Queen Street is the major commercial thoroughfare in the Auckland CBD,Auckland,New Zealand's main population centre. The northern end is at Queens Wharf on the Auckland waterfront,adjacent to the Britomart Transport Centre and the Downtown Ferry Terminal. The road is close to straight,the southern end being almost three kilometres away in a south-southwesterly direction on the Karangahape Road ridge,close to the residential suburbs in the interior of the Auckland isthmus.
Freemans Bay is the name of a former bay and now inner city suburb of Auckland,in the North Island of New Zealand. The bay has been filled in to a considerable extent,with the reclamation area now totally concealing the ancient shoreline. Historically a poor and often disreputable quarter,it is now a comparatively wealthy and desirable neighbourhood known for its mix of heritage homes and more recent single-dwelling houses,as well as for its two large parks.
Ponsonby is an inner-city suburb of Auckland located 2 km west of the Auckland CBD. The suburb is oriented along a ridge running north–south,which is followed by the main street of the suburb,Ponsonby Road.
New Zealand Parliament Buildings house the New Zealand Parliament and are on a 45,000 square metre site at the northern end of Lambton Quay,Wellington. From north to south,they are the Parliamentary Library building (1899);the Edwardian neoclassical-style Parliament House (1922);the executive wing,called "The Beehive" (1977);and Bowen House. Currently,an additional building for housing Members of Parliament is under construction,which is expected to be completed in 2026. Whilst most of the individual buildings are outstanding for different reasons,the overall setting that has been achieved "has little aesthetic or architectural coherence".
Saint Marys Bay is an inner suburb of Auckland,New Zealand.
Auckland Town Hall is an Edwardian building on Queen Street in the Auckland CBD,New Zealand,known both for its original and ongoing use for administrative functions,as well as its famed Great Hall and separate Concert Chamber. Auckland Town Hall and its surrounding context is highly protected as a 'Category A' heritage site in the Auckland District Plan,registered by Heritage New Zealand as a Category I Historic Place.
The Auckland Ferry Terminal,also called the Downtown Ferry Terminal,is the hub of the Auckland ferry network,which connects the Auckland CBD with suburbs in North Shore,West Auckland,and South Auckland,and islands in the Hauraki Gulf. The terminal is on the Auckland waterfront,at the north end of Queen Street,across Quay Street from the Waitematārailway station,which is the hub for local buses and trains.
Edwardian architecture usually means a Neo-Baroque architectural style that was popular for public buildings in the British Empire during the Edwardian era (1901–1910). Architecture up to 1914 is commonly included in this style.
Gummer and Ford was an architectural firm founded in 1923 in Auckland,New Zealand,by William Gummer and Charles Reginald Ford. It was among the country's best-regarded architectural firm of the first half of the 20th century,designing numerous iconic buildings,including the former National Art Gallery and Dominion Museum in Wellington and the old Auckland Railway Station. Eighteen of the company's buildings have been registered as significant historic places by Heritage New Zealand. In 2006 an exhibition of their work was staged at The University of Auckland's Gus Fisher Gallery,and in 2007 the firm was described as 'the best architectural practice of all time in New Zealand'.
Thomson Wilson Leys was a New Zealand journalist,editor,newspaper proprietor and philanthropist. He was born in Sneinton,Nottinghamshire,England on 23 April 1850.
William Alfred Holman was a New Zealand architect and a member of the New Zealand Institute of Architects who designed prominent commercial and residential buildings in Auckland as well as Whangārei,Hamilton,Gisborne and Christchurch.
Soldiers Memorial Hall is a heritage-listed memorial at 149 Herries Street,Toowoomba City,Queensland,Australia. It was designed by Hodgen &Hodgen (Toowoomba) and built from 1923 to 1959 by Smith Bros (Toowoomba). It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 17 December 1999.
Stockport Central Library is a Carnegie library in Stockport,Greater Manchester,England. It was built in 1913–15 to designs by Bradshaw,Gass and Hope in the Edwardian Baroque style and as of 2023 continues to serve as Stockport's largest library.
The Taranaki Cathedral Church of St Mary is a historic Anglican cathedral church,located at 37 Vivian Street,New Plymouth,in New Zealand.
Riccarton House is an historic building in Christchurch,New Zealand. It is part of the Riccarton estate,the first area in Christchurch lived in by British settlers,after which the suburb of Riccarton is named. The house was commissioned by Jane Deans,the widow of Canterbury pioneer John Deans,and finished in 1856. It was twice extended;first in 1874,and the work carried out in 1900 more than doubled the size of the house. The Riccarton estate has in stages become the property of Christchurch City Council and Riccarton House itself was sold by the Deans family to the city in 1947. Damaged by the earthquakes in 2010 and 2011,the repaired and renovated building was reopened in June 2014. Riccarton House is used as a restaurant and for functions,and a popular market is held on Saturdays in front of it.
The Oamaru Opera House and former Town Hall in Oamaru is a historic building and current performance venue on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand. The building is classified as a "Category I" historic place by Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga,previously known as the New Zealand Historic Places Trust.
Carlile House,formerly Costley Training Institute,was a boys' home and training centre,built in 1886. It was enabled by a bequest of £12,500 from Edward Costley. It was originally bequest to the Kohimarama Training School,however,the Kohimarama Training School had since closed. The trustees recommended that a training institution should be established and Sir Robert Stout prepared a Bill that passed without opposition,entitled "The Costley Training Institution Act,1885".
The Ponsonby Post Office is a Heritage New Zealand Category 1 Historic Place. It is the former post office for the suburb of Ponsonby,and is located in Three Lamps area of Ponsonby.
Hove Library is a public lending library serving Hove,part of the English city of Brighton and Hove. The "highly inventive" Edwardian Baroque/Renaissance Revival-style building,a Carnegie library designed by the architects Percy Robinson and W. Alban Jones of Leeds,opened in 1908 on Church Road,succeeding a library founded in 1890 in a house on the nearby Grand Avenue. The building has been listed at Grade II by Historic England for its architectural and historical importance.
John Mitchell and Robert Martin Watt were a pair of New Zealand architects who designed numerous buildings,primarily educational buildings,several of which have been heritage listed.
