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• • State of Emergency

    • 1 Feb 2023
    • Eye of the Fish
    • While it is sad to see the mighty Queen City of Auckland brought to its knees over some rain, it is nice not to have...
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• • The Ardern Years

    • 19 Jan 2023
    • Eye of the Fish
    • Although the news yesterday was full of journos saying that they had not expected Jacinda Ardern to announce her resignation first thing in the morning,...
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• • newtown, new form

    • 18 Jan 2023
    • Thistle Hall Community Venue
    • Newtown, New Form is a collection of student works that propose formal relationships between a place, Newtown, and architecture.
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    Thistle Hall, Cuba Street, Mount Cook, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Designed to dominate

    • 12 Jan 2023
    • Eye of the Fish
    • Today’s post is a special one, contributed by regular reader Starkive By 1972 New Zealanders were questioning the environmental impact of humans and their engineering....
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• • How one couple collected their way to a mid-century styled home

    • 11 Jan 2023
    • Capital Magazine
    • Tandia Molina and Rory Wilson-Cartwright managed to furnish their Brooklyn home with only recycled and refurbished furniture. The post How one couple collected their way to a mid-century styled home appeared first on Capital Magazine.
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    Brooklyn, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Time for a Holiday

    • 19 Dec 2022
    • Eye of the Fish
    • It’s a pretty lonely life here at the Eye of the Fish – tough at the top, as they say. But there are some things...
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• • Dixon Street details

    • 12 Dec 2022
    • Eye of the Fish
    • I’ve been wondering what the insides are like on the Dixon Street flats – never been in behind the doors at the base. Perhaps I’ll try to get in, now that they are moving people out. In the WCC Heritage Archive, there are these plans in a report. The only real drawing there is this one, which gives us the overall picture, but not much of the detail.
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    Dixon Street Flats, 134, Dixon Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6040, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Dixon Street flats

    • 6 Dec 2022
    • Eye of the Fish
    • But the big news this week has to be the somewhat silly news that the Dixon Street flats are being emptied out and there is not a clear story of what happens to the building next. This is not a sob storey like the Gordon Wilson Flats just around the corner – well, at least, it hasn’t started off the same.
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    Dixon Street Flats, 134, Dixon Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6040, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Bright lights of the big city: Thorndon’s Park Lane-esque apartment

    • 2 Dec 2022
    • Capital Magazine
    • Annie Patterson's home offers some of the best views in Thorndon, and they only get better at night. The post Bright lights of the big city: Thorndon’s Park Lane-esque apartment appeared first on Capital Magazine.
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    Thorndon, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Building on top of a sewer tank

    • 18 Nov 2022
    • Eye of the Fish
    • This post was going to be called “New School of Music” but then I thought – no, hold on, this could really cause a stink. What if…? Is it? Was it? No, surely not. But maybe….? Who knows? I’ve just been alerted to the revised scheme for what was at one stage known as the new “School of Music” down by the Michael Fowler Centre – or more accurately, on the site of the MFC carpark and smack bang in the viewpoint of the Amora Hotel. Amazingly, it is a full public notification, and must be costing someone millions to do this – and it closes in just a very few days. Monday?
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    Royal New Zealand Ballet, 115, Wakefield Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • What the modern Wellington whānau looks like

    • 9 Nov 2022
    • Capital Magazine
    • There's no longer a one-size-fits-all family design. Melody Thomas met with three happy whānau's and finds out what family means to them. The post What the modern Wellington whānau looks like appeared first on Capital Magazine.
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    • housing
  
  

• • Making Space

    • 29 Oct 2022
    • Eye of the Fish
    • Elizabeth Cox’s book Making Space – A History of New Zealand Women in Architecture is a treasure trove of information, that I suspect will take...
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• • Tory Party

    • 8 Oct 2022
    • Eye of the Fish
    • Celebrate! Well done Wellington, for electing a fresh, new, young Maori woman Mayor, Tory Whanau – and farewell and thank you to Andy Foster, for...
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• • Increased seismic rankings

    • 4 Oct 2022
    • Eye of the Fish
    • The news was only out yesterday, and briefly mentioned on the news, but I have a horrible feeling that this is going to have a...
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• • Four District Plans and a Funeral

    • 11 Sep 2022
    • Eye of the Fish
    • Today (Monday) is the last day for submissions on the proposed District Plan that will govern the shape of the city for the next 50...
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• • Sir Miles Warren

    • 10 Aug 2022
    • Eye of the Fish
    • Sir Miles Warren died on Tuesday, the last of our knighted architects. He was 93. A prolifically talented architect, he and his practice were without...
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• • Mayor of Gotham City

