Here you can see the Maori influences on the art deco designs.
This building has a clover on it because the barrister who originally had
the building made was Irish.
Here you can see the Maori influences on the art deco designs.
Some of the interiors have also been kept in the art deco style.
This was the Naiper Fire Brigade and it is now the art deco shop.
Even some gardens in the down town area are even in zig-zags, a typical
art deco feature.
This smilie face is in a garden near the beach in Naiper...not art deco.
:)
Under this pavilion is where the rubble from the old city was piled.
The silver ball that I am standing next to is a memorial to the sailors
of H.M.S. Veronica, who helped locals during and after the Earthquake...they
sent word to Auckland, rescued people, aided in putting out fires, etc...general
heroics.