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'Cardboard cathedral' to open late August

Posted on: July 12, 2013 3:36 PM
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Martin van Beynen, The Press

First it was February, then Easter, then July, but now it looks like August.

The so-called Cardboard Cathedral has turned out to be a normal building project, the Anglican church says, but should be open for services by the end of the next month.

The temporary Anglican cathedral, designed by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban and incorporating 98 beams incased in cardboard, had been subject to normal construction delays, said Anglican church spokesman Jason Rhodes.

"There has been an ongoing combination of things from how long it takes to get a resource consent to building issues to weather issues. It's been a whole heap of things."'

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