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October 2017 ISSN 0113-2237 www.icomos.org.nz

Screenshot One News One Screenshot “I’m so pleased its safe!” The Wizard reacts to the news of Christ Church cathedral’s salvation, with the Peoples’ Steeple model in the background.

alongside the cathedral where it accommodate ANZAC Day ‘I’m so pleased has stood for the past 80 years. services and staff of Christchurch City, which owns the memorial, its safe!’ The Christchurch RSA has been are said to be ‘urgently’ lobbying for a shift over the past investigating temporary and he Wizard of Christchurch, year and RSA Vice president Jim permanent relocation options. indeed the Wizard of New Lilley made a formal request to To page 12

Zealand, Ian Brackenbury the CPT on 3 October telling The T Channell, QSM, expresses his Press "Let's just move the delight at the prospect of having memorial to Cranmer Square in a backdrop against which to the meantime and then have All the news that fits perform his magic as ‘an the debate about its final … and then some authentic living work of art,’ no position." doubt hoping the Cathedral will agree to his parking his double- Scribblings from the Chair 2 ended VW beetle in the grounds Cranmer Square has changed Young Professionals 4 and his stepladder in the porch little since it was laid out. Named US Exchange opportunity 5 after the Protestant martyr as was his wont in pre-quake 1st Built Heritage MA 6 Thomas Cranmer, and sadly no times. AGM & Board election 7 longer dominated by the former Arts Council appointment 12 Just when it looked like the Christchurch Girls’ High School and the former Normal School at New Members 13 cathedral and its setting were Training 14 safe, the Church Property its south and north ends, it has Taputapuātea & World Trustees recently supported the been the venue for ANZAC Day Heritage 15 removal of William Trethewey’s services since 2012. The RSA is concerned that Cathedral Citizens War Memorial from • Square is too small to

properties listed on the tentative last Board meeting. She has Scribblings from list, but little or no progress already presented to a virtual towards an outcome. The conference in late August. the Chair tentative list needs to be Ian Bowman reviewed every ten years, but it Professor Toshiyuki Kono, a s I scribble doesn't look certain that that will member of the Executive these few be forthcoming just yet. Committee, explained the A notes for Young Professional initiative in an So, to canvas opinions on where this edition of our email as follows: NZ World Heritage was going, or wonderful not, we also visited the Ministry ICOMOS NZ For several years ICOMOS for Culture and Heritage who are Young Professional News, we are in giving advice to DoC on cultural membership has been the middle of sites. We met with Sebastian expanding, and the ICOMOS election fever. Just another Clarke and Helen McCracken Board is actively promoting its couple of weeks to go before who also noted the lack of expansion by encouraging we know who will govern us for progress on World Heritage but National Committees and the next three years. Of course, also couldn’t really advise when Scientific Committees to or how there might be progress. ICOMOS NZ News is completely engage proactively with emerging professionals in apolitical. However, it has I can now understand why become clear in our calls to the conservation fields. A range previous chairs got more than a of initiatives are underway in Minister of Cultural and Heritage little frustrated with World different committees, and it’s (and DoC) that we don’t seem Heritage issues. time to draw together a to be at the forefront of her communications opportunity consciousness. Since Minister Scratching my head for how we for YPs to proactively develop Barry took office we have tried might get some progress, it their own culturally and numerous times to get a meeting occurred to me that, as ICOMOS linguistically diverse activities is a partner with UNESCO in the to discuss ICOMOS things, and communications, whole World Heritage process, I including World Heritage and themselves, as a peer led might get some advice from our initiative. avenues of funding for the Fiji head office in Paris. I emailed Australia ICOMOS conference in Gaia Jungeblodt, the Director October next year. After we left who replied, copying in the Last month seemed to be a numerous emails and phone President, Gustavo Araoz, and month of meetings. There were Director-General Marie-Laure three positive meetings this messages we finally got a reply month. from her office….”no”. Didn’t Lavenir, saying they will discuss the issue and get back with want to meet. No reason. No ideas. I will also try and meet At the beginning of August, I timeframe. We got the with them in Delhi. I will most attended the Australia ICOMOS message. certainly be reporting on the Executive Board meeting in problems we have been having Melbourne. I was invited by their So, getting the bit between our in the Asia Pacific regional President Ian Travers and it was teeth your valiant Chair and meeting, which I attend as NZ great to put faces to names not Secretary then met with DoC, Chair. NZ’s State Party for World to mention meeting up again Heritage, to discuss the lack of with Peter Philips, our regional progress on the World Heritage Speaking of the General Vice President. I only attended Tentative list. The list was Assembly in Delhi, I am pleased on the Saturday (they are two – prepared in a flurry of activity 10 to report that there will be quite day affairs) and it was quite eye years ago but nine years ago bevy of us going. Nicola Short, opening to see the extent of work was stopped by the new Priyanka Misra, Stacy Vallis, activities they are involved with. government. As I say ICOMOS Claire Craig, and I will all be They are keen to collaborate News is apolitical. attending. It is great that so with us in as many areas as many are keen to go and possible. One area in particular At DoC, we met with Dr Kay represent New Zealand ICOMOS was with indigenous cultural Booth, Danica Stent and our and experience a General heritage and our Maori own Paul Mahoney at DoC Assembly. Apart from presenting Committee of one, Dean headquarters and went through a paper, Stacy has an official Whiting, is now in touch with his the current state of play. There role as New Zealand’s Young equivalent. The meeting appear to be on-going Professional representative, discussed their bid to hold the discussions with stakeholders of having been appointed at our next General Assembly in

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The Board during a lighter moment in its August strategic planning meeting at Antrim House.

