Goodbye to Gordon Wilson state highrise

From Sunday Morning, 7:25 am on 4 March 2018

An imposing high-rise state housing block at Number 139 Greys Ave was built in 1957 and is described as "unique". It's being bulldozed by Housing New Zealand for a modern block of social housing units. But Jeremy Hansen says the apartments designed by architect Gordon Wilson should never have been allowed to fall into disrepair.

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