Architecture as a work-in-progressResearch question : How can New Zealand learn from the European way of adapting heritage buildings to promote conservation as an ‘unfinished architectural fragment’, displaying an inscription of time of a building’s past and associated future?

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Architecture as a work-in-progressResearch question : How can New Zealand learn from the European way of adapting heritage buildings to promote conservation as an ‘unfinished architectural fragment’, displaying an inscription of time of a building’s past and associated future?

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People carry an assumption that ‘heritage’ architecture must be historic (age based) to be considered valuable and significant to New Zealand’s cultural identity. This historic value must be maintained and preserved, but not altered, for it to remain as ‘heritage’ and retain its value. How can heritage buildings engage and remain alive and relevant to society if they are frozen in the past? This research project uses architecture to explore how heritage buildings can reflect the current cultu...

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Masters

Date created

2013

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Walls, Sekai

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https://hdl.handle.net/10652/2549

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adaptive reuse of buildings / building reuse / Grey Lynn (Auckland, N.Z.) / Ponsonby (Auckland, N.Z.) / Chamberlain Street (Auckland, N.Z.) / Richmond Road (Auckland, N.Z.) / Carlile House (Auckland, N.Z.) / former Costley Training Institute / Costley Training Institution / converted architecture / Architectural Heritage and Conservation

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