Dunedin

Dunedin has more intact Victorian and Edwardian architecture than anywhere else in New Zealand: bluestone banks, a railway station, warehouses with real carved detail. It should be the single best argument in the country for building traditionally. Instead, decades of infill have dropped flat, budget modernist boxes directly between heritage buildings, breaking every streetscape they touch. Stand on the Exchange or lower Stuart Street and the contrast isn’t subtle: one building was built to be looked at, and its neighbour wasn’t built to be looked at all.

Heritage

Infill

Restore and reoccupy Dunedin’s heritage stock first. An empty heritage building is a bigger loss than any empty section, and require infill on heritage streets to match the cornice lines, materials, and proportions of what’s next door.

What this could look like.

Not a construction plan. A picture of what Dunedin could become if the rules changed and the city chose to build with care. Civex does not build anything itself; we make the case.