DAVID WALKER, CHARLIE GATES/STUFF
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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You can’t go past Tūranga as a post-quake success story.
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