The Gaiety Theatre is one of Canterbury’s significant heritage buildings, and an Akaroa icon. Badly damaged in the earthquakes, the building has been meticulously strengthened and repaired.

Downer’s approach to the restoration of the 1885 Armagh Street Bridge was exemplary, from planning, to risk mitigation, to communication and implementation.

Built in 1886 and reputed to incorporate every type of brick and terra cotta tile then produced by the Homebush Brick, Tile and Pottery Works at Glentunnel this diminutive building has been repaired and strengthened post-earthquake.

Linwood Community Centre is not just a 19th century heritage building designed by Joseph Maddison, it is an important part of the local community.

Prior to the earthquakes the former BNZ building was a well preserved example of a substantial commercial building with imposing classical features appropriate to a bank of the 1880s. J Shivas purchased the building in 2015 to save it from demolition and it is currently being strengthened, repaired and restored…

Built in an English Domestic revival style that echoes features of the homestead, the Mona Vale Lodge makes an important contribution to the heritage landscape of this significant public heritage site.