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The service will now be operated from the Christchurch City Council Service Centre, which is in the old post office building on Rue Lavaud. The planned opening date is Tuesday 3 September. Over the counter postal services will be offered Monday – Friday, 10am-2pm and post box services will be provided six days a week….
The festival will be returning for its fifth edition from 2 – 4 May to shine the light on Christchurch’s buildings and landscapes of architectural, cultural and historical significance. Washington Reserve Skatepark at Open Christchurch 2024 (1998; Convic, 2014). Photo by Peanut Productions. Te Pūtahi director Jessica Halliday encourages those who have a building they’d…
The festival will be returning for its fifth edition from 2 – 4 May to shine the light on Christchurch’s buildings and landscapes of architectural, cultural and historical significance. Washington Reserve Skatepark at Open Christchurch 2024 (1998; Convic, 2014). Photo by Peanut Productions. Te Pūtahi director Jessica Halliday encourages those who have a building they’d…
The service will now be operated from the Christchurch City Council Service Centre, which is in the old post office building on Rue Lavaud. The planned opening date is Tuesday 3 September. Over the counter postal services will be offered Monday – Friday, 10am-2pm and post box services will be provided six days a week….
“From 1 July 2024, we’re changing how we charge fees for building consents. This means customers applying for a building consent will pay a higher proportion of the total cost upfront than they did previously,” says Steffan Thomas, Christchurch City Council Head of Building Consenting. “We’re not increasing the cost. This is a change to…
Christchurch City Council staff recommend a rebuild of the facility. Read the recommendation. Waihoro Spreydon-Cashmere-Heathcote Community Board Chair Callum Ward says the South Library and Service Centre building was badly damaged in the 2010/2011 earthquakes. “The Council has made the facility safe to occupy with temporary strengthening, but the fact is it still has to…
The festival weekend will return from 3 to 5 May 2024, and offers a chance for anyone to share their inside knowledge and love of Ōtautahi’s best buildings. Reveal a hidden gem, a quiet achiever, or acknowledge well-frequented architectural works by putting forward places that are important to you. As seen in previous years and…
The festival weekend will return from 3 to 5 May 2024, and offers a chance for anyone to share their inside knowledge and love of Ōtautahi’s best buildings. Reveal a hidden gem, a quiet achiever, or acknowledge well-frequented architectural works by putting forward places that are important to you. As seen in previous years and…
The festival weekend will return from 3 to 5 May 2024, and offers a chance for anyone to share their inside knowledge and love of Ōtautahi’s best buildings. Reveal a hidden gem, a quiet achiever, or acknowledge well-frequented architectural works by putting forward places that are important to you. As seen in previous years and…
Leading the way in building a Canterbury Inter-School Enviro Network Our Youth Rōpū members are leading the way in building an inter-school enviro network for high school students in Christchurch. So far, Youth Rōpū members Amanda Kennedy and Shelby Allan have hosted three hui/meetings, all held at our office on Tuam Street. Shelby and Amanda,…
Elizabeth moved into her downstairs studio in February. The painter and print maker had been teaching painting full-time at Cashmere High School when a diagnosis of breast cancer changed the landscape. After a year of successful treatment in 2022, an opportunity for a studio came up at Toi Auaha, and she embraced it. The heritage-listed…
Canterbury Museum has found an ideal central city site for its pop-up museum and helped secure the future of a beloved Christchurch cultural institution in the process. The Museum will lease the CoCA Centre of Contemporary Art Toi Moroki building at 66 Gloucester Street from early February. From mid 2023, the building will house a…
Christchurch City Council is on the hunt for people interested in buying and relocating the former Opawa Children’s Library building. The building, located in Louisson Place, on the banks of the Ōpāwaho Heathcote River, has been surplus to requirements since the Opawa Children’s Library service moved into the rebuilt Opawa Library building on Richardson Terrace in…
Is there a building in Christchurch that has always intrigued you? Then nominate it for inclusion in next year’s Open Christchurch event. The popular one-weekend-only celebration of architectural excellence is scheduled to return on 6 and 7 May 2023 to shine the light on Christchurch’s buildings of architectural, cultural and historical significance. Jessica Halliday, director…
Investment activity in Christchurch’s city centre is continuing at pace with consenting data showing a healthy amount of new development work in the pipeline. “The number of building and resource consent applications that are coming through to the Council is a positive sign that people have confidence to invest in our Central City and believe…
