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Wellington Central Library (Te Matapihi): Exterior · Te Matapihi ki te Ao Nui Wellington Central Library
1/5 · Exterior · Te Matapihi ki te Ao Nui Wellington Central LibraryPhoto: Tom Ackroyd · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Wellington Central Library (Te Matapihi): Exterior
2/5 · ExteriorPhoto: Tom Ackroyd · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Wellington Central Library (Te Matapihi): Exterior · Wellington Central Library, New Zealand, 8 August 2009
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Wellington Central Library (Te Matapihi): Interior · Inside Te Matapihi ki te Ao Nui Central Library Wellington
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Wellington Central Library (Te Matapihi): Detail · Te Matapihi ki te Ao Nui Wellington Central Library, detail
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Photo 1: Exterior · Te Matapihi ki te Ao Nui Wellington Central LibraryPhoto 2: ExteriorPhoto 3: Exterior · Wellington Central Library, New Zealand, 8 August 2009Photo 4: Interior · Inside Te Matapihi ki te Ao Nui Central Library WellingtonPhoto 5: Detail · Te Matapihi ki te Ao Nui Wellington Central Library, detail

Library · Postmodernism

Wellington Central Library (Te Matapihi)

Athfield Architects (Ian Athfield) · Wellington, NZ · 1991

Key featuresLibrary on Civic Square with a curving glass wall behind a colonnade of metal nīkau-palm columns.

Architect
Athfield Architects (Ian Athfield)
Place
Wellington, NZ
Year
1991
Typology
Library
Movement
Postmodernism
Region
Oceania
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