Architecture / April 2007
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In Memoriam
- WellUrban
- I can finally mention what I've known about unofficially for a while: it's been publicly announced that New Zealand Memorial Park will be built in front of the old Museum on Buckle St. It's not quite what I originally speculated about when demolition of the service station first started, since it will be where Buckle St is now rather than on the north side of it, and there's an additional nice touch in that the "Greening the Quays" project will be extended up Taranaki St to the park.
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- bypass
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Playing favourites #1: Wellington City Library
- WellUrban
- This may be the highest achievement of Athfield's "Mies meets GaudÃ" phase, though it's perhaps more Foster than Mies (a sinuous curtain wall straight out of Ipswich), and more Rossi than Gaudà (all those rag-rolled walls, small square windows and heavy Bolognese arcades).
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- libraries
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Playing favourites #2: Racing Conference building
- WellUrban
- This one's bound to be uncontroversial: surely everyone loves the Racing Conference building, even if they just know it as "that building with the Lido in it and the curvy verandah".
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Playing favourites #8: Freyberg Pool
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- There's been some debate over on the Architectural Centre blog about whether or not the Freyberg Pool belongs among Wellington's ten best buildings, but for me, there's never been any doubt.
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- architecture
- swimming
- waterfront
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