{"id":2939,"date":"2017-09-25T22:28:09","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T22:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/designtel.co\/?p=2939"},"modified":"2017-09-26T02:51:32","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T02:51:32","slug":"christchurch-town-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/design.tel\/christchurch-town-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Christchurch Town Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the midst of a full restoration and refurbishment following substantial earthquake damage in 2010\/11, the Christchurch Town Hall is an important piece of modern architectural constructivism in New Zealand and a product of a rigorous government-led competition that saw architects <span class=\"st\">Sir Miles Warren and Maurice Mahoney gain the commission. Comprising\u00a0<\/span>a 2600-seat main auditorium, 1000-seat theatre, a stage box, two conference rooms, a restaurant and a pre-function foyer area. Bladed, masonry walls of various sizes offer a defining aesthetic, structurally integral but also key to the acoustic function of the space with much of the reverberation and associated formal analysis conducted by Dr. Harold Marshall, a pioneer of new-age acoustic spatial treatment.<\/p>\n<p>For more, see the architect&#8217;s copy <a href=\"https:\/\/warrenandmahoney.com\/portfolio\/christchurch-town-hall\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the midst of a full restoration and refurbishment following substantial earthquake damage in 2010\/11, the Christchurch Town Hall is an important piece of modern architectural constructivism in New Zealand and a product of a rigorous government-led competition that saw architects Sir Miles Warren and Maurice Mahoney gain the commission. Comprising\u00a0a 2600-seat main auditorium, 1000-seat &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2941,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}