DISCOVER YOUR CITY THROUGH ARCHITECTURE OPEN CHRISTCHURCH 15-16 MAY 2021 40+ BUILDINGS, 1 WEEKEND CHAMPION SPONSOR PRINCIPAL SPONSORS FUNDERS openchch.nz 0 WITH 46 OPEN BUILDINGS, TWO GUIDED 2 CENTRAL CITY WALKS AND DOZENS OF SPECIAL ACTIVITIES (FROM CHILDREN’S WORKSHOPS TO PERFORMANCES AS WELL AS EXPERT TALKS AND TOURS), OPEN CHRISTCHURCH 2021 IS A CELEBRATION OF OUR ARCHITECTURE. This one-weekend-only festival is – by creating your own itinerary Accessible for everyone in or visiting Ōtautahi you’ll discover your city in a Christchurch over 15 & 16 May. new way. Not Accessible Building owners/kaitiaki will Te Pūtahi thanks all our generous literally open their doors so you Toilets building partners and contributors can experience great design from for welcoming everyone to explore the inside, for free. There are a Parking Provided these special works of architecture. handful of exceptions to this as a We also acknowledge our family of small fee of $4+bf is charged for Ticketed sponsors, funders and supporters access to buildings that require Dr Jessica Halliday for making Open Christchurch 2021 advanced booking. Walk up: turn up on the day Te Pūtahi Director possible. Open Christchurch is a We encourage you to peruse the feast of architecture – we hope you programme carefully and to delve relish the chance to explore and COVID-19: For the latest into openchch.nz to select what enjoy this selection of the city’s information about Covid levels you want to see over the weekend best buildings. please see openchch.nz MESSAGE FROM THE MAYOR more knowledgeable about local architecture and design, engage Open Christchurch is a fantastic in dialogue and make informed festival allowing residents and judgements about our future city’s visitors to explore over 40 environment. It invites people architecturally significant buildings to have shared encounters of for free. Great design in buildings our city's special buildings and and public spaces is vital in so together discover our city creating and sustaining a vibrant, through direct experience of its welcoming and equitable city, architecture. Lianne Dalziel and this is a great opportunity to Mayor of Christchurch understand the value of a well- Please join us at this annual designed built environment. weekend celebration of our architecturally designed places Open Christchurch will enable right here in Ōtautahi Christchurch. the wider community to become 21 OPEN CHRISTCHURCH OPEN CHRISTCHURCH IS ONLY MADE POSSIBLE 2021 SPONSORS AND THROUGH THE SUPPORT AND ENTHUSIASM OF SUPPORTERS ITS FAMILY OF SPONSORS AND SUPPORTERS. CHAMPION PRINCIPAL SPONSORS SUPPORTING EVENT FUNDERS SPONSORS PARTNER PUBLIC 1. 2. 3. 4. OLD GOVERNMENT BUILDING BOTANIC GARDENS – CUNINGHAM BOTANIC GARDENS – VISITOR CENTRE TE HONONGA CHRISTCHURCH HOUSE CONSERVATORY CIVIC BUILDING ARCHITECT: Joseph Clarkson ARCHITECT: Pattersons Associates, 2010-14 Maddison, 1913 ARCHITECT: Collins and Harman, 1923 ADDRESS: Rolleston Ave ARCHITECT: Ministry of Works, 1965-81; ADDRESS: 28 Cathedral Sq ADDRESS: Rolleston Ave SAT & SUN: 9am–5pm, walk up Athfield Architects, 2007-10 SAT & SUN: 12–5pm, walk up SAT & SUN: 10am-4pm, walk up GARDEN TOURS, see openchch.nz ADDRESS: 58 Worcester Blvd SELF-GUIDED SAT: 10am-4pm TOURS: Sun, 1pm & 2pm This white, airy contemporary structure strikes a WALK UP + TOURS, see openchch.nz Part of the nineteenth century battle of the styles Immerse yourself in the verdant tropics when contrast to the surrounding greenery. One of the that pitted Gothic Revivalism against Classicism, you visit this neoclassical beauty of steel, first post-quake builds and a happy marriage of Putting the public back into civic architecture, Athfield OGB, as a Renaissance Revival structure, is one concrete and glass. The fruits of a family rift, the form and function, the design is adapted from a Architects have transformed a Brutalist fortress (the of the few remaining examples of the latter in conservatory was paid for by gardens’ enthusiast Dutch commercial greenhouse system. Outside, former NZ Post building) and worked with Ngāi Tahu Christchurch. Sitting on a large rusticated stone Cleverly Cuningham. Modelled on the Springburn the serrated, jutting roofline provides angles to incorporate cultural narratives in an innovative base and characterised by the giant orders Winter Gardens in Glasgow, the design includes and rhythm, while inside the building flows from adaptation. The welcoming, abundant space of the (columns) that span two floors, a heavy cornice a dome-shaped glass roof capped with a glazed restricted (the plant propagation areas) through two-storeyed ground floor doubles as a thoroughfare and parapet, it speaks to the palazzo tradition lantern, and a covered portico with Tuscan to public spaces of the shop and