"Heartland heritage, buildings in the regions"
"Bill McKay reports on our historic buildings and the character of our small regional towns facing multiple threats.
Bill McKay is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Auckland."
Last November’s earthquake caused major damage in Wellington, but fortunately not to most of its heritage buildings.
The nature of the quake and the type of shaking it induced mostly affected some multi-storey modern structures. Two of these, an office block and a parking building, have had to be demolished. It has recently been announced that the 10-year old Ministry of Defence building will also be coming down. Other badly damaged modern buildings may yet have to be demolished when investigations have been completed. Internal damage in other buildings has been severe.
Most heritage buildings, however, were not badly affected. (more…)
