Tag: Canterbury Heritage Awards

The Box112 Canterbury Heritage Awards 2018: Seismic Award

Canterbury Heritage Awards 2018: Seismic Award- Proudly sponsored by  CERES NZ

Equal Winners:

Statue of Captain Robert Falcon Scott
Entrant: Christchurch City Council
The statue of Captain Robert Falcon Scott commemorates the Polar Party who perished on their return journey from the South Pole in 1912. The statue is of international importance with considerable historic, artistic, cultural and social significance. Using internationally leading and innovative engineering techniques the statue has been meticulously conserved, repaired and seismically strengthened. Without such care and attention the statue, that now sits proudly on its original site, would likely have been lost.

Holy Innocents, Mt Peel
Entrant: Church Property Trustees
This highly significant church built in 1869 and associated with the early settler Acland family was badly damaged in the Canterbury earthquakes. It was considered a total loss.

The Heritage NZ and Timaru District Council listed church is in an isolated location creating major problems for its strengthening and partial reconstruction. These included a lack of services, difficulty for transport of building supplies, and the need to work over winter. The commitment of the whole team is evident in the innovation and excellence of the design and its implementation so that the heritage values of the church have been maintained. It is now more able to survive similar earthquakes so that future generations can experience and enjoy its magnificent qualities.

Highly Commended: (more…)

Historic Places Mid Canterbury- Wins “Outstanding Contribution to Heritage” @ Canterbury Heritge Awards 2018

Historic Places Mid Canterbury were announced winners of the Outstanding Contribution to Heritage category at the Canterbury Heritage Awards 2018.

The citation from the Awards website is the following:

"Outstanding Contribution to Heritage

Historic Places Mid-Canterbury generates community awareness, appreciation and retention of historic buildings and sites that have social and heritage value for the Mid Canterbury community.  They have successfully manned regular displays, heritage bus trips, Living Heritage articles in local newspapers, a yearly summer Garden Party in historic surrounds and regular newsletters.  They have now recently introduced the Blue Plaque Project.  This is gaining approval and interest from other heritage groups and building owners throughout Canterbury."

Heritage Christchurch wins Canterbury Heritage Award (2018) in Heritage Tourism category

Heritage Christchurch Exterior

Heritage Christchurch has just been announced the winner of the Heritage Tourism category in the Canterbury Heritage Awards 2018.

The awards honour Canterbury individuals, organisations and companies involved in heritage restoration, retention, promotion or tourism.

The award was presented on 15 June at the Canterbury Heritage Awards gala event in the Isaac Theatre Royal.

“We are honoured to receive this award. It is a huge endorsement for Heritage Hotels and what we stand for. We consider ourselves privileged custodians of this very special building,” says Gary Jarvis, chief operating officer of Heritage Hotel Management Ltd.

“We are delighted daily by the engagement of visitors with the building’s unique history and grandeur. The ‘heritage’ factor is a strong motivation for guests choosing to stay with us,” says Astrid Hay, resident manager of Heritage Christchurch.

Heritage Christchurch is set in the century-old Old Government Building on Cathedral Square. The hotel offers elegant suites in one, two and three bedroom configurations as well as a health club, lap pool and sauna on site.

The building was designed by renowned architect, Joseph Clarkson Maddison, in an Italian Renaissance Palazzo style. It opened in August 1913 and is considered of ‘monumental’ importance to the city by architecture experts.

Heritage Christchurch won the World Luxury Hotel Award in the Luxury Heritage Hotel category Australasia/Oceania region and the Luxury Historical Hotel category for New Zealand in December 2017. The hotel was also a winner in the historical category in 2016.

Media contact:

Susan Gibson
Group Communications Manager
Heritage Hotel Management

https://www.heritagehotels.co.nz

Box 112 Historic Places Mid Canterbury Named As Finalists For The Canterbury Heritage Awards 2018

Box 112 Canterbury Heritage Awards 2018

Outstanding Contribution to Heritage:

Outstanding Contribution to Heritage:

  • Lyttleton Redux (Julia Holden, Artist)
  • Heritage Team (CCC Heritage Team)
  • Historic Places Mid Canterbury, Ashburton

http://www.heritageawards.co.nz/2018-awards/2018-finalists/

Ticket Purchase Details:

http://www.heritageawards.co.nz/2018-awards/ticket-purchases/

“Christchurch – Five Years On” Canterbury Heritage Awards 2016 Commissioned Doc Online

The Canterbury Heritage Awards commissioned doc is available to view online. The following explanation text was sourced from the Canterbury Heritage Awards Website.

Christchurch – Five Years On

The following film was commissioned in 2012 to accompany the awards. Time may erase images of the full extent of the destruction of our city in our minds – and it is easy to forget landmarks and think ‘I can’t remember what was there before!’ We need visual reminders of our past culture. This film features some twenty Heritage buildings that have gone forever. We will be reminded of the damage the earthquake caused and it will focus on the empty space that now exists. It is that empty space that the Heritage Awards team will be monitoring and it is that empty space that features in the 2016 update. Will these empty sites see heritage of the future? Will they articulate motifs of predecessors? Will they be a worthy successor, or will they be another mindless and bland building that could exist anywhere in the world. Or are the sites still unbuilt upon.
https://vimeo.com/159266281

Shop 7 Valuing Our Heritage : Joint Winner Heritage Tourism Award (Canterbury Heritage Awards) …. And Awarded A Highly Commended In The Outstanding Contribution to Heritage Award

Shop 7 (Image sourced Canterbury Heritage Awards)

Shop 7 (Image sourced Canterbury Heritage Awards)

"Shop 7" a joint project of Historic Places Canterbury,  The Christchurch Heritage Trust and Restore was declared joint winner of the Canterbury Heritage Awards Heritage Tourism Award 2016.

the text from the awards

"Winner

Valuing our Heritage

Entrant: Shop 7

Thousands of visitors from around the world and New Zealand, as well as locals, have visited Shop 7 over the nearly two years it was open in central Christchurch. A sample page from the visitors’ book records messages from visitors from England, Australia, Germany and Holland. People were heartened by the restoration stories, but the great majority were deeply saddened by the loss of heritage in the city. The legacy of Shop 7 is a better informed public locally, nationally and internationally about the crisis faced by heritage destruction post the earthquakes."
http://www.heritageawards.co.nz/award-category/heritage-tourism/?awards-year=2016

http://www.heritageawards.co.nz/award-category/outstanding-contribution/?awards-year=2016

“Tracking the fate of Christchurch heritage” The Press (Online Article)

Tracking the fate of Christchurch heritage The Press

"A new video updating the fate of 20 heritage buildings in Christchurch post-quake has been screened for the first time.

The film by Gerard Smyth was commissioned by the Canterbury Heritage Awards in 2012 and was updated in 2014 and again in 2016."

http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/christchurch-life/80947005/tracking-the-fate-of-christchurch-heritage