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With the Christchurch City Council approving the plans for the Court Theatre to join the performing arts precinct, the Court Theatre artistic director Ross Gumbley is excited for the future. (Video first published in July 2018)
A new annual festival that will see 46 Christchurch buildings opened to the public next weekend aims to help members of the public rediscover the city. PHILIP MATTHEWS reports. Does Jessica Halliday have a favourite post-earthquake Christchurch building? No, that’s impossible. But she can offer up a shortlist.
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Turanga, Christchurch s central library, is an anchor project in Cathedral Square. Photo / ChristchurchNZ
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Architectural writer and editor
John Walsh gives his guide to the best buildings to look out for on a walk around Christchurch
All cities are to some extent intentional but Christchurch, far more than most cities, didn t just happen. It was conceived in England, in the middle of the 19th century, as an Anglican settlement centred on a cathedral, bordered by a park and laid out as a rectangular grid of streets awaiting the buildings that would inevitably occur as prosperity caught up with colonial ambition.