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• • Haining Street

    • 3 Aug 2021
    • Eye of the Fish
    • A proposal has come into Council for a revision, of a revision, of a revision of a building that was never very good in the first place. The “Due Pensione” and “Quattro on Haining” of about 10 years ago has been revisited once more – with yet another change of architects. Is this the third architect on this project, or the fourth?
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    Haining Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6040, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Station to Station

    • 23 Jul 2021
    • Eye of the Fish
    • Wellington’s main (only?) central Railway Station has been getting a lot of press recently, mostly over the intransigence of the Heritage NZ lobby who are, to be honest, being silly over the heritage of this building. They’ve only just today approved the installation of a pedestrian ramp out the front doors – the disabled have been forced to use the side door for the last several decades. They’re sitting on the approval of installation of the Snapper ticketing terminals because they don’t like the colour. KiwiRail: do it anyway. It needs to be a living piece of heritage, adapting and changing to the times – not preserved in aspic (whatever aspic is).
    • Accepted from Eye of the Fish feed 1 week ago by tonytw1
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    • trains
  
  

• • Cobham Drive

    • 1 Jul 2021
    • Eye of the Fish
    • You may already be aware of this world-breaking event, but in case you are not, here’s the news: LGWM have actually made a decision! Of course, now having made a decision, they now want to ask us our opinion on their momentous decision. So, this post, the topic of discussion is all about the proposed Cobham Drive crossing. Seeing as their method of discussion is all behind closed doors (they are calling for submissions by the end of July), I though that it might be more useful to have some discussion in public, and the Eye of the Fish seems to be a good place to discuss that.
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    • cobham-drive-bridge

    Cobham Drive, Kilbirnie, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Build a Bridge over Cobham Drive

    • 1 Jul 2021
    • Eye of the Fish
    • OK: so my last post was trying to be all neutral, but I can’t take it any longer.
    • Accepted from Eye of the Fish feed 1 week ago by tonytw1
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    • transport
    • cobham-drive-bridge

    Cobham Drive, Kilbirnie, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Appropriate height limits

    • 27 Jun 2021
    • Eye of the Fish
    • While it was vaguely entertaining / terrifying / gratifying / intimidating to listen to some of the 10-hour debate on the Spatial Plan the other day (pick your own adjective according to your political persuasions), what became very clear is that NO ONE – not the Mayor, not the Council Officers, Not Liam Hodgetts the City Planner, and certainly not the rabid band of Councillors – have any idea about height limits that is bounded by any semblance of the actual factual truthiness of the situation.
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• • Growth for Growth’s Sake

    • 24 Jun 2021
    • Eye of the Fish
    • “Art for Art’s sake – Money for God’s sake”. Or as we have it now, Growth for Growth’s sake. We now have a Council that has passed the Spatial Plan, in a decision that some have described being a battle over young vs old. Up to 80,000 more people will be able to live in our city, in a gradual process over the next 30+ years.
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• • How High is Too High?

    • 20 Jun 2021
    • Eye of the Fish
    • This Thursday is a big day for Wellington – the Council will vote on the Draft Spatial Plan and will decide whether or not to accept its recommendations.
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• • Pedestrianisation

    • 17 Jun 2021
    • Eye of the Fish
    • The Golden Mile is going to be pedestrianised – and that is great news. Great news to me, great news for Wellingtonians, great news for visitors to our city if they ever return, but apparently some of the retailers along Lambton Quay feel that this is not great news. I’m not sure why – nobody in their right mind tries to drive to their favourite retailer in Wellington at the moment, so I’m not sure why they would in the future.
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    Lambton Quay, Wellington Central, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 601, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Shaky ground

    • 14 Jun 2021
    • Eye of the Fish
    • “Standing on shaky ground, ever since you put me down…” sang the Temptations and it resonates deeply with people of Wellington. We all know that our isles are shaky, and our city has the potential to be shaky in the extreme, but what we perhaps don’t know is just how shaky our particular patch of dirt is beneath our own two feet. I’ve been doing a bit more looking into this – starting with this post we blogged on Tsunami and then I found this other study, on Wellington’s rocky substrate. It’s quite an eye-opener.
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• • Resene Film Fest 2021

    • 12 May 2021
    • Eye of the Fish
    • Seems to me that we need an online Film Festival program, readily available to view. So here one is:There are a few interesting films coming up. Time to buy your tickets now. Here’s how:
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• • Apartment hell

    • 14 Apr 2021
    • Eye of the Fish
    • Last night, on Prime TV, there was a programme on living in apartments in NZ.
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• • St Gerard

    • 5 Apr 2021
    • Eye of the Fish
    • Monasteries have always been freeloaders on society – for the last 2000 years or more.
    • Accepted from Eye of the Fish feed 3 months ago by tonytw1
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    • mountvictoria
  
  

• • Architect’s challenge: what is structure?

