Centennial Exhibition tower, 1940
Edmund Anscombe's design for the Centennial Tower at the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition in Wellington. The sharp, modern lines of the buildings were seen to capture the wave of modernity and progress that New Zealand was riding.
Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: 1/2-117761-F
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