ASSESSMENT CRITERIA FROM HERITAGE NEW ZEALAND: CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE.
(a) The extent to which the place reflects important or representative aspects of New Zealand history:
The Dorset Street Flats are a response to changing social needs for housing in the post-war period and new requirements for inner-city living among young, single professionals. The Flats marked the emergence of a new kind of residential living in New Zealand: a small-scale group of purpose-designed, modern, modest-sized one-bedroom city flats for minimal living. The influence of this building type on Christchurch domestic architecture is reflected in the repetition of aspects of this design in later projects by Miles Warren and other architects. The Flats possess outstanding significance as an early articulation of Modernism and in the estabiishment of a dwelling type that has become characleristic of Christchurch architecture and highly influential in the development of New Zealand's post-war architecture.
http://www.heritage.org.nz/the-list/details/7804
(a) The extent to which the place reflects important or representative aspects of New Zealand history:
The Dorset Street Flats are a response to changing social needs for housing in the post-war period and new requirements for inner-city living among young, single professionals. The Flats marked the emergence of a new kind of residential living in New Zealand: a small-scale group of purpose-designed, modern, modest-sized one-bedroom city flats for minimal living. The influence of this building type on Christchurch domestic architecture is reflected in the repetition of aspects of this design in later projects by Miles Warren and other architects. The Flats possess outstanding significance as an early articulation of Modernism and in the estabiishment of a dwelling type that has become characleristic of Christchurch architecture and highly influential in the development of New Zealand's post-war architecture.
http://www.heritage.org.nz/the-list/details/7804
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