Dominion Building, Wellington

Dominion Building
Dominion Building
	The Dominion Building in around 1940
General information
Location	27-35 Mercer Street, Wellington, New Zealand
Coordinates	41°17′19″S 174°46′33″E / 41.2887°S 174.7758°ECoordinates: 41°17′19″S 174°46′33″E / 41.2887°S 174.7758°E
Completed	1928
Design and construction
Architect	Crichton, McKay and Haughton
Heritage New Zealand – Category II
Designated	10 September 1981
Reference no.	1358

The Dominion Building is a historic structure on the corner of Mercer Street and Victoria Street in Wellington, New Zealand. Originally designed as the headquarters of The Dominion newspaper, it now houses a mix of apartments, offices and retail areas.

A distinctive seven-storey building of some elegance, the Dominion has a frontage of stone imported from Caen in France and interiors of Queensland marble. The building follows the bend in the road. Its most striking feature is topped by a copper-covered tower with a lantern turret.^[1]

In the mid-1970s, The Dominion newspaper moved out of the building. The complex was redesigned by Ian Athfield in 1995.^[2]

The building is classified as a "Category 2" by Heritage New Zealand.^[3]

References[]

^ ^a ^b Kernohan, D. (1994). "Wellington's Old Buildings", Wellington: Victoria University Press
^ [1] Archived August 20, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
^ "Dominion Building". Register of Historic Places. Heritage New Zealand. Retrieved 21 December 2009.

External links[]

The Dominion Building website
Listing on the New Zealand Heritage website

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[Kernohan,_D._1994-1] Kernohan, D. (1994). "Wellington's Old Buildings", Wellington: Victoria University Press

[2] [1] Archived August 20, 2009, at the Wayback Machine

[3] "Dominion Building". Register of Historic Places. Heritage New Zealand. Retrieved 21 December 2009.

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