Photo: Supplied / National Archives
An independent assessment has found the country's new Archives building achieves air-tightness far beyond national and international archival standards.
The $290 million dollar building is near the National Library in Wellington and has been built on a site of a former defence building that had to be demolished after the Kaikoura earthquake and will open to the public next year.
The facade of the new building - named Te Rua - is central to meeting both UNESCO Memory of the World obligations and legislative requirements that compel Archives New Zealand to safeguard documents and taonga in perpetuity.
