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GO NZ: An expert s guide to Christchurch s best buildings
28 Jan, 2021 03:30 AM
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Turanga, Christchurch s central library, is an anchor project in Cathedral Square. Photo / ChristchurchNZ
NZ Herald
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.