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Massey House, Wellington

Massey House, Wellington
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Massey House, Wellington
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Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
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Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
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Wellington's Massey House is pictured nearing completion in 1957. Designed by the Austrian émigré Ernst Plischke and local architect Cedric Firth, it was New Zealand's first glass curtain-wall office building. The building highlights the simple forms of the modernist style. The use of pilotis (thin pillars) and the sculptural rooftop machinery room references the work of the great modernist architect Le Corbusier. The view is unusual in showing the lightwell and windowed northern side of the ...

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Date created
28 March 2014
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Alexander Turnbull Library
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https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/44771/massey-house-wellington

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