Architecture / August 2010
September 2010 | July 2010-
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… quiet Modernism
- Architectural Centre Inc
- He might not be well-known, but if he was it would be for the design of the Freyberg Pool (1963). But Jason Lewis Francis Smith (1917-1964), who was born in Wellington, India, only to end up working in Wellington, New Zealand, was “closely associated with,” as his NZIAJ obitutary so delicately puts it, with several other large and significant Wellington buildings.
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Helene Ritchie writes
- Eye of the Fish
- Johnsonville Neglected by Council.
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Andy Foster writes
- Eye of the Fish
- “There’s been a lot of angst from some people in Johnsonville about Plan Changes 72 and 73.
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Whither Johnsonville
- Eye of the Fish
- There’s some big news from the Council this week, as they debate whether or not to adopt District Plan Change 72 and 73.
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The Syntax of Public Transport
- Eye of the Fish
- Following on from previous discussions on all things transport and urban, I’ve had a play round and tried to depict some of the issues that are striking the city planners and traffic engineers – as well as causing wrangles between Mayor Kerry and Sir Bob Jones.
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Environmental assistance for buildings
- Hutt Chick
- Eco Design advice is now available for those building residential housing in Lower Hutt.
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- hutt-valley
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Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Stop …
- Architectural Centre Inc
- Almost every time I catch a bus the thing that strikes me (other than the almost always lateness of Wellington buses), is how inadequate bus stops are in their design for shelter. It seems that I’m not the only one thinking this way …. With the invention of Adshel and its nasty advertising props parading, inadequately, as bus shelters, is there really any hope that public transport might become the prime mode of moving people around the city?
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The Syntax of Wellington Political Space
- Eye of the Fish
- A quick post today to briefly introduce the subject that seems to have got some people excited: that the WCC has hired Space Syntax to map out conditions in Wellington’s CBD.
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Just Manners …
- Architectural Centre Inc
- Just as Manners Street is being ripped up (with the sort of silliness which means that the sunny side of the street will have the smallest width of footpath) it’s perhaps timely to have a think about the role the road has played in Wellington’s history. Just after the turn of the century (when Perrett’s chemist [...]
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Mayor Kerry speaks
- Eye of the Fish
- In response to a recent posting here on Eye of the Fish, and possibly in response to my slightly provocative comment that …. “It is increasingly difficult to write about design in a city which pays only lip service to it,” I’m pleasantly surprised that Mayor Kerry Prendergast has taken the time to add a comment to the posting. In case people have missed it, and because it is, after all, from the Mayor, I think it deserves a little more prominence and so, here it is:
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