Anca Petrescu, the architect of Romania's Parliament Palace, died on Wednesday at the Floreasca Hospital in Bucharest.

Petrescu, 64, had been admitted at the hospital after a traffic accident in August in western city of Timisoara. According to earlier reports, Petrescu sustained injuries in a car accident on August 5, near Timisoara. In early September she slipped into a coma.

The Parliament Palace is the world's second-largest administrative building and one of Romania's biggest tourist attractions. Construction officially began in 1984 and the building measures 270 meters in width and 240 meters in length.

Petrescu graduated in 1973 from the Ion Mincu Institute of Architecture in Bucharest. In 1980, she won a national competition to design the "House of the Republic," the current Palace of Parliament.

It was intended to serve as the headquarters for all the major state institutions: the presidency, parliament, the council of ministers and the supreme court.