which was made in 1905 by Johannes Schilling. The building itself is a heavy brick structure, the outer walls being clad in the “best Saxon white weather-proof material”, sandstone. The interior was designed by Otto Gußmann, Wilhelm Kreis and Richard Riemerschmid.