Auckland Town Hall
Renaissance-style civic palace with a clock tower and a hall famed for near-perfect acoustics.
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This guide to Auckland Town Hall traces the building from a 1911 design competition won by Melbourne brothers J.J. and E.J. Clark, through construction in pale limestone and dark bluestone, to a Great Hall modeled on Leipzig's Gewandhaus for its acoustics. You'll meet organist Edwin Lemare, whose specifications shaped the hall's enormous pipe organ, and hear how a room built for a solo unamplified voice later hosted boxing matches during the 1950 British Empire Games.
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