Investment activity in Christchurch’s city centre is continuing at pace with consenting data showing a healthy amount of new development work in the pipeline. “The number of building and resource consent applications that are coming through to the Council is a positive sign that people have confidence to invest in our Central City and believe…
Rolleston House will get a new lease on life as a space for local artists. The heritage-listed building at 5 Worcester Boulevard was set to be disposed of by Christchurch City Council as part of last year’s Long Term Plan. However, today Councillors decided to retain the property for use as a community arts venue…
The MacFarlane Park Centre building may be gifted to the Shirley Community Trust for $1 if a Waipapa Papanui-Innes Community Board recommendation is given Christchurch City Council approval. The building was gifted to Council by the Lions Club International Foundation in 2018. It was shifted from Culverden, North Canterbury to St Albans and then MacFarlane…
Christchurch heritage building restored and re-opened The Lawrie and Wilson Auctioneers heritage building has been re-opened in a small ceremony, attended by representatives from Ngāi Tūāhiriri, Heritage New Zealand, Christchurch Civic Trust, Christchurch City Council, and other stakeholders alongside members of the project and construction team. Located next door to our Tuam Street offices, the…
The MacFarlane Park Centre building may be gifted to the Shirley Community Trust for $1 if a Waipapa Papanui-Innes Community Board recommendation is given Christchurch City Council approval. The building was gifted to Council by the Lions Club International Foundation in 2018. It was shifted from Culverden, North Canterbury to St Albans and then MacFarlane…
Building a more sustainable future with 3D concrete printed homes Advances in 3D concrete printing technologies are creating exciting opportunities to build homes faster, more sustainably and at reduced cost. University of Canterbury (UC), architectural engineer Dr Giuseppe Loporcaro is leading a research project to refine low-carbon, seismically resilient solutions for 3D printed homes suited…
NZ’s health service is failing some communities: building a better national system requires local partnerships Dr Kaaren Mathias and Dr Sarah Lovell highlight the importance of meaningful community co-design of health services in an article on The Conversation. Today is World Health day. Themed “our planet, our health”, it re-imagines a world where people have…
Digital Infrastructure and Technology solutions providers Teltrac has today announced they are opening in the southern region with presence in Dunedin, Invercargill and Queenstown. With offices already in Christchurch, Nelson, Wellington and Auckland, the organic expansion is testament to their employee’s dedication and the result of client demand for their hands-on service levels, offering the…
Christchurch’s Richmond suburb will soon have a new community hub, following the gifting of a red-zoned property by Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) to the Richmond Community Gardens Trust. The Minister for Land Information, Damien O’Connor said that LINZ, on behalf of the Crown, will gift a Vogel Street house to the local trust to…
Bespoke architectural homes in a park-like setting are at the heart of a ‘legacy project’ in Wanaka for someone whose name is synonymous with New Zealand building. Astute businessman and building industry pioneer David Reid founded the business which bore his name in 1993. It grew to be recognised throughout New Zealand and Australia, winning…
Financial woes have finally forced the beleaguered Christchurch Memorial RSA to sell its new inner city premises. Opened in 2015, the Warren and Mahoney designed building replaced the 1920s headquarters damaged in the earthquakes. It is the last remaining metropolitan RSA in New Zealand. The $5.8 million premises are listed for sale by investment brokers…
An incredibly detailed model of the historic Canterbury Jockey Club Building is the latest new exhibit at Quake City, Canterbury Museum’s special exhibition about the Canterbury earthquakes. The model, crafted over 5 weeks by local artist Mike Beer, known as Ghostcat, recreates in miniature one of the many heritage buildings Christchurch lost after the earthquakes…
Tararua District Council has engaged a company called Solutions Team to support the delivery of building services in the Tararua District. Solutions Team is a Christchurch based AOB (Accredited Organisation (Building)) – that operates to the same Building Consent Authority (BCA) standards that the council’s Building Department is accredited to. They are currently setting up…
The Public Service is becoming more ethnically diverse, including in leadership roles, and we now know most public servants feel they work in an inclusive environment. The latest workforce data shows diversity at the senior management level continues to improve. MÄori now hold 13.5 percent of leadership roles, up 1.1 percentage points on last year,…
UC building to be renamed after victims’ advocate #IWD #BreakTheBias A University of Canterbury graduate and staff member who was a life-long advocate for victims and people with disabilities will be honoured when a building on the Ilam Campus is renamed after her. Acting Executive Dean of Science Professor Janet Carter says the new name…