Te Rangihīroa College
Te Rangihīroa College Te Whare Whakamaru o Te Rangihīroa, in Dunedin, New Zealand, is the University of Otago's newest Colleges of [the University of Otago|residential college], accommodating 450 students.
History
192 Castle
The college opened as Te Rangi Hīroa College in 2014 in a former hotel, and took its name from Otago's first Māori graduate Te Rangihīroa, also known as Sir Peter Buck.The hotel, LivingSpace, was converted in 2011 from a building built in 1958 for leather tanning company Glendermid. The university bought the hotel for $6.75 million in 2013.
The
original college building has remained in use under the new name 192 Castle College Te Kāreti o Castle. It can accommodate 125 students in ensuite rooms and can provide female-only accommodation and alcohol-free accommodation. The university said 192 Castle College would be run as an annex to nearby Cumberland College until at least 2030, when it would possibly become a part of the health and hospital precinct.
Relocation
In 2019, Te Rangi Hīroa College's site was selected to provide land for Dunedin's new hospital. A new college was proposed, at a cost of $90 million.A site was chosen in Albany St, North Dunedin, which had been the university's music studio, built in 1967 as a radio studio for the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation.
Te Rangihīroa College reopened in its new purpose-built building in 2024. The move prompted a slight correction to the college's name to the style preferred by Te Rangihīroa, at the request of his iwi descendants, Ngāti Mutunga.