PHOTO: ROSS GIBLIN/STUFF The 1912 homes will soon be demolished but the concrete building behind seems to have a reprieve.
Two unique 1912 homes are just metres away from a 1960s concrete building across from Wellington’s Basin Reserve. The excavator sitting between the two is about to start demolishing the former.
China is about to start work on a new embassy at the site where they sit. It bought the concrete building for almost four-times its value and disregarded pleas to save the two Edwardian terraced homes, which are expected to be demolished within days.
The move – on land formerly owned by supermarket group Foodstuffs on the corner of Rugby and Tasman streets – comes after efforts to give heritage status to the 1912 homes faltered and the timeframe to move them elsewhere proved impossibly tight.
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