The detailing, materiality & construction of a classical building in a contemporary New Zealand context

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The detailing, materiality & construction of a classical building in a contemporary New Zealand context

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The questions I seek to answer are how a monumental classical building would be constructed (focusing on the construction of complex classical forms) and detailed in New Zealand? How has the construction of classical buildings and their complex forms been accomplished overseas? Are we able to use the same, or similar methods? What new technologies could be utilized without undermining any classical construction principles? Principles such as perdurable construction, and the use of aesthetical...

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Thesis level

Masters

Date created

2013

Creator

Breig, Alexander / van Raat, Tony / Chaplin, David

URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10652/2503

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classical architecture / classical building / classicism / train stations / Auckland CBD (N.Z.) / Wellesley Street and Mayoral Drive (Auckland, N.Z.) / New Zealand / Architectural Design

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