This exhibition is now closed
This exhibition will feature architectural drawings of buildings planned for the city but never built. They include plans from as early as 1857, with Benjamin Mountfort's first proposal for Bishopscourt, through to the 1980s.
Highlights will be Cecil Wood's Entrance Tower to Christ's College. R.S.D. Harman's competition design for the Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Mountford's design for Holy Trinity Church Avonside, Peter Beaven's Town Hall, 1966, Warren and Mahoney's design for the City Administration Building where the Park Royal now stands, and Gilbert Scott's first design for the Christchurch Cathedral.
('Unbuilt Christchurch', Bulletin, No.74, June/July 1991, p.3)
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Date:
5 July – 12 July 1991 -
Location:
Robert McDougall Art Gallery - main gallery -
Exhibition number:
483
Related
Bulletin 74
June/July 1991
Contents include
Encounter with Eden - Rex Nan Kivell Collection exhibition
Imposing Narratives exhibition
Ralph Hotere exhibition
Gavin Bishop exhibition
Postal Impressions exhibition
Unbuilt Christchurch exhibition
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