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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)
  
  

• • Gordon Wilson Flats Turn Ten

    • 6 Mar 2022
    • Salient
    • The year 2022 marks ten years of the infamous Gordon Wilson flats sitting empty at 320 The Terrace.
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    Gordon Wilson Flats Structural Exclusion Area, The Terrace, Aro Valley, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6040, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Inevitable

    • 2 Mar 2022
    • Eye of the Fish
    • So…. that was interesting. No real surprise there, that it would end in violence, given the people involved and the poor attitudes towards common sense...
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• • If you want to Fight for Freedom, go to Ukraine

    • 27 Feb 2022
    • Eye of the Fish
    • The numpty-heads down at Parliament continue to protest and cause disruption, crying out for Freedom, when they honestly do not know what real “fighting for...
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• • A Celebration of Wellington Architecture

    • 21 Feb 2022
    • Thistle Hall Community Venue
    • New Zealand architecture has been at the center of my creative practice for the past year. The kaupapa behind this exhibition is to highlight the small and beautiful features our buildings have to offer, some of which are situated a stone’s throw away from Thistle Hall Gallery. 
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    Thistle Hall, Cuba Street, Mount Cook, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Scaffold city

    • 17 Feb 2022
    • Eye of the Fish
    • Just a quick question to the architectural / urban world out there – what the heck is happening to this building? I thought it was...
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• • Drongos Go Home!

    • 13 Feb 2022
    • Eye of the Fish
    • Urban protest has a long history in New Zealand and especially in Wellington, being the capital and all that. I’ve been on a few myself...
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• • Paddington

    • 6 Feb 2022
    • Eye of the Fish
    • MR AND MRS Brown first met Paddington on a housing development platform. In fact, that was how he came to have such an unusual name for a...
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    The Paddington, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Ika Rere

    • 16 Jan 2022
    • Eye of the Fish
    • It’s wonderful to see that the dreams of East by West Ferries have come true, with the launching of the Ika Rere, the brand new electric ferry that will ply its way from Wellington to Eastbourne and back. It is a striking design, with the twin prows of the catamaran almost vertical for chopping through the waves of the harbour, and a vibrant acqua / turquoise colour scheme all over, tying in with the branding of Meridian, electric company / weather forecast sponsor.
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    Zealandia, Lake Road, Highbury, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Zzzzzz

    • 1 Jan 2022
    • Eye of the Fish
    • I can’t believe how nice this weather is right now – just beautiful, as if to make up for the rubbish weather we had immediately...
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• • Density in Island Bay

    • 19 Dec 2021
    • Eye of the Fish
    • Having taken the chance to venture south of the city, to deepest darkest Island Bay, home of the Empire, the old Terminus, the Parade, and...
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    Island Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Three

    • 14 Dec 2021
    • Eye of the Fish
    • So the Bill of Three Houses, Three Storeys, has passed. Parliament gave it the most unsexy title of all: Resource Management (Enabling Housing Supply and Other Matters) Amendment Bill. But I think the title of Three 3 Bill would have been more interesting. Certainly, the aftermath of this extraordinarily rushed legislation will be interesting. I
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    Upper Hutt, Upper Hutt City, Wellington, 5218, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • 42m is TOO Tall

    • 9 Dec 2021
    • Eye of the Fish
    • While there is a need for good commentary on the Draft District Plan, expecting us ordinary citizens to go about our everyday jobs and still have the coherence to comment authoritatively on several hundred pages of new District Plan is asking a little too much of this particular Fish and their day job. So unless I get particularly creative and energetic over the next weekend, I think that on the whole the DP is going to go uncommented on. With the exception of just one area: Height.
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• • Light Rail and Fresh Tunnels

    • 29 Nov 2021
    • Eye of the Fish
    • Let’s not pussyfoot around – Wellington needs a Rapid Transit system and that simply cannot be more buses. And it needs to be Rapid (like the name suggests) so it needs some new direct routes – that means new tunnels. Yes, plural: Tunnels.
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• • Cycling Network

    • 28 Nov 2021
    • Eye of the Fish
    • What is the Cycling network based upon? It’s a bit of a quandary to me, because while in the online discussion form the WCC the other day, the designers were claiming that they had been studying the situation for years, looking which areas to link to which other areas, and this was the first time that they had gone to the step of actually showing Roads linking them.
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• • Four upcoming submittals

    • 27 Nov 2021
    • Eye of the Fish
    • We are being asked to submit comments on four completely separate but highly important matters at the same time. If you thought that the run up to Christmas was getting tight for time this year, then get ready for it to be even more tight in terms of your time. Firstly, one you may not have been aware of: the proposal by KiwiRail and InterIslander to build new terminus stations in both Picton and Wellington, in order to tie in with the arrival of two new ferries due here in three years time. You can find out more about this proposal here. I’m not sure when they want the feedback by, but I’m sure that they want some feedback!
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    Kaiwharawhara Point, Kaiwharawhara, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6035, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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