Saving buildings
Sir, — Last year, after a lifetime of “Going to Venice some day,” I finally arrived. And in a familiar dream I travelled the Grand Canal, walked over bridges, gazed open-mouthed across the waters and up at domes and doorways, etc. It was all so familiar. I had “been there” so often in books, pictures and photographs. I can look at Canaletto’s eighteenth century paintings of Venice and my own 1982 photos and the views are unchanged. Not so for those who revisit Christchurch — or any New Zealand city. When I returned, the stately old National Bank of Hereford Street had gone. What an imposing city central art gallery it might have become — an extra to the Robert McDougall. Anyone who lived here 30 years ago would feel almost lost in unfamiliar surroundings. Let us stop it now — this obliterating of so much of the old, thinking we will replace it with something better. — Yours, etc.,
E. H. HALLIDAY. June 10, 1983.
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Press, 15 June 1983, Page 12
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