Developing damaged buildings | A Gallery from The Weekend | RNZ National

Dunedin City Council Heritage Planner Glen Hazelton takes Lynn Freeman to meet developers who are both dedicated and crazy enough to take on severely dilapidated old warehouses - we're talking more holes than floorboards and trees growing inside all the cracks and broken windows - and restoring them.

Interior of David's new project (photo supplied)

Exterior of David's new building

Home Handyman's dream David's new building

Tony's courtyard in renovated building

Archeological finds Tony's building

Exterior John's building

Close up of the well worn boot Tony's building

Union Steam Ship Company interior

Exterior Tony's Building

Interior David's new building

Interior garden David's new building

View of rennovated building Warehouse precinct

Union Steam Ship Company building exterior

Preserved feature Tony's building

Union Steam Ship Company entrance

Watch your step! David's new building

Door to nowhere in David's new building

Interior John's building

Detail bank safe old Shipping Building

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