the site that the "lyttelton times" had occupied in gloucester street with an agency since the 1850s extended through to cathedral square. a two-storey wooden building was erected on the cathedral square frontage when the headquarters moved from lyttelton. further growth necessitated bigger premises, and what is now known as the star building was built on the gloucester street frontage in 1884. growth continued, and sidney and alfred luttrell were commissioned in 1902 to design a new building for the cathedral square frontage.