BUILDING OF THE MILLION BRICKS
The new Christchurch railway station could be known as “the building of the million bricks.” This is the number of locally-made red bricks which have been used in the station’s construction. Huge quantities of other building materials have been used in the station’s superstructure—l3oo tons of structural and reinforcing steel, 3550 sq. yds of steel-mekh reinforcing, 7850 cubic yds. of concrete, 9500 sq. ft. of marble, 6200 sq. ft. of grapite, 15,500 sq. ft. of terrazzo, and 28,500 sq. ft. of tiles. If the basement and foundations were included, the quantities of steel and concrete would be considerably increased.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29350, 1 November 1960, Page 23
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