Riverside reinvention: Oxford Terrace comes alive again
Print this storyFew developments signify the greater rebuild in the way the bars opening up along the Avon River in the central city do. Although the post-quake incarnation of ‘The Strip’ was conceptualised by Antony Gough, it was the building alongside on the corner of Oxford Terrace and Hereford Street purchased and developed by Richard […]
Triumph at the Terraces: checking out Dux De Lux Group’s latest venture Terrace Tavern
Print this storyI recently joined Richard Sinke and Lisa O’Brien Sinke, owners of the Dux De Lux Group, for a chat – and a taste – of the new Terrace Tavern at 134 Oxford Terrace, the area once known as ‘the strip’. The style of TT reminded me of a great mid-west bar and restaurant. […]
Creating places with punch: meet the imaginationologists at Dream It who are designing clever new spaces in our city
Print this storyAs our new city starts to develop and people slowly make their way back into the central city, it will be interesting to see where the winners and the losers of the social scene will be. A bar that just pours beer will simply not make it any more. There need to be […]
King of the rebuild: we talk to Antony Gough about The Terraces and his take on post-quake Christchurch
Print this storyThe recent opening of The Terraces represents a formative moment in our long rebuild process. Replacing our late-lamented ‘Strip’, not only literally and physically, but viscerally in both hearts and minds, it symbolises the awakening of the city from its developmental coma. One of so many wonderful new builds in the city, the […]