Strengthening Workspaces: Adapting Wellington’s Earthquake Prone Heritage Buildings for Co-Workspaces

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Strengthening Workspaces: Adapting Wellington’s Earthquake Prone Heritage Buildings for Co-Workspaces

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Victoria University of Wellington

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<b>In the late 1960s the Wellington City Council surveyed all the commercial buildings in the city and marked nearly 200 as earthquake prone. The owners were given 15 years to either strengthen or demolish their buildings. The end result was mass demolition throughout the seventies and eighties.¹ Prompted by the Christchurch earthquakes, once again the council has published a list of over 630 earthquake prone buildings that need to be strengthened or demolished by 2030.²Of these earthquake pr...

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Research paper

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Scholarly text / Thesis

Thesis level

Masters

Date created

2018

Creator

Vance, Lara

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https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/Strengthening_Workspaces_Adapting_Wellington_s_Earthquake_Pr...

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Architectural design / Structural Design / Heritage / Co-Workspace / Adaptive Reuse / School: School of Architecture / Architectural Design / Degree Discipline: Architecture / Degree Level: Masters / Degree Name: Master of Architecture (Professional)

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