Architecture / March 2010
April 2010 | February 2010-
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New City Architect appointed
- Eye of the Fish
- The folk here at the Fish have been following the reshuffling down at the City Council with interest, as they restructure the Urban Strategy Group yet again and find new positions for expired urban designers and heritage advisors.
- Submitted by tonytw1
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Wind and Hills: Have Traffic Engineers Noticed?
- Architectural Centre Inc
- There’s a lot of information on the design of cycle lanes about - basic principles that most roads in Wellington contravine.
- Submitted by tonytw1
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- transport
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Another restructure - Should we care?
- Architectural Centre Inc
- It’s inevitable, given their political nature, that governments (local and central) are subject to “restructuring” more than most institutions. Anyone involved in architecture and urