frontal symmetry restored by removal of some brickwork panels

photo from when the building was a gallery as part of the 1925 South Seas Exhibition

front of the neglected building before conservation work began

Art Gallery entry 2011 before construction began

Sargood front entry area - 1970's interventions stripped away

2013 entry portico reinstated, painted and brickwork restored

front of the building on completion of the rehabilitation work

contemplation lawn (reflection pool) with time-wall seat

Pellichet Bay map graphic on gallery floor

Pohutukawa removed from the front used to clad kitchen doors

condition of the former art gallery after being let to rugby franchise

former gallery converted to seminar room

sail cloth access verandah added to the east side

former sculpture gallery converted to gym

op-art end faces University of Otago Oval

brick panels removed for new glass doors & sidelights to overlook park

The Sargood Centre

Logan Park, Dunedin

Client: Dunedin City Council, 2012

Conservation, restoration and adaptive reuse project involving rehabilitation of the collection of buildings on Logan Park sports ground. Originally home of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. The former main gallery is a Heritage NZ Category 1 building that had been progressively reduced in size to make way for expansion of the adjoining cricket ground at University Oval.

The buildings were gifted to Dunedin City by the Sargood family in 1926. The City Council, assisted by a generous contribution from the Sargood Bequest in 2011 undertook the project to convert the badly deteriorated buildings for occupation by Otago Polytechnic Institute of Sport & Adventure and Sport Otago.