cafe. Interior between two major streets and as the connective heart and Renaissance architects. The grandness, columns. Its leafy charges are kept in the tropical elements continue the botanical theme: precast of the building’s functions. Outside, the structure’s weight and prominence of the building reflect climate they require, allowing for the historically concrete sculptured panels result in dappled bulk is celebrated as reassuring; inside, sustainable the power of central government, the offices of popular activity of keeping and displaying plants light, echoing the shady surrounds. innovations abound: gas generated at landfill provides which it was designed to house. from far-flung places. heating; rainwater is harvested to flush toilets. COMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL 5. Photo by Adam Mørk 6. 7. 8. TŪRANGA CENTRAL LIBRARY CHRISTCHURCH TOWN HALL CSO CENTRE CANTERBURY BUILDING SOCIETY/ MUSE ART HOTEL ARCHITECT: Architectus & Schmidt ARCHITECT: Warren and Mahoney, ARCHITECT: Warren and Mahoney, 2019 Hammer Lassen Architects with Ngāi 1972 & 2019 ADDRESS: 86 Kilmore St ARCHITECT: B J Ager & Peter Beaven, Tūāhuriri & Matapopore, 2018 ADDRESS: 86 Kilmore St SAT: 12.45-1.30pm 1961; Three Sixty Architecture, 2020 ADDRESS: 60 Cathedral Square SAT & SUN: 10am-4pm, walk up TALK & WALK-THROUGH ADDRESS: 159 Manchester St SAT & SUN: 10am-5pm, walk up MULTIPLE ACTIVITIES, see openchch.nz SUN: 12–4pm The city’s orchestra finally has its own dedicated MULTIPLE ACTIVITIES, see openchch.nz WALK UP WITH CONTROLLED ACCESS A Milestone in New Zealand civic architecture, home after more than 60 years of existence. The award-winning Tūranga is a landmark and one of the country’s most acclaimed Spanning three storeys and connecting to Started by Ager and finished by one of New building in Christchurch’s rebuild. Reaching buildings, the Christchurch Town Hall was much all levels of the Town Hall, the CSO Centre’s Zealand’s most acclaimed architects, Peter out beyond its footprint to the surrounding longed-for. Christchurch residents waited almost forms and materials echo those of the original Beaven, the Canterbury Building Society was landscape – building on Ngāi Tūāhuriri’s narrative 100 years for a town hall of their own and helped building. Of particular note: the Ron Ball Studio, the first large office building to be constructed in through important navigational reference points finance what was to become the centre of public where architecture meets acoustic engineering. the central city after WWII. The building sports – it expresses the principle of whakamanuhiri life. The expression of its structure and materials Warm Southland Beech and purpose-designed, several signature Beaven flourishes. The top (welcoming guests). The inclusive, light-filled are key characteristics of this modernist acoustic wall detailing combine to sustain pure, two floors are full of personality: one, capped ground floor extends the square’s civic space, masterpiece, while the internationally acclaimed clear sound in this refined space. by a cornice slab; the ultimate, with a dramatic while the generous central stairway invites the auditorium with its groundbreaking acoustic floating pavilion. The result: a 360 view from public inwards and upwards towards knowledge. design is its feature. See the CSO rehearse in above and a skyline of floating planes when Roomy, connective and alive, the building flows this space (Sat, 10am-12.30pm). viewed from the street. from the dynamic lower floors to the slower, more reflective and compact upper floors. 1 COMMERCIAL 9. 10. Image by Peter Cui 11. 12. 65 CAMBRIDGE TERRACE STRANGES & GLENDENNING HILL LYTTELTON STUDIO MONASTERY LANE NEAVE ARCHITECT: Warren & Mahoney, 1962 & 1979 ARCHITECT: Sheppard & Rout, 2014 ARCHITECT: Bull O'Sullivan Architecture, 2015 ARCHITECT: Jasmax, 2015 ADDRESS: 65 Cambridge Tce ADDRESS: Corner Lichfield & High Sts ADDRESS: 23b Walkers Road, Lyttelton ADDRESS: 141 Cambridge Terrace SAT: 10am–4pm SAT: 9am-1pm, walk up SUN: 9am–1pm, walk up SAT: 10am-12pm, controlled access WALK UP + TOURS TOURS: every 30mins from 9am SELF-GUIDED TOURS, see openchch.nz Angular, articulated and artful, 65 Cambridge Shiny, bold and sleek, the Stranges & Taking an elegant stance on an iconic landscape, A subtle, sophisticated design that is of this Tce was designed in 1962 as both an office Glendenning Hill building stands out in a crowd. this humble retreat is rough and ready on the place. The exterior glass curtain wall is angled for Warren & Mahoney and a residence for Sir Two new buildings connect to an existing exterior, but holds polished treasures if you to meet the river bend, while inside structural Miles Warren. The building shows us what it is heritage building via a laneway, which results