The Christchurch Town Hall 1965-2019
A dream renewed
$22.15
- Hardcover
248 pages
- Release Date
5 December 2019
Summary
The 2019 re-opening of the Christchurch Town Hall is celebrated in this richly illustrated volume. Threatened with demolition following earthquake damage in 2011, the building has been renewed through seismic strengthening, restoration and repair. With contributions from those who shaped its original design, along with accounts of the renewal project and the story of the hall’s Rieger organ, this book explains why the Christchurch Town Hall is of both national and international significance. …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781988503103 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1988503108 |
| Author: | Ian Lochhead, John Hare, Harold Marshall, Peter Marshall, Martin Setchell, Duncan Shaw-Brown, Olivia Spencer-Bower, Miles Warren |
| Publisher: | Canterbury University Press |
| Imprint: | Canterbury University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 248 |
| Release Date: | 5 December 2019 |
| Weight: | 600g |
| Dimensions: | 26mm x 220mm x 250mm |
Ian Lochhead
Ian Lochhead taught Art History at the University of Canterbury from 1981 to 2014. He has written extensively on the history of New Zealand architecture from the colonial period to the Christchurch School. His book, A Dream of Spires: Benjamin Mountfort and the Gothic Revival’, was published by CUP in 1999. He was an early advocate for the restoration of the Christchurch Town Hall following the 2011 Canterbury earthquakes; his articleLet our public living room live again’, was published in `The Press’ on 20 March 2012. The Society of Architectural Historians of Australia and New Zealand made him a life member in 2013.
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