Architecture / September 2009
October 2009 | August 2009-
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All Mall
- Eye of the Fish
- So: the verdict is back, and the commissioners of the Council have agreed to the building of a new Mall in Johnsonville.
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Dotty
- Eye of the Fish
- After what seems like an absolute age, this weekend we’ll have the City Gallery open once more.
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Capital Precinct
- Architectural Centre Inc
- We’re pleased to note that Her Worship the Mayor Kerry Prendergast, and the Prime Minister, the Right Honourable John Key, have been getting together to launch “Our Extraordinary Democracy – The Capital City Initiative“. It seems that it is not often that architecture, design, and especially urban design get discussed at such high level.
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Queens Wharf
- Architectural Centre Inc
- After waiting many years, Wellington Waterfront finally held the long awaited Competition for the Outer Tee. We’ve been holding our breath, waiting to hear what the results of the competition were. How many entries? Any good ideas? Was there an outright winner? Could the judges make up their minds? But since the entry period closed, nothing but Silence.
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- architecture
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Shared Pictures; Shared Spaces
- Eye of the Fish
- The proposed Manners Mall makeover is relatively uninteresting, as was expected. However, given that this design is clearly indicating that the Mall become a ’shared street’, it raises concerns about how the interaction between buses and pedestrians will play out.
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The Elephant in the Room
- Architectural Centre Inc
- Phil Jones‘ talk on last Wednesday (9 Sept 09) presented the idea of shared spaces (also known as naked streets) in the context of the council’s proposal to convert lower Cuba St into a shared space. This is in compensation for depriving pedestrians of Manners Mall - which is intended to become a giant bus lane in illustration of the transport evolutionary pecking order cars: then buses: then pedestrians.
- Submitted by tonytw1
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Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Wednesday 16th September - Architecture Day
- Architectural Centre Inc
- We haven’t got a whole week of events for you this year, but we do have 3 events all on one day, so we reckon that’ll do just as well. All events will be held in Rutherford House in the Pipitea campus - starting at 4.00pm with Adrian Leaman, continuing at 5.30 with McBride Charles Ryan, and then finishing up at 6.30 pm with Japanese superstar architect cardboad guru Shigeru Ban.
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Harbour Capital
- Eye of the Fish
- The joy and sense of fun that is the Wellington Waterfront never ceases to amaze me. Today in the local paper, an expose is made on a number of new / newly released projects for the waterfront, of which I just can’t ignore.
- Submitted by tonytw1
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