Architect first up for festival

Within the cardboard structure of the cathedral he designed, award-winning Japanese architect Shigeru Ban opened Christchurch’s biennial writer’s festival with stories of how it came about. As a child, Ban enjoyed watching his parents renovate their home by hand, to house the many woman who came from outside Tokyo to sew for his fashion designer mother

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Opera star sings ‘Frozen’

You can only hope that Jonathan Lemalu knows a good dry-cleaner, after he endured not one, but two ice-bucket challenges today*. Dressed in his finest performance tails, NZSO bass singer Lemalu headed for Civic Square to decline the challenge he’d received, but instead a mysterious man, later identified as one Jason Henderson, doused him twice in the space of 30 seconds.

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