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What does the National Music Centre planned for Civic Square precinct look like?

From Stuff

Wellingtonians are today (9 March) getting their first look at the National Music Centre coming to the redeveloped Civic Square precinct, with champions of the broader development saying it will give the capital a cultural complex to rival New York’s renowned Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

Victoria University of Wellington and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra on Tuesday night unveiled architectural drawings for the National Music Centre, which will occupy part of the refurbished Town Hall and two floors of a new building that will go up in the car park next to the Michael Fowler Centre.

The car park is currently the temporary home of the Royal New Zealand Ballet, which will move to the St James Theatre once it reopens this year.

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