Theatre Royal and Normal School
Sir, —“The Press’’ fails to 'understand the concept of! conservation when it suggests that the criteria for judgment should be the building’s (uniqueness or its being an 'outstanding example of a | style of architecture. Applied I in Christchurch one would be hard pressed to justify preservation and one’s mind boggles at the thought of portions of cities such as Florence or Cambridge being reduced to rubble. Buildings are intriguing examples of ■ the life style of previous generations as well as the expression of a period of hisItory and as such form an (essential part in the townscape in any city. It has been well said that-a city without I its old buildings is like a ; person without a memory. Are not our values astray when we expend millions of dollars on items of waging war to destroy, yet find difificulty in finding money to preserve what is part of our culture? —Yours, etc., D. E. DONNITHORNE. February 20, 1975.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33774, 21 February 1975, Page 12
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