    • 4 Apr 2021
    • Capital Magazine
    • Architect Katherine Skipper is the Principal at Warren and Mahoney’s Wellington studio.
    • Accepted from Capital Magazine 3 months ago by tonytw1
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• • Government puts Wellington light rail back on track

    • 31 Mar 2021
    • Eye of the Fish
    • The Government is getting light rail back on track by involving Wellingtonians in a six-month process to come up with a city-shaping project.
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• • The Art of the Architect

    • 23 Mar 2021
    • Thistle Hall Community Venue
    • Iconic Wellington Architect Roger Walker is well known for his quirky design and love of colour. Now, after finding himself with a bit of spare time and nowhere to go during the COVID 19 lockdowns, he has turned his distinctive creative style to joyful and colourful creations on canvas.
    • Accepted from Thistle Hall current exhibition 4 months ago by feedreader
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    • architecture

    Thistle Hall gallery space, Cuba Street, Mount Cook, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • New Housing policy

    • 23 Mar 2021
    • Eye of the Fish
    • Fascinating to see the hubbub over the announcements today from Labour of a revised policy over housing sales.
    • Accepted from Eye of the Fish feed 4 months ago by tonytw1
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• • Tsunami

    • 5 Mar 2021
    • Eye of the Fish
    • But it did get me thinking: what if a big one did hit Wellington, and the ground got tsunamied and turned all liquefactiony ? I wondered to myself: what would happen to the flat parts of the city where we famously Live, Work and Play
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• • Listing buildings

    • 25 Feb 2021
    • Eye of the Fish
    • Not sure if you realise this yet, but the proverbial cat has just been thrown amongst the proverbial pigeons. Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga (what used to be called the Historic Places Trust) has just announced three new grade 1 heritage listings in Wellington: Trades Hall, Wellington Central Library, and a combined Gordon Wilson and McLean flats as well.
    • Accepted from Eye of the Fish feed 5 months ago by tonytw1
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    • heritagebuildings
  
  

• • Ranting

    • 24 Feb 2021
    • Eye of the Fish
    • Suddenly out of nowhere, a storm brews up.
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• • Los Angeles – Laurel and Hardy Steps

    • 17 Feb 2021
    • Wellington Steps
    •   Photo source: http://wikimapia.
    • Accepted from Wellington Steps 5 months ago by feedreader
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• • Lyall Bay

    • 15 Feb 2021
    • Wellington Steps
    • Accepted from Wellington Steps 5 months ago by feedreader
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• • LGWM spanked

    • 13 Feb 2021
    • Eye of the Fish
    • And Spanked is putting it mildly.
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• • Art Vandelay

    • 4 Feb 2021
    • Eye of the Fish
    • Today, a guest post from Art Vandelay, with a potential solution for the route of a Light Rail system through Wellington.Your comments and feedback, welcome below…
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• • Warwick Wilton Churchill Steps

    • 8 Jan 2021
    • Wellington Steps
    • FIND THESE STEPS –  From Warwick at   
    • Accepted from Wellington Steps 6 months ago by feedreader
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• • 2021 – the year ahead

    • 31 Dec 2020
    • Eye of the Fish
    • Phew – thank goodness that 2020 is over.
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• • Surrey Street Steps

    • 22 Dec 2020
    • Wellington Steps
    • FIND THESE STEPS – From 10 Surrey to 28 Worcester Street at the top. A very subtle entry way and you could easily miss this from Surrey. Follow along this path. The view from the top is spectacular. It’s December when I took these shots and some flowers along the way. At the top – beside St Thomas More church.  
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• • Swan Lane and Garrett Street

    • 8 Dec 2020
    • Eye of the Fish
    • A missive has arrived from Wellington City Council, outlining that they have a plan for some changes around Garrett St (just off Cuba St) and Swan Lane (opposite Garrett St).
    • Accepted from Eye of the Fish feed 7 months ago by tonytw1
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    • cubastreet
    • wcc
  
  

• • Finding Nemo

    • 6 Dec 2020
    • Eye of the Fish
    • Hi, I’m Nemo. Captain Nemo to you. I’ve written on this blog a couple of times before but the recent demise of Leviathan makes me think that we shouldn’t just let it all go to waste. I’ve been reading Eye of the Fish for years and am going to give it a try to keep it going, but under new management. It seems that Wellington really needs a good urban design blog. I was going to start up my own blog, but that is a hard thing to do: to get the footsteps of passers by and the eyeballs of the idle clickers. It seems that this blog may still have some readers returning here in the hope of finding Levi still afloat, but that seems a forlorn hope so far. So: finding Nemo it is instead.
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• • Wilton

    • 19 Nov 2020
    • Wellington Steps
    • Accepted from Wellington Steps 8 months ago by feedreader
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• • Wilton

    • 19 Nov 2020
    • Wellington Steps
    • Accepted from Wellington Steps 8 months ago by feedreader
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