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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
New Zealand's bold national museum, renowned for its interactive exhibits, Maori taonga, and a colossal squid specimen.
1 km · about 5 min drive
Wellington Region, New Zealand · Oceania
Wellington is worth a stop: 1km from Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
Wellington is a city located in Wellington Region, New Zealand. With a population of 381,900, it is an important destination in Oceania.
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Stewart Dawson's building was a historic building on the corner of Lambton Quay and Willis Street in Wellington, New Zealand. The façade has been retained. Built in 1900 for the London jeweller David Stewart Dawson, it was located on a prominent corner where major thoroughfares Lambton Quay and Willis St meet. TheRead more
site, commonly known as 'Stewart Dawson's corner', is particularly important to the history of Wellington.
The site had been known since the 1840s as Clay Point or Windy Point. Located on Wellington's original beach front, the site was marked as the 88th most desirable acre in Wellington by New Zealand Company selectors. In 1900 Dawson commissioned Wellington architect William Charles Chatfield to design a building to fit the triangular site. Chatfield designed a three-storey building with a front that followed the angle created by the junction of Lambton Quay and Willis Street.
Stewart Dawson's building was a fine example of Victorian commercial architecture. Italianate in style, it has a well proportioned façade with pilasters heavily decorated with fine floral ornamentation.
The building was classified as a Category 2 Historic Place by the Heritage New Zealand. In 2016 Stewart Dawson's jewellery company moved out. Stewart Dawson's building and the heritage buildings on either side of it were demolished, with the historic façades retained, and a new building is being constructed behind the façades. Argosy Property Limited, who own the site, originally planned to construct a five-storey building on the site but after the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake realised there was a market demand for larger resilient buildings and came up with a new design for a 12-storey block. The building will be fully electric and energy efficient and will be leased by the Department of Statistics and the Ministry for the Environment. Completion was due in April 2021 but after delays and cost increases a revised completion date of February 2022 was announced.
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Wellington is located in Wellington Region, New Zealand, Oceania. The coordinates are -41.2866 latitude, 174.7756 longitude.
Wellington has a population of approximately 381,900 people, making it a city in New Zealand.
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New Zealand's bold national museum, renowned for its interactive exhibits, Maori taonga, and a colossal squid specimen.
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