Te Ara Ātea is a community library and cultural center at 56 Tennyson Street in Rolleston, designed by Warren and Mahoney for the Selwyn District Council. Construction was completed on November 4, 2021, and it opened on December 2, 2021. The article gives no start date, style or materials.
The two-storey building covers 2,200 square meters (23,700 square feet) and cost NZ$22.7 million. It holds a library, art and museum spaces, workshops, meeting rooms and a performance space with lighting and gantries. It also houses New Zealand's largest video wall.
It won a Designers Institute of New Zealand design award. In its first year, door counters logged 171,673 visits. The library saw new memberships rise 125 percent over the previous year's Rolleston Library. After residents asked, the council added pictorial and digital signage to advertise the building's services.
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