Sydney, which has local and And finally, another meeting of central government backing. sorts organised by Amanda They are keen to see as many Mulligan. Most of our Executive NZers as possible there in 2020. If Board meeting on 12 August was they provide catering as good taken up with a facilitated as our lunch, I will be a definite. workshop on our strategic plan. It was really successful and The second positive (tele- according to the facilitator Dallis conference) meeting was with Parker-Waters, we did 2 days’ HNZ CE Andrew Coleman, work in 4 hours. James Blackburne Chair of Historic Places Aotearoa and There is a little bit of tidying up Katharine Watson of NZ needed which will be done by Archaeology Association. The our Strategic Plan committee so idea behind the meetings is (as that we can present it to the per the minutes), to AGM. Thanks very much to all of took part. discuss heritage related aspects such as vision, Ian Bowman strategies, priorities and work Chairperson programmes in an attempt to seek shared outcomes and outputs where applicable.

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opportunities for future YP engagement. A general lack of visibility, combined with currently small YP membership base emerged as a common theme and therefore displayed the potential to engage both students and YPs employed within

conservation industry. In conjunction, ideas for achieving greater participation by YPs included local and/or global mentorship programs, networking events, lectures or forums to ICOMOS Young present ongoing projects and/or research work- engaging with Professionals more experienced members of the organisation. Overall, the key Working Group objectives are to generate local and global YP networks, to draw Stacy Vallis upon and learn from the knowledge of more experienced For a number of years, the members of ICOMOS and to international ICOMOS community ensure that ICOMOS continues to has experienced a lack of grow as an active and diverse engagement and involvement by organisation in the future. The YP younger members, who are Working Group will accordingly involved or working within the generate a series of resolutions wider field of heritage which can be institutionalized conservation. In order to address during the Advisory Committee this gap, the headquarters in Paris meeting at the General Assembly. has called for the organisation of

local groups consisting of Young The next step for the local and Professional (YP) members, ahead national groups is to reach out to of the General Assembly 2017 in our fellow YPs and begin these New Delhi, India. discussions ahead of the next

teleconference, scheduled for Each national committee has mid-October. Therefore, I will end nominated a representative for an this segment with a further call to international ICOMOS Young those who may be interested in Professionals (YP) Working Group, joining the NZ contingent, or each responsible for alternatively, who may know communicating and coordinating others who would be keen to the proposed initiatives with the participate. Further to local young professional conversations with the current NZ contingents across the respective YP members, we are keen to countries. As the New Zealand organise a meeting to generate representative, I had the ideas. Although we are currently a opportunity to attend the first small group, we are by no means meeting of the YP Working Group, the smallest and have the flexibility which took place via to tailor our initiatives whilst teleconference on Sunday 27 engaging with our international August. The meeting was colleagues! facilitated by Sheridan Burke

(ICOMOS Australia), Toshi Kono Please feel free to circulate this (ICOMOS Paris) and Gideon Koren message and get in touch with me (ICOMOS Israel). at: [email protected]

or via Facebook at: With attendees coming from as far https://www.facebook.com/ICOM

Young Professionals Young afield as Albania, Austria and OSNZ/ Algeria, the discussion highlighted

a number of challenges and

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Young Professional on US Exchange oung Professional Y Rebecca Ramsay (Auckland) has recently completed the 2017 US ICOMOS International Exchange Programme, her posting being with the Office of Historic Preservation in Annapolis, Maryland.

US/ICOMOS organizes and manages the 12-week program which runs from June to August, from its Directorate offices in Washington, DC.

Participants in the programme are Above: View of the Annapolis City Dock from the dome of the Maryland State House. assigned practical working Below: Lisa Craig, Rebecca’s host and Chief of Historic Preservation at the City of Annapolis, with Rebecca outside the Maryland State House. internships, under professional supervision, with a public or private working on research for all of the interns, prior to the non-profit preservation appropriate hazard mitigation closing reception. organization. Internships for non- solutions for the city’s built U.S. citizens are placed throughout heritage. The members of the Summer the United States. 2017 Class, emerging heritage Following that she completed an professionals from Ethiopia, India, Positions are for interns with a online GIS story map for the City of Lithuania, New Zealand, Pakistan bachelor's degree (at a minimum) Annapolis, outlining their Cultural and the United States presented in a preservation or conservation- Resource Hazard Mitigation Plan, individually and in panels on their related field: architecture, which should be released in the work in Climate Change and landscape architecture, cultural next few weeks as their plan is Heritage, Heritage as a Pillar of resource management, materials finalised. Sustainable Development and conservation, interpretation, World Heritage Management. history of architecture, The programme culminated in the Their projects reflect work archaeology, industrial International Exchange undertaken in France, India, Israel, archaeology, public history or Programme symposium in Jordan, Lithuania, Trinidad and cultural tourism. Rebecca spent Washington DC in the middle of Tobago and across the United the bulk of her time at Annapolis August where she participated in an evening of presentations from States.

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degree programme reflects the balance between heritage First heritage interdisciplinary nature of the conservation and heritage industry and provides a redevelopment,” she says. conservation pathway for postgraduates from degree conferred a variety of disciplines to study “In Hong Kong, my family live in heritage conservation. Sum Yee a heritage building, constructed

previously completed a Bachelor in the 1960s. Designed with the eing raised in Hong Kong, of Arts majoring in archaeology wind and sun in mind, it is a the world’s fourth most and geography at the University place we love. Unlike many densely populated area B of Sydney. modern housing developments influenced the future career in the area, the families all know path of University of Auckland each other, because we student Sum Yee Ling. can move freely

between the floors, so The 22-year-old postgraduate, we interact and have who grew up in the Chinese formed a community,” territory, has seen first-hand she says. how rapid population growth coupled with a shortage of As part of Sum Yee’s urban land results in the Masters of Heritage destruction of heritage Conservation course buildings. Understanding that work she undertook an building preservation often sits internship with the uncomfortably with the need Auckland Council that for urban expansion and required her to assess development, Sum Yee and report on the wanted to work with local heritage values of the communities to identify, Mount Albert War protect and preserve buildings Memorial Hall. The that were treasured. project was a highlight

