Michael Fowler Centre is the city’s main auditorium and convention center. It is also an outstanding concert hall plus home base to the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. NZSO was founded in 1946 and became a crown entity of the country’s government in 2004. This facility next to Civic Square was named after Sir Michael Fowler. He was an architect but also the Mayor of Wellington from 1974 until retiring in 1983, the year Michael Fowler Centre opened.
