St. James Theatre, Auckland

Wellesley Street is a street in the Auckland City Centre, New Zealand, located between the south-east corner of Victoria Park and Grafton Road. The street is split into two sections at the junction of Queen Street, Wellesley Street West and Wellesley Street East.

The Civic Theatre is a large heritage combination performing-arts theatre, live-music venue, and cinema seating 2,378 people in Auckland, New Zealand. First opened on 20 December 1929, it underwent a major renovation and two-year conservation effort in the late 1990s, and was reopened on 20 December 1999 (its 70th birthday). It is a famous example of the atmospheric theatre style wherein lighting and interior design create the illusion of an open sky complete with twinkling stars, giving the audience the impression of being seated in an outdoor auditorium at night. The Civic is managed by Auckland Live, a business unit of Auckland Unlimited.

The Auckland Central City Library (Māori: Tāmaki Pātaka Kōrero) is a public library located in the Auckland City Centre, New Zealand. The facility is the main branch of Auckland Libraries. The successor to the former central city library that was housed in the modern-day Auckland Art Gallery building, it was opened in 1971.

Waharoa, also known as Te Waharoa o Aotea, is a public sculpture located in Aotea Square, the city centre of Auckland, New Zealand. The expressionist piece was designed by Selwyn Muru, and depicts a waharoa, a traditional Māori gateway in front of a marae ātea; the open meeting courtyard at a marae. Muru took elements from traditional Māori and Pacific art forms, as well as contemporary elements. The work was erected at Aotea Square in 1990, and relocated to its current position in 2010. Artist Mei Hill has described Waharoa as "probably the defining Māori artwork of scale in Auckland".

The Auckland Savings Bank Building is an historic building located at 260 Queen Street, Auckland CBD. Built in 1884, the premises was formerly owned by the Auckland Savings Bank. In 1977, the building was acquired by the newly established McDonald's New Zealand and was converted into a fast food restaurant. It was the first McDonald's restaurant in Auckland and only the second in New Zealand (behind Porirua). Much of the facade and interior design have been renovated and preserved.

Aotea Square is a large paved public area in the CBD of Auckland, New Zealand. Officially opened in 1979 by Sir Dove-Myer Robinson next to Queen Street, it is used for open-air concerts and gatherings, and markets and political rallies. In November 2010, a major redevelopment of Aotea Square was completed. The square was redesigned to make it appropriate for use by crowds of up to 20,000 people.Its name is derived from Motu Aotea, the Māori name for Great Barrier Island, which is the largest offshore island of New Zealand, approximately 90 km from downtown Auckland.

ACG Senior College was a specialist, pre-university high school and part of ACG Education (formerly known as Academic Colleges Group) New Zealand. Previously located in the learning quarter of central Auckland, opposite the Central Library and near AUT and the University of Auckland. In December 2018, Senior College merged with ACG Parnell College at the newly-constructed Senior Campus in Newmarket.

Khartoum Place is a pedestrianised city square in the Auckland CBD, New Zealand. The square, protected by several mature trees, is located between Lorne Street and Kitchener Street, and provides a stairway connection between the two street levels. In 1993, in honour of the centenary of women's suffrage in New Zealand, a painted 2000–tile memorial and waterfall dedicated to Auckland's and New Zealand women's suffrage movement was installed in the stairway. The artist Claudia Pond Eyley and ceramicist Jan Morrison choose the Auckland-based suffragists depicted in the memorial. The women featured in the lower and main section include (from left): Amey Daldy – president of the Auckland Women's Franchise League, Anne Ward – inaugural president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union of New Zealand (WCTU NZ), Lizzie Frost – journalist, Matilda Allsopp – one of the first seven women enrolled to vote in Auckland for the Parliamentary elections, Elisabeth Yates – first woman mayor in New Zealand and the British Empire, Annie Jane Schnackenberg – president of the WCTU NZ in 1893, Fanny Brown – another woman celebrated for being among the first seven Auckland women to vote for Parliament, and Ada Wells – activist in the WCTU NZ Christchurch. In 2006/2007, $2.2 million were spent on upgrading the lower part of the square, with Council intending to spend another $1 million in 2011 to complete the upgrade on the upper level. The Auckland Art Gallery is located at the Kitchener Street end of the square, with other related exhibition and public space also arrayed around the square. In 2010 supporters of the Art Gallery campaigned to have the Women's Suffrage Memorial removed, arguing that it blocked the view from Lorne Street to the upgraded Art Gallery entrance. In 2006, there had already been an attempt to remove the memorial from the site. Brian Rudman, in an editorial in The New Zealand Herald spoke out against the removal, lambasting the proposed "processional stairway": "They see the wide stairway as a giant vacuum cleaner, sucking up pedestrians as they wander along Lorne St and dumping them into the new palace of fine arts."He also noted that – contrary to the 2006 attempt to have the Women's Suffrage Memorial removed, when the opponents (also connected to the Art Gallery) argued that it had no artistic merit (and were opposed by a public outcry) – in 2010 they argued from an urban design perspective, and were citing such "precedents" as Haussmann's leveling of parts of Paris for its grand new avenues.In 2011 the Auckland City Council voted to protect the Women's Suffrage Memorial in Khartoum Place in perpetuity.Lower Khartoum Place was renamed Te Hā o Hine Suffrage Place in July 2016 following a decision by the Waitematā Local Board. Te Hā o Hine comes from the whakatauki (proverb) ‘Me aro koe ki te hā o Hine ahu one’ which means ‘pay heed to the dignity of women’.

Gow Langsford Gallery is an art gallery in Auckland, New Zealand. The gallery was established in 1987 by John Gow and Gary Langsford. Gow Langsford represents and has represented many significant New Zealand and international artists, including Max Gimblett, Jacqueline Fahey, Paul Dibble and Dick Frizzell. Although Gow Langsford Gallery is often associated with John Leech Gallery, whose origins can be traced back to the mid-19th century, the former was created as a separate venture and with a different purpose in mind.

The Auckland Women's Suffrage Memorial is a public mural designed by artists Jan Morrison and Claudia Pond Eyley for the centenary of women securing the vote in New Zealand. It is one of the first and few dedicated suffrage memorials in New Zealand. It is located at Khartoum Place, Auckland CBD, on the stairs that connect Kitchener and Lorne Street and lead to Auckland Art Gallery.

Queen Street is the major commercial thoroughfare in the Auckland CBD, Auckland, New Zealand's main population centre. The northern end is at Queens Wharf on the Auckland waterfront, adjacent to the Britomart Transport Centre and the Downtown Ferry Terminal. The road is close to straight, the southern end being almost three kilometres away in a south-southwesterly direction on the Karangahape Road ridge, close to the residential suburbs in the interior of the Auckland isthmus.