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Thursday, 29 April 2021, 2:11 pm
Explore the nooks and crannies of Jack, James, Ernest,
Beatrice and parts of the original city campus including the
new ‘Old Chemistry’, as the 147-year-old University of
Canterbury (UC) opens its architecturally designed doors for
Open Christchurch weekend, 15-16 May.
Open
Christchurch is a one-weekend-only festival of exceptional
architecture. It’s for everyone to experience great
building design from the inside, for free.
Jack Erskine
building (UC Ilam campus)
ARCHITECT:
Architectus, Cook Hitchcock Sargeson & Perry Royal,
1994
This refined, cellular structure is a
contemporary salute to modernist architectural history. It
was designed to house the University of Canterbury’s