of her study and her She recently moved a step completed assessment closer to her career goal when will assist the Heritage she was capped at the Unit at the Council to University of Auckland Spring protect “this fine Graduation with a Masters of example of local Heritage Conservation with a modernist architecture.” specialisation in Built Heritage, the first qualification of its type Sum Yee wants to play in New Zealand. an on-going role in

heritage conservation both here The multi-disciplinary degree, She first arrived in New Zealand and back in Hong Kong. “I now which was undertaken at the as a teenager to study at have the skills to assess a School of Architecture and Rangitoto College for three building’s significance, and then Planning, bridges archaeology, years, next headed to the if necessary, take practical steps architecture, history, museums University of Sydney for another to help preserve it,” she says. studies, and planning. The course three, before returning to of study was the exact undertake postgraduate study The University of Auckland’s combination Sum Yee was at the University of Auckland. Faculty of Creative Arts and looking for, encompassing Sum Yee could see the city’s Industries comprises the Elam compulsory architecture papers growth meant there were School of Fine Arts, the School of with individual electives. heritage issues happening here Architecture and Planning, the

too. “New Zealand was an ideal Centre for Art Studies, the School Designed for both professionals environment for me to of Music and the Dance Studies and aspiring professionals, the investigate ways of striking a Programme.

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New faces on ICOMOS Board

Young Professionals, Rebecca Ramsay, Priyanka Misra and Pam Dziwulska who have joined the ICOMOS New Zealand Board.

his year’s Executive Board Ian Bowman was elected Board part from being world- election was the first in 30 Chairperson unopposed. Ian famous in New Zealand for T years to require a ballot for divides his time between Nelson A the Railway House Factory, Board membership. and Wellington. and its nearby Railway House Settlement, Hamilton has Elected to the Executive Board some notoriety as the onetime workplace of screenwriter Richard were Robin Byron, Pam t the subsequent Board O'Brien who played Riff Raff in the Dziwulska, Phillip Hartley, Alan meeting Phillip Hartley Rocky Horror Picture Show. Jolliffe, Martin Jones, Laura A was elected Vice- Chairperson, Alan Jolliffe ICOMITES encountered his statue, Kellaway, Heike Lutz, Priyanka which occupies part of the site of Treasurer with Gareth Wright as Misra, Amanda Mulligan, Mary the former Embassy Theatre, on Assistant Treasurer. O'Keeffe, Amanda Ohs, their inner city walking tour led by

Rebecca Ramsay, David Laura Kellaway and Lyn Williams. Reynolds, Sherry Reynolds, The Board elected Amanda Chessa Stevens, Stacy Vallis, Mulligan and Chessa Stevens as Laura and Ann McEwen later took Dean Whiting and Gareth joint Secretaries. the team to Frankton to see the Wright. Cat 1 Frankton Junction Railway Chairs of Committees and House Factory and the remarkably Robin, Pam, Phillip, Martin, Heike, Working Groups will be decided intact Frankton Junction Railway Priyanka, Rebecca, David, Sherry at the first Board meeting to be Settlement Historic Area. The tour and Stacy are based in held in Auckland on 25 continued to Temple View to see Auckland; Laura Kellaway, November. recent redevelopment following Hamilton; Amanda Mulligan, closure of The Church of Jesus Mary, Chessa and Dean, Christ of Latter-day Saints’ Church Wellington; Alan Jolliffe, Amanda College, then on to the early rural Waipa property, Homewood at Te Ohs and Gareth Wright, are Rore and the Alexandra Redoubt located in Christchurch. in Pirongia.

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It's just a jump to the left …

Above: Ian Bowman, Chessa Stevens

and Pam Dziwulska survey the

streetscape.

Left: Chessa Stevens shines a light on a

future vision of Marton.

Below right: The assembled multitude

brave the drizzle as Laura Kellaway and

Lyn Williams tell of Hamilton Lost.

Below Left: One of Hamilton’s famous

sons, Horace Moore-Jones, painter of

Simpson and his Donkey, sketches in the

rain against a backdrop of the 1928

iteration of the Barton & Ross building.

And a step to the right …

Left: Outbuildings at Homewood in Te Rore, en route to Pirongia.

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Right: Gathering for a visit to Homewood, the core of which is believed to include a prefabricated cottage dating to the 1840s. The home of heritage stalwart Heather Garrett for the past 51years, the garden preserves a magnolia, four camellias, a rhododendron, a date palm and an oak from the original plantings.

Middle left: John Coster and Martin Jones admire a rough-sawn rafter with a waney edge.

Middle right: ICOMOS Vice-President for Asia-Pacific, Peter Philips brings us back to earth with an update on recent changes in ICOMOS.

Bottom: Waiting for the cleansing rain at Alexandra Redoubt, Pirongia.

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Chairperson’s report 2017 Introduction • Chessa Stevens, Conservation his is my 3rd Chairman’s Architect report and reading over my • Fiona Wykes, Senior Heritage T previous reports we seem to Advisor, Christchurch City be making progress in some Council areas and not quite so much in • Vanessa Tanner, Senior others. It is very pleasing to see Heritage Advisor, Wellington that ICOMOS NZ membership City Council