    • 24 Jul 2022
    • Eye of the Fish
    • Yes folks, the Wellington race for a new Mayor has so far been a bit of a limp affair. So far we appear only to have been attracting the joke candidates, rather than the real main contenders.
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• • LGWM: The Gauntlet

    • 17 Jul 2022
    • Eye of the Fish
    • Hi fishes. Well the LGWM thing was announced supporting the big, most expensive package. As you know I got my issues, discussed in 3-Big-Flaws here. Thought I’d come back and address a few bonus thoughts. First up: The Gauntlet Tunnel. To recap. The selected package aims for trams to Island Bay, frustratingly bypassing Newtown, and a busway to Kilbirnie and Miramar frustratingly attached to a new highway tunnel.
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• • Sir Michael Fowler

    • 14 Jul 2022
    • Eye of the Fish
    • It’s a rare thing for an Architect to become a Mayor – and even rarer for an Architect to become a Knight. We (NZ) have only got a couple of benighted Architects, and there has only ever been one person who has attained both honours. Our only knighted Architect Mayor, Sir Michael Fowler, has sadly just passed away. I was not in Wellington when he was around, and only knew of him in a second-hand manner at the time, so I have asked an esteemed contributor to the site if he would like to say a few words. And lovely words they are.
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• • Feedback time again

    • 11 Jul 2022
    • Eye of the Fish
    • Slowly but surely, at a majestic but glacial pace, Let’s Get Wellington Moving are moving forwards. Well, moving, at least. Maybe it is forwards. Maybe it is sideways. But at least it is not backwards. They’ve released some proposals, and want your / our feedback. And that means it is time for a closer look.
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• • Celebration

    • 4 Jul 2022
    • Eye of the Fish
    • In an announcement released quietly on 4th July, by MBIE, there is some massive cause for celebration. “MBIE advises seismically vulnerable buildings can remain occupied”...
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• • LGWM Decision at last

    • 29 Jun 2022
    • Eye of the Fish
    • Transport Minister Michael Wood blindsided Wellington this morning, with an announcement – and a definite decision – that Wellington is going to get Light Rail...
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• • Council votes today

    • 22 Jun 2022
    • Eye of the Fish
    • Today is the day that the elected Councillors will vote on the Proposed District Plan, which will shape our city for the next thousand years...
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• • Engineers

    • 25 May 2022
    • Eye of the Fish
    • Engineers – it’s time to stand up and be counted. I’m not sure if you lot in the Engineering crowd have noticed lately, but Aotearoa...
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• • On the buses

    • 24 May 2022
    • Eye of the Fish
    • I hesitate to even bother to post this, as the topic seems so small and the problem is so easily solved, but apparently the Busdriver’s Tramways Union has been “in discussions” for over 18 months on this topic, and they still don’t have an answer. Jesus wept. The incompetence of people in charge! It is all very solvable, for the price of less than $20. Present situation – with intolerably reflective white surfaces inside The problem, dear reader, is that the new buses, apparently only the electrically powered new buses, are “dangerous” at night as there are too many reflections, caused by bright lights inside the new buses, and the driver cannot safely see the road.
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• • Portals

    • 16 May 2022
    • Eye of the Fish
    • At the risk of raising the hackles of the designers of the revised Library design, who appear to have positioned an overly-large bedside table next to the beloved crinkly face of the Wellington Library, Te Matapihi, I’d like to explore the concept of “The Portal” a little further. I hope that you don’t mind. I used to call it the Portico, but I’ve been very firmly told that I am mistaken.
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    Wellington Central Library, Civic Square, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Te Matapihi

    • 3 May 2022
    • Eye of the Fish
    • The unveiling of the scheme for the revised central Wellington Library has had an interesting effect. Some people have been shocked at the price, of...
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    Wellington Central Library, Civic Square, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Te Matapihi

    • 1 May 2022
    • Eye of the Fish
    • The unveiling of the scheme for the revised central Wellington Library has had an interesting effect. Some people have been shocked at the price, of...
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• • Wellington Architecture book

    • 25 Apr 2022
    • Eye of the Fish
    • Hello again, and welcome back to the Eye of the Fish. I had quite a bit of work to do, and then I needed a holiday. And what did I do on holiday? Well, I read books, of course! Yes, I am one of those old-school types that still prefers a written book to an online presence, and so I’ve been really pleased recently to see the publication of “Wellington Architecture – a Walking Guide“, a new guide book to the architecture of the capital. It’s great! I love it! And I’ve read every word and looked at every picture, from cover to cover.
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• • Rangihaeata’s big adventure

    • 29 Mar 2022
    • Eye of the Fish
    • So today Transmission Gully was opened – blessed, ribbon cut, journos let through, and a few selected souls have had access. Tomorrow, it opens to...
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    Cannons Creek, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, 5025, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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