Congratulations to the Dunedin City Council for its decisions to add an increased number of modern buildings to its district plan heritage schedule. Among them are the Archway Lecture Theatres at the University of Otago, the Cargill Court Apartments, the Church of the Holy Name, the Hercus Building, the Former Truby King Harris Hospital, the [...]
A legislative amendment passed by the National-led coalition government to make way for the demolition of a single heritage building – Wellington’s Gordon Wilson Flats (1954-59) – is a national disgrace. Similarly, Victoria University of Wellington’s determination to demolish a large concrete building, but particularly a block of flats during a housing crisis, is very [...]
DOCOMOMO New Zealand was shocked by the Wellington City Council’s vote on 14 March 2024 to remove multiple heritage buildings from its district plan schedule. The buildings proposed for descheduling are mostly modern. The move showed that New Zealand politicians remain ignorant of the heritage values of the modern, even though the broader issue of [...]
DOCOMOMO NZ is partnering with the University of Auckland’s Architecture and Planning History and Theory Research Hub to host a Zoom talk by architect Greg Young, who has led the conservation of Miles Warren’s Dorset Street Flats in Christchurch (1956-57), following damage sustained in the Canterbury earthquake sequence (2010-11). Greg will discuss the process of [...]
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DOCOMOMO NZ has proudly supported Open Chch over the last three years and was particularly happy to support the May 2023 event when a number of modern buildings were included on the programme and open to the public, among them Miles Warren’s Dorset Street Flats, and Warren and Mahoney’s Schneideman House and RC Webb Flats. [...]
The aim of the Greg Bowron Heritage Scholarship is to assist recipients to travel and/or study within New Zealand or overseas in the field of building or architectural conservation methods, history, techniques and philosophies for the purpose of investing their thus acquired expertise into the New Zealand context on their return to New Zealand. For [...]
Concerned citizens and Canterbury heritage groups including Historic Places Canterbury, IConIC and Civic Trust are appalled at the news that CERA has issued an s38 demolition order on the Christchurch Technical College (now CPIT) Memorial Hall at the request of CPIT. This imposing building was opened in 1935 as a specially designed memorial to the [...]
Opened on 1 March 1930, The Majestic Theatre was built for John Fuller & Sons. Billed as ‘The Showplace of Christchurch’, the Art Deco building contained three upper floors of offices, known as Majestic House. It is Christchurch’s first fully steel-framed building. The building is a Group 2 scheduled heritage building, of ‘national or regional [...]
St Joseph’s Catholic Church, Morrinsville, was designed in 1958-62 by Angus, Flood & Griffiths of Hamilton. Built in 1964-65, the design was radical, had simplicity in form both externally and internally, and strong Pacific form. The simple external upturned parabola defied the level of innovation and detailing, creating both the exterior and interior form with [...]