continues to grow – clearly Jones Kevin • Andrew Marriott, Chartered

membership is seen as valuable Professional Engineer, Marriott Photo: and we welcome new members Secretary Mary O’Keeffe, a not so secret Consulting Engineers for the knowledge, experience ’gricer’ en route to Hamilton last week, • Carol-Lynne Kerrigan, CLK and collegiality they bring. using her preferred mode of transport, Heritage (New the luxurious Northern Explorer. Zealand)/Associate Director - As with my past Chairs report, I achievements this year, Heritage, City Plan Heritage, would like to thank all members particularly those of the working Sydney. of the executive board (and groups and committees. non-members on working groups The Heritage@Risk WG reported and ISCs) who have contributed Membership Working Group on the Christchurch Cathedral a great deal over the past year. As of 16 May, when we needed and Marton. In particular I would like to thank to advise the ICOMOS • Mary O’Keeffe, who Secretariat of our membership Technical and Materials Working continues to do an amazing for dues to be paid, we had 131 Group job as secretary; members. Welcome to all those This group continues to provide • Alan Joliffe, who continues new members who have joined reports on publications relating to keep an expert and wary since last year. to technical and material eye on finances as Treasurer; conservation. I have slotted and Education and Professional John Adams’s heritage gardens • David Reynolds who Development Committee and landscapes reports into this continues his role as editor of We have awarded our second group. I would like to thank his the Newsletter, repository of travel scholarship to Laura dedication and hard work in ICOMOS organisational Kellaway to attend the Longford producing really interesting memory and general rule Academy in Tasmania. Amanda summaries of documents, checker. Mulligan received the conferences and other events in scholarship last year for the same this field. Mary has decided to step down training workshop. after a considerable time as Young professionals secretary. She has been The committee is also planning The ICOMOS Secretariat secretary from time to time for to run several courses in spring requested National Committees over 10 years as well as chair. and summer 2017/2018 and to nominate a of a Young She has done an amazing job of Contechi has had one meeting Professional to join an all things secretarial as well as this year so far. international Young Professional co-arrange numerous AGMs, Working Group. We nominated meetings, and ensure I am up to Heritage@ Risk Working Group Stacy Vallis who participated in date with everything. I would The Heritage@Risk Working a virtual meeting with others and like to thank Mary for her huge Group have been asked to who made a presentation on contribution to making this nominate five New Zealand ICOMOS NZ. The group will meet organisation so successful. members to be part of the Joint in Delhi and fortunately Stacy will Australia New Zealand Working be attending the General Achievements this year Group on Disaster Preparedness. Assembly. Stacy was also I would like to briefly outline They have selected the following instrumental in promoting some of our positive five people: International Day for Monument

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and Sites and is a co-organiser of reviewed every 10 years and we combined event at least once a the Facebook page with Alan. reminded DoC of this fact. There year. was some shuffling of feet and Legislation and Policy Working looking at the ceiling but not Australia ICOMOS is proposing a Group much else. conference in Fiji in October Greg, Mary and I wrote a 2018 and has asked us to assist. I submission on the HNZ guidelines The Executive Committee has met with NZ UNESCO advisers to for preparing conservation plans. written to the Napier City see whether they could help out We are awaiting a finalised Council to encourage them to with funding for the event. We document. consider reviewing the current were advised to apply for WH report on Napier. Mary met funding for NZers to attend. Maori Heritage Working Group with the Napier Art Deco Trust The Indigenous Committee of who are certainly keen to pursue I also attended one of the two Australia ICOMOS requested co- full listing. days of the Australia ICOMOS operation with the Maori HWG We finally got a reply from the Executive Committee meeting in and Dean Whiting has made Minister of Conservation’s office Melbourne. It was very contact. In particular ICOMOS for a meeting, after trying for 3 informative on how their Australia was looking for a NZ years. And the answer was no. committees are run and the view on their updated Not interested. As I write this scope of their work. They are document on conservation of Winston is deciding who to go keen to collaborate on issues intangible cultural heritage. with and his decision will have wherever possible. They are profound impact on whether fortunate to have Peter Phillips, AGM Working Group any on the tentative list will see International Vice President, on You are seeing the fruits of Laura the light of day. tap to update the EC on Kellaway and Mary O’Keeffe. international ICOMOS issues. Thanks to both of you for all the We will persevere. work I know is involved. Thanks Other activities I would like to thank Sherry for Strategic Plan Meetings use of the HNZ offices in We had a very successful Mary and I have had meetings Auckland, Maria and Amanda facilitated workshop on the with Historic Places Aotearoa Ohs for organising CCC rooms Strategic Plan, organised by and Heritage New Zealand to and Mary for use of her house Amanda Mulligan. We agreed see where we can co-operate and barista. on the guiding principles and and pursue issues of common what is working and what is not. interest. A small group has now Conclusion Mary wrote up the notes and the formed that meets 6 weekly to 2 So, all in all, a pretty good year. SP group of Amanda, Mary, monthly comprising James Mostly some wins but we will be Chessa Stevens and me have Blackburne of HPA, Andrew following up with the new met to discuss the updated plan. Coleman of HNZ, Katharine minister, continue meeting with Amanda has now taken on the Watson of New Zealand like-minded organisations and job of relating the actions to Archaeological Association and fully implementing the strategic committees and working groups me. One area of interest that plan by which we will measure so that the plan can be finalised. we are following up is that of our progress in the future. education and promotion. World Heritage Working Group Other areas to pursue include Ian Bowman The issue of World Heritage is the need for a NPS, Chair where we have not had great management of Crown-owned 28 October 2017 results. Mary and I have met heritage, and an agreed with DoC (the State party) and national assessment process. Ministry for Culture and Heritage to understand why there has I have also met with Diana Coop been no progress with the of New Zealand Conservators of current tentative list, agreed Cultural Material for similar upon 10 years ago. Under the reasons. We are keen to have a WH Convention these must be

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W

James Blackburne James

Dean Whiting appointed to NZ Arts Council

ellingtonian Dean Whiting of Te Whanau a W Apanui descent has been appointed to the Arts Council of New Zealand.

In announcing the appointment in August, former Arts, Culture and Heritage Minister Maggie Barry said “Dean’s significant knowledge of te ao Māori and Māori arts and heritage make him an ideal person to fulfil the current vacancy on the board.”

“Dean has worked in private practice as a Māori Taonga conservator for marae From page 1: communities and is also a board will hold 5,000. The loss: the square’s Well they might, for when the time member of the International symmetry, and a chunk of the north- comes to return the Citizens Council on Monuments and Sites west corner which has, tentatively at Memorial to its rightful place, they (ICOMOS) New Zealand. least, two three-storey buildings could find the capacity of the plonked on it. remaining square significantly “He continues to work in the Māori arts and heritage field and reduced. “Key Move One” re- One would have thought the lively is currently employed as the shapes the square to create what thing about public space is surely Māori Heritage manager with are described as ‘more lively public plenty of space to be lively in. And it Heritage New Zealand, Pouhere spaces’. The gains: Post Office looks like the statue of John Robert Taonga.” Dean’s appointment is Place that can accommodate Godley has now lost the plot. 10,000 and Library Plaza, next (one until 31 August 2018. - David Reynolds hopes) to the war memorial, which

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projects including the rebuild of Individual Member Canterbury Provincial Chambers and Ohoka Homestead, and Conservation Plans and reports

Brian Dougan for Rehutai Homestead and Little River Coronation Library. rian is a practising Brian has had active B Architect involvement with Pomona Island based in Restoration (Manapouri) and Christchurch, Quail island (Otamahua) whose Restoration Trust and is a current company member of Lyttelton Reserves provides Management Committee.

heritage and

other architectural services for domestic, residential and commercial projects. Most recent projects are located throughout the South Island. Brian was born and raised in Christchurch. He completed a BSc in Chemistry at Canterbury followed by a Degree in Architecture at Auckland University in 1984. In year 2k he ICOMOS New Zealand undertook a Masters in Project Te Mana O Nga Pouwhenua O Te Ao Management at Victoria University in Melbourne. ICOMOS New Zealand News is published by ICOMOS New Zealand (Inc.) / Te Mana O Nga Pouwhenua O Te Ao - the New Zealand Following graduation from National Committee of the International Auckland, Brian worked for 11 Council on Monuments and Sites

years as an Architect on the Editor: David Reynolds West Coast of South Island before undertaking a 2-year Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of volunteer contract in third world the ICOMOS New Zealand Executive Board. © 2015 ICOMOS New Zealand Bhutan assisting with the World Bank funded development of Editorial contact: [email protected] the High School system. This Secretariat: [email protected] Web: www.icomos.org.nz involved integrating traditional International: www.icomos.org building and construction methods and materials with the Postal: P O Box 90 851 Victoria Street West, artistic and religious requirements Auckland 1142, New Zealand of each local community.

Further work included time in Mumbai, Singapore, Hong Kong and Melbourne working on both large and small-scale projects particularly in the area of building restoration, re-vitalising local communities and maintaining historical context.

Along with many other consultants in the Canterbury area, Brian has been heavily involved post-earthquake, in the New Members New Christchurch re-build with particular emphasis on Heritage

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The 67th Attingham Summer patronage and collecting of the School: Royal Family. Priority is given to those 12th - 29th July 2018 with professional or specialist knowledge. Some scholarship

assistance is available. Accompanied by specialist tutors

and lecturers, this intensive 18-day Deadline for applications: 12th course will include visits to February 2018 approximately 25 houses in Sussex, For further information and Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, County applications please click here

Durham and Northumberland. The

Summer School will examine the Note: Local funding assistance is country house in terms of available for the Attingham Summer architectural and social history, and School. Check the decorative arts and encourages http://www.museumsaotearoa.org.n discussion on topical issues of z/scholarship-awards conservation and interpretation. Full for information on the Clark and partial scholarships are Collection Scholarship. available and applications are invited from professionals working in 6th International Conference related fields. The course is directed on Heritage and Sustainable by David Adshead and Tessa Wild. Deadline for applications: 26th Development January 2018 Granada, Spain, 12-15 June 2018

For further information and The Conference will be held in applications please click here Granada, Spain, on 12-15 June 2018, in partnership with the Higher Royal Collection Studies: 2nd - Technical School for Building 11th September 2018 Engineering (ETSIE), University of Directed by Rebecca Lyons and run Granada. on behalf of Royal Collection Trust, A Special Chapter will welcome this strenuous 10-day course is based papers on Muslim Heritage. near Windsor and will visit royal For more information, visit the palaces in and around London with conference website. Training specialist tutors (many from the

Royal Collection Trust) and study the

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Ra’iatea’s Taputapuātea one of nineteen new sites inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List

living testimony to the use of limited he World Heritage Committee at resources for survival in the desert. its meeting in Krakow in July Water is supplied to the city through T inscribed 19 new cultural sites on a qanat system developed to draw Ra’iatea Island and in Denmark, underground water. The earthen France, Germany, Iran, Poland and architecture of Yazd has escaped the Russian Federation, along with the modernization that destroyed one that spans Croatia, Italy and many traditional earthen towns, Montenegro. retaining its traditional districts, the

The sites added, are: qanat system, traditional houses, bazars, hammams, mosques, synagogues, Zoroastrian temples and the historic garden of Dolat- abad. Earth Google Photo:

Sacred Island of The late Renaissance city fortress of Okinoshima and Palmanova, north-eastern Italy.

Associated Sites in the Italy, Croatia and Montenegro, spanning more than 1,000 kilometres

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P and the eastern Adriatic Coast. The Taputapuātea Marae Located 60 km off the western coast fortifications throughout the Stato da

of Kyushu island, the island of Terra protected the Republic of Taputapuātea Okinoshima is an exceptional Venice from other European powers Ra’iatea Island example of the tradition of worship to the northwest and those of the of a sacred island. The Stato da Mar protected the sea Taputapuātea on Ra’iatea Island is archaeological sites that have been routes and ports in the Adriatic Sea at the centre of the “Polynesian preserved on the Island are virtually to the Levant. They were necessary Triangle,” a vast portion of the intact, and provide a chronological to support the expansion and Pacific Ocean, dotted with islands, record of how the rituals performed authority of the Serenissima. The and the last part of the globe to be there changed from the 4th to the introduction of gunpowder led to settled by humans. The property 9th centuries CE. In these rituals, significant shifts in military techniques includes two forested valleys, a votive objects were deposited as and architecture that are reflected portion of lagoon and coral reef and offerings at different sites on the in the design of so-called alla a strip of open ocean. At the heart Island. Many of them are of exquisite modernaI bastioned, fortifications, of the property is the Taputapuātea workmanship and had been which were to spread throughout marae complex, a political, brought from overseas, providing Europe. ceremonial and funerary centre. It is evidence of intense exchanges characterized by a paved courtyard between the Japanese Kujataa Greenland: Norse with a large standing stone at its archipelago, the Korean Peninsula and Inuit Farming at the centre. Widespread in Polynesia, the and the Asian continent. Integrated marae were places where the world within the Grand Shrine of Edge of the Ice Cap of the living intersects the world of Munakata, the island of Okinoshima Denmark the ancestors. Taputapuātea is an is considered sacred to this day. exceptional testimony to 1,000 years Kujataa is a sub-arctic farming landscape located in the southern of mā'ohi civilization. Venetian Works of Defence region of Greenland. It bears witness between the 16th and 17th to the cultural histories of the Norse Historic City of Yazd hunters-gatherers who started (Islamic Republic of Iran Centuries: Stato da Terra – arriving from Iceland in the 10th Western Stato da Mar century and of the Norse farmers, The City of Yazd is located in the Croatia, Italy, Montenegro Inuit hunters and Inuit farming middle of the Iranian plateau, 270 communities that developed from kilomtres southeast of Isfahan, close This property consists of 15 the end of the 18th century. Despite to the Spice and Silk Roads. It bears components of defence works in

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their differences, the two cultures, significant contribution to the global methods to the existing urban European Norse and Inuit, created a production of lead and zinc. conurbation built in local materials. cultural landscape based on Mbanza Kongo illustrates, more than farming, grazing and marine anywhere in sub-Saharan Africa, the mammal hunting. The landscape profound changes caused by the represents the earliest introduction of introduction of Christianity and the farming to the Arctic, and the Norse arrival of the Portuguese into Central expansion of settlement beyond Africa. Europe. Asmara: A Modernist City Caves and Ice Age Art in of Africa the Swabian Jura Eritrea Germany Assumption Cathedral. Eastern elevation Located at over 2000 metres above

Modern humans first arrived in sea level, the capital of Eritrea Europe 43,000 years ago during the Assumption Cathedral and developed from the 1890’s onwards last ice age. One of the areas where Monastery of the town- as a military outpost for the Italian they took up residence was the island of Sviyazhsk colonial power. After 1935, Asmara Swabian Jura in southern Germany. underwent a large-scale Russian Federation Excavated from the 1860s, six caves programme of construction applying have revealed items dating from the Italian rationalist idiom of the The Assumption Cathedral is located 43,000 to 33,000 years ago. Among time to governmental edifices, in the town-island of Sviyazhsk and is them are carved figurines of animals residential and commercial part of the monastery of the same (including cave lions, mammoths, buildings, churches, mosques, name. Situated at the confluence of horses and cattle), musical synagogues, cinemas, hotels, etc. the Volga, the Sviyaga and the instruments and items of personal The property encompasses the area Shchuka rivers, at the crossroads of adornment. Other figurines depict of the city that resulted from various the Silk and Volga routes, Sviyazhsk creatures that are half animal, half phases of planning between 1893 was founded by Ivan the Terrible in human and there is one statuette of and 1941, as well as the indigenous 1551. It was from this outpost that he a female form. These unplanned neighbourhoods of initiated the conquest of the Kazan archaeological sites feature some of Arbate Asmera and Abbashawel. It Khanate. The Assumption Monastery the oldest figurative art worldwide is an exceptional example of early illustrates in its location and and help shed light on the origins of modernist urbanism at the beginning architectural composition the human artistic development. of the 20th century and its political and missionary programme application in an African context. developed by Tsar Ivan IV to extend

Tarnowskie Góry Lead- the Moscow state. The cathedral’s frescoes are among the rarest ǂKhomani Cultural Silver-Zinc Mine and its examples of Eastern Orthodox mural Landscape Underground Water paintings. Republic of South Africa Management System Poland Mbanza Kongo, vestiges of The ǂKhomani Cultural Landscape is the capital of the former located at the border with Botswana Located in Upper Silesia, in southern and Namibia in the northern part of Poland, one of the main mining Kingdom of Kongo the country, coinciding with the areas of central Europe, the site Angola Kalahari Gemsbok National Park includes the entire underground (KGNP). The large expanse of sand mine with adits, shafts, galleries and The town of Mbanza Kongo, located contains evidence of human water management system. Most of on a plateau at an altitude of 570 occupation from the Stone Age to the site is situated underground metres, was the political and spiritual the present and is associated with while the surface mining topography capital of the Kingdom of Kongo, the culture of the formerly nomade features the remains of the 19th one of the largest constituted states ǂKhomani San people and the century steam water pumping in Southern Africa from the 14th to strategies that allowed them to th station, which testifies to continuous 19 centuries. The historical area adapt to harsh desert conditions. efforts over three centuries to drain grew around the royal residence, They developed a specific the underground extraction zone. It the customary court and the holy ethnobotanical knowledge, cultural has made it possible to use tree, as well as the royal funeral practices and a worldview related undesirable water from the mines to places. When the Portuguese arrived to the geographical features of their supply towns and industry. in the 15th century they added environment. The ǂKhomani Cultural Tarnowskie Góry represents a stone buildings constructed in Landscape bears testimony to the accordance with European way of life that prevailed in the

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region and shaped the site over an awareness of the importance of three monotheistic religions: thousands of years. beautiful landscapes and triggered Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The early efforts to preserve them. town was sited at the crossroads of

trade routes for caravans travelling SA SA

- between southern Palestine, Sinai, BY Valongo Wharf Eastern Jordan, and the north of the Arabian Peninsula. Although the Archaeological Site subsequent Ottoman Period (1517- Brazil 1917) heralded an extension of the town to the surrounding areas and Valongo Wharf Archaeological Site brought numerous architectural is located in central Rio de Janeiro additions, particularly the raising of and encompasses the entirety of the roof level of houses to provide

Jornal do Comércio Square. It is in more upper stories, the overall

3.0 The Odeon CC Commons Creative Delgado Carlos the former harbour area of Rio de Mamluk morphology of the town is Janeiro in which the old stone wharf seen to have persisted with its was built for the landing of enslaved hierarchy of areas, quarters based Aphrodisias Africans reaching the South on ethnic, religious or professional Turkey American continent from 1811 groupings, and houses with groups onwards. An estimated 900,000 of rooms organized according to a Located in southwestern Turkey, in Africans arrived in South America via tree-shaped system. the upper valley of the Morsynus Valongo. The physical site is River, the site consists of two composed of several components: the archaeological archaeological layers, the lowest of site of Aphrodisias and the marble which consists of floor pavings in pé quarries northeast of the city. The de moleque style, attributed to the temple of Aphrodite dates from the original Valongo Wharf. It is the most

3rd century BCE and the city was important physical trace of the built one century later. The wealth of arrival of African slaves on the Aphrodisias came from the marble American continent. quarries and the art produced by its sculptors. The city streets are Miech Chanrasmey arranged around several large civic A temple in Sambor Prei Kuk structures, which include temples, a theatre, an agora, and two bath Temple Zone of Sambor complexes. Prei Kuk, Archaeological Site of Ancient Ishanapura

The English Lake District (Cambodia) United Kingdom

The archaeological site of Sambor

Domain Public Located in northwest England, the Prei Kuk, “the temple in the richness English Lake District is a mountainous Cave of the Patriarchs or Ibrahimi of the forest” in the Khmer area, whose valleys have been Mosque, Hebron language, has been identified as modelled by glaciers in the Ice Age Ishanapura, the capital of the and subsequently shaped by an Chenla Empire that flourished in the agro-pastoral land-use system Hebron / Al Khalil Old town late 6th and early 7th centuries CE. characterized by fields enclosed by (Palestine) The vestiges of the city cover an walls. The combined work of nature area of 25 square kilometres and and human activity has produced a The use of a local limestone shaped include a walled city centre as well harmonious landscape in which the the construction of the old town of as numerous temples, ten of which mountains are mirrored in the lakes. Hebron / Al-Khalil during the Mamluk are octagonal, unique specimens of Grand houses, gardens and parks period between 1250 and 1517. The their genre in southeast Asia. have been purposely created to centre of interest of the town was Decorated sandstone elements in enhance the beauty of this the site of Al mosque -Ibrahim / the the site are characteristic of the pre- landscape. This landscape was tomb of the Patriarchs whose Angkor decorative idiom, known as greatly appreciated from the 18th buildings are in a compound built in the Sambor Prei Kuk Style. Some of century onwards by the Picturesque the 1st century CE to protect the these elements, including lintels, and later Romantic movements, tombs of the patriarch Abraham / pediments and colonnades, are true which celebrated it in paintings, Ibrahim and his family. This place masterpieces. The art and drawings and words. It also inspired became a site of pilgrimage for the architecture developed here

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became models for other parts of the region and lay the ground for the unique Khmer style of the Angkor period.

Kulangsu: A historic international settlement China

Centre of THADof Centre

Sunlight Rock Temple Conservation Heritage Cultural

Kulangsu is a tiny island located on the estuary of the Chiu-lung River, facing the city of Xiamen. With the opening of a commercial port at Xiamen in 1843, and the establishment of the island as an international settlement in 1903, this island off the southern coast of the Chinese empire suddenly became an important window for Sino- foreign exchanges. Kulangsu is an exceptional example of the cultural fusion that emerged from these exchanges, which remain legible in its urban fabric. There is a mixture of different architectural styles including Traditional Southern Fujian Style, Western Classical Revival Style and Veranda Colonial Style. The most exceptional testimony of the fusion of various stylistic influences is a new architectural movement, the

Amoy Deco Style, which is a

AMC Danish Kinariwala Danish AMC synthesis of the Modernist style of the © early 20th century and Art Deco. mosques and tombs as well as Brick Minars at Sidi Bashir Mosque Kalupur, Ahmadabad important Hindu and Jain temples of

Historic City of later periods. The urban fabric is Ahmadabad made up of densely-packed India traditional houses (pols) in gated traditional streets (puras) with The walled city of Ahmadabad, characteristic features such as bird founded by Sultan Ahmad Shah in feeders, public wells and religious the 15th century, on the eastern institutions. The city continued to bank of the Sabarmati river, presents flourish as the capital of the State of a rich architectural heritage from Gujarat for six centuries, up to the the sultanate period, notably the present. Bhadra citadel, the walls and gates of the Fort city and numerous

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Free entry to heritage Lithuania: Free entry with an ICOMOS card to the sites with ICOMOS national galleries and museums

International Card United Kingdom Tate Modern, Tate Britain, London The following list, drawn together by Imperial War Museum (all sites – Duxford, several ICOMOS National HMAS Belfast, Cabinet War Rooms, IWM Committees, indicates sites and London, IWM North) museums that rewarded the ICOMOS National galleries and museums, card holder with free or discounted including special exhibitions at the Royal entry. Academy of Art and the British Museum

Some sites managed by English Heritage. Tunisia, Panama, the Dominican (Not Historic Scotland properties). Republic, Lithuania and Ukraine are Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, recent additions to the list. Massachusetts Wales

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston All Welsh heritage sites. ICOMOS Korea is currently reviewing the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, list and expects to be able to provide Boston. fuller information later this year. Eastern Europe ICOMOS New Zealand’s subscription runs Eastern Asia Czech Republic for the calendar year and membership China National Gallery, Prague cards are valid for the entire calendar X’ian (all cultural sites) Prague Castle, Prague year. Spanish Synagogue (part of Prague Southern Asia Jewish Museum), Prague. Please note that, while ICOMOS NZ India cannot guarantee these sites/museums Hungary will honour the card, ICOMOS members Vijayanagara (Hampi) World Heritage St. Mathias Cathedral, Budapest. have reported success gaining entry with archaeological site, Karnataka. the card in the past. Poland Iran The Royal Palace, Warsaw We would ask you to contact the Numerous museums, sites and Most heritage places and museums. ICOMOS NZ Secretariat with any monuments (reported by ICOMOS Iran). additions to or comments on this list. Ukraine Northern Africa Eastern Asia All the sites, public museums and galleries are free Japan Most national museums and some World Tunisia Heritage sites (reported by ICOMOS NB: Most East European countries All sites are free. Japan), though others report that recognise the ICOMOS card as an acceptance of the card is low. entitlement to at least a discounted entry to cultural sites and venues. Elsewhere it Central America & can be hit and miss, but always worth a Southeast Asia try. Caribbean Singapore National Museum of Singapore Western Europe

Panama Austria Free entry to World Heritage Western Asia Stefansdom, Vienna Sites and to most of the public Turkey Albertina Museum, Vienna and private museums Hagia Sophia, Istanbul Lichtenstein Palace Museum, Vienna

Topkapi Museum, Istanbul Belvedere Museum, Vienna Dominican Republic Istanbul Archaeological Museum, (Not – Fortress, Salzburg). Ministry of Culture, Department including the Archaeological Museum of Museums and some private (main building), Museum of the Ancient Belgium museums Orient and the Museum of Islamic Art Most historic places recognise the card. (tiled Kiosk).

North America France Northern Europe Free entry to all national United States Denmark museums/galleries (Musées Nationaux du Museum of Modern Art, New York Free entry to most World Heritage sites. Ministère de la Culture), including: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Musée D’Orsay, The Cloisters Museum, New York Musée du Louvre, (annexed to the Metropolitan Museum of Finland Château de Blois, Art, NY) Numerous general museums and cultural Château de Chambord, ‘Montecello’ – Charlottesville, Virginia heritage sites (reported by Palais de Versailles Historic New Harmony, Indiana ICOMOS Finland). Palais de Fontainebleau

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and all departmental and city museums. Portugal Victoria (It also gets free entry to the temporary / The Castelo Sao Jorge, Lisbon (ICOMOS Beleura House & Garden (Mornington, blockbuster exhibitions in these free entry is printed on the notice at the VIC) – visit by booked tour only: (03) 5975 institutions.) ticket counter). 2027; Individual ICOMOS members are An ICOMOS member can go straight Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon. welcome as guests at no cost. through entries reserved for ticket holders Free entry to World Heritage sites, Belem. without lining up (e.g. in the Louvre, The Johnston Collection (East Melbourne) Musee d’Orsay, etc and for the Free entry to all World Heritage places, all – visit by booked tour only: (03) 9416 blockbusters). state-managed palaces, villas and 2515; Individual ICOMOS members

gardens, Sintra. receive free admission to booked tours In cases where staff do not recognise the and concessional rates for programs. card explain that ICOMOS is affiliated Spain with ICOM and that there is an The Royal Sites, including El Escorial and arrangement for the same concessions West Australia Aranjuez. as ICOM members. Western Australian Museum (Perth) –free Alhambra Palace, Granada admission for Individual ICOMOS ICOMOS Spain reports that presenting There is also very frequent acceptance members to the Maritime Museum at the card works at numerous other sites of the card at almost all historic Fremantle (the only charging museum and museums. monuments and cultural institutions, among the group), and 10% discount including in Paris. admission to paying exhibitions at all branches. Oceania Germany New Zealand Australia Bauhaus Archiv, Berlin No discounts currently available.

Potsdam World Heritage Site, including ACT Sanssouci Park, Neuer Garten, National Gallery of Australia – free Babelsberg and Glienicke with their admission to Individual ICOMOS palaces, Berlin-Brandenenburg Pillnitz members for paying exhibitions. Palace, Dresden

Deutsches Museum Munchen, Munich. National Portrait Gallery – offers free admission to all, but Individual ICOMOS Netherlands members will receive concessional prices Van Gogh Museum for paying exhibitions. Museum Het Schip (Amsterdam School) Anne Frank House, Amsterdam. NSW Australian Museum Sydney– free Southern Europe admission for Individual ICOMOS members Greece National Archaeological Museum, Powerhouse Museum Science + Design Athens and archaeological sites, Sydney -free admission for Individual including the Acropolis, Delphi, ICOMOS members. Mycenae, Olympia, Ancient Corinth, and NSW Historic Houses Trust (all properties) Epidauros.

All cultural sites in Athens. South Australia History SA, Adelaide and elsewhere, SA–

free admission for Individual ICOMOS Italy members. It manages three museums: Most cultural sites in Rome. Majority of sites run by the Italian Ministry • Migration Museum, Adelaide: the of Culture, including national galleries and museums evolving story of migration to South Australia

Uffizi Gallery, Florence • National Motor Museum, Birdwood: Colosseum & Forum, Rome Stories, people and vehicles that Castellvechio Museo, Verona have shaped Australia’s motoring Teatro Olimpico (Palladio 1588), Vicenza history Pitti Palace, Firenze (Florence) Museo Civico (in Palazzo Publico), Siena • South Australian Maritime Museum, Vatican Museo (inc. Sistine Chapel), Port Adelaide: SA’s unique maritime Rome. history San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane Tasmania (Borromini 1657), Rome (reduced entry fee). Port Arthur Historic Sites, Tasman Galleria Borghese, Rome (reduced entry Peninsula, Tasmania – concessional List updated November 2016 fee). admission for Individual ICOMOS Galleria Nazionale de Moderna, Rome. members.

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