Sweaters, caps, tote bags and even tea towels — some depicting cross-sections from the original designs — are being sold in the hopes of spreading the campaign to a wider audience.
The series of four interconnected lecture spaces, designed in 1974 by the late Ted McCoy, have stood as a prominent example of brutalist architecture at the University of Otago for more than 50 years.
But the award-winning building is expected to demolished after the university successfully appealed to the Environment Court to overturn heritage protection granted by the Dunedin City Council.
Genevieve Robinson, whose father Lou Robinson worked alongside Mr McCoy on the building as an engineer, has since started a change.org petition to save the lecture theatres.
It has received more than 1500 signatures, Ms Robinson said.
it was not a money-making scheme, but a promotional tool.
One of Ted McCoy’s daughters, a ceramicist, was also making some mugs.
There had been 20 multi-item orders placed over the past week, not just from Dunedin, but from Auckland through to Southland.
