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This is the so-called cardboard or transitional cathedral, a rare example of something replaced imaginatively and successfully...there seems to be no money to do much other rebuilding yet, though there are cranes and hopeful signs in lots of places. After all, this city is only the size of Woking plus Knaphill and Goldsworth Park - or half the population of Solihull. It's still the biggest city in the South Island! (Correction - it's the size of Coventry, but without the traffic!!) Off to the North tomorrow, flying to Auckland in the morning. Please can I come here again sometime?!
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S x My comments on previous page re Christchurch. A positive note on your entry here. That's the spirit. Xx
S x Re building material, perhaps the very cardboard is not at all transitional? The paper walls of Japan, the bamboo plaits walls of Indonesia. I think China traditionally use immediate local rocks?