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TOGETHER BUT APART

The brief was complicated to say the least: to co-locate Christchurch’s Shirley Boys’ High School and Avonside Girls’ High School; two single-sex schools with almost 150 years of history between them, each with a fairly conservative outlook and pedagogy.

According to John Sofo, director of ASC Architects, the firm that eventually carried out its design, there was a large and vociferous group of people

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