Isn’t this just copying Europe?
No. New Zealand already has this architecture, and has had it for well over a century. Oamaru’s Victorian precinct is built from local whitestone. Dunedin’s railway station and the University of Otago, and Christchurch’s Arts Centre and Canterbury Museum, are among the finest heritage buildings in the country.
These buildings were designed here, built by New Zealanders, and made from New Zealand stone. They are already part of our heritage. Building more of them is not borrowing someone else’s culture. It is continuing our own.
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