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The Flats from halfway up the Dixon Street steps The Dixon Street Flats in central Wellington were completed in 1944 [ 1 ] as part of the first Labour Government's state housing program. They were designed by the chief architect of the Department of Housing Construction Gordon Wilson .
Dixon Street Flats [3] 1944: 134 Dixon Street, Wellington: A key building in the development of Modern architecture in New Zealand and is one of the first examples of that style in New Zealand it was designed in association with Ernst Plischke. Drawings prepared in 1940. [12] The Dixon Street flats were awarded a gold medal by the NZIA in 1947. [1]
The first to be built were the low rise family flats in the Wellington suburb of Berhampore and the largest block was the ten-storey Dixon Street Flats in central Wellington containing 115 one-bedroomed flats for couples and single people. [25] The first of the new state houses was completed at 12 Fife Lane in Miramar, Wellington, in
14 St Mary Street, Thorndon: 7281: Dixon Street Flats: Historic Place Category 1: 134 Dixon Street: 7395: Old Coach Road: Historic Place Category 1: Old Coach Road, Johnsonville: 7396: Shed 22: Historic Place Category 2: Cable St/Taranaki St: 7417: Odlins Building: Historic Place Category 1: 11 Cable Street: 7418: Post and Telegraph Building ...
Pages in category "Buildings and structures in Wellington City" The following 119 pages are in this category, out of 119 total. ... Dixon Street Flats; Dominion ...
Her linocut Botanical Gardens, Wellington was reproduced on the cover of Art in New Zealand in 1943. [2] Bolton illustrated several children's books, and painted a mural on Wellington's modernist Dixon Street Flats. [2] Bolton held exhibitions at the A. M. Nicholas Studio in Canberra, and in 1955 at the Architectural Centre Gallery in ...
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Abel Tasman Monument (1942) St Mary's Church, Taihape (1951) Massey House, Wellington (1957) (centre) When Plischke arrived in New Zealand in 1939 with his wife Anna, he was already known in architectural circles to be at the forefront of modernist design. [2] He began working for the Ministry of Housing on projects such as the Dixon Street Flats.