Posts in “Knowledge Centre” category

We talk about sustainable building practices often although there’s one type of sustainable building that may not feature as prominently as those where new materials or solutions are deployed. We’re talking about repurposed buildings – buildings that started their life for one purpose and then along the way, were transformed and given a new life, ...

In the heart of Timaru, on an elevated site lives a grand old lady, St Mary’s Anglican Church. St Mary’s Church is an authentic example of English Gothic revival and one of a few of such buildings in the Southern Hemisphere built of basalt rock, dressed with Oamaru stone and roofed in Welsh slate. Church ...