Architecture / May 2008
June 2008 | April 2008-
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Supreme and Enduring Awards
- Eye of the Fish
- Two central Wellington buildings have won awards at the NZIA’s national awards ceremony in Auckland, according to the Dompost. Both of them are pretty fantastic, and have won awards before - there’s the new Conservation House by Architecture + (completed only a year or so ago) and then there is Massey House by Cedric Firth and Ernest Plishke, some 50 years before.
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- architecture
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Wellington Hospital - the 800lb gorilla sitting in the corner that no one admits is there
- Eye of the Fish
- For the last two years since the demolition of the antiquated Wellington hospital, a massive construction has been taking place in Newtown, balanced on its giant rubber base-isolated foundations. Yes it’s too late to ignore it anymore - the hospital has reached a state of completion that, while still some way to go, affords us a chance to review the progress so far.
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- architecture
- hospital
- newtown
Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Transport - the route ahead
- Eye of the Fish
- In what seems like a record fast time for Public Consultation, Greater Wellington Regional Council and Transit have turned out results from the public consultation round. As Transit’s “Phase 2 Consultation Report” notes, there was a total of 4673 submissions, including 3750 Option 3 “Green Alliance” postcards and 482 Chamber of Commerce postcards received, and a mere 71 actual written submissions from various bodies and organisations.
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- consultation
- transport
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Overseas Makeover
- Eye of the Fish
- Just quickly for now: the Athfield-designed Overseas Passenger terminal has just been granted resource consent, having satisfied previously held concerns related to construction issues.
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- waterfront
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