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Baycourt Community and Arts Centre

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Baycourt Community and Arts Centre is a multi-purpose performing arts and theatre facility in Tauranga, New Zealand. It was designed by Warren and Mahoney, and has a main auditorium, the Addison Theatre, that seats 589. The Addison Theatre is named after Bob Addison, chairman of a group of local residents who formed the Tauranga Community Arts Council and developed the original proposal for a community and arts centre in 1974. It took nine years of fundraising and planning before the centre was built and officially opened in 1983.Warren and Mahoney won an award for their design, from the Waikato Bay of Plenty branch of the New Zealand Institute of Architects.One of the unusual features of Baycourt is its Wurlizter organ. The instrument is a 1926 Mighty Wurli (2/10 Wurlitzer Model H Opus 1482). It was originally installed in a theatre in Wellington, then moved to a shed in Tokoroa, and then into the former Tauranga Town Hall before being installed in Baycourt.

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Wharf Street, Tauranga Tauranga Central

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3110 Tauranga, Tauranga Central
Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
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