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The Wellington Harbour Board archives, from its founding in 1880; The hand-drawn maps of Thomas Ward, who spent three years in the 1880s walking around Wellington sketching street plans; Building permits from 1892 and all completed contemporary resource and building consents (only live consents are held at the City Council offices)
New Zealand's Old Government Buildings sit on the Government Buildings Historic Reserve, on Lambton Quay in central Wellington. The buildings were completed in 1876 on land reclaimed from Wellington Harbour to house the young New Zealand Government and its public service. The building now houses the Victoria University of Wellington 's Law School.
A certificate of occupancy is evidence that the building complies substantially with the plans and specifications that have been submitted to, and approved by, the local authority. It complements a building permit —a document that must be filed by the applicant with the local authority before construction to indicate that the proposed ...
Designated. 18-Mar-1982. Reference no. 234. Wellington Harbour Board Head Office and Bond Store is a historic building on Jervois Quay in Wellington, New Zealand. The building currently houses the Wellington Museum. It was commissioned in 1890 by the Wellington Harbour Board to replace wooden buildings from the 1860s, designed by Frederick de ...
S. St Mary of the Angels, Wellington. St Mary's Cathedral, Wellington. Simla Crescent railway station. Space Place at Carter Observatory. Star Boating Club. Stewart Dawson's Building.
The former Ministry of Works Building in Napier, built in 1938 in Art Deco and Stripped Classical style [4]. The Head Office of the Ministry was in the Vogel Building in Wellington, named after former Premier Sir Julius Vogel, who helped create the Public Works Department during his term in office, through the Immigration and Public Works Act 1870. [5]
Wellington [b] is the capital city of New Zealand. It is located at the south-western tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Remutaka Range. Wellington is the third-largest city in New Zealand, [c] and is the administrative centre of the Wellington Region. It is the world's southernmost capital of a sovereign state. [14]
The building stands at 93 metres high and has twenty five stories above the ground, [1] making it the fourth tallest building in Wellington and the twenty fifth tallest building in New Zealand . [2] The floor size is estimated at 28,000 square metres (300,000 sq ft). The construction was valued at $45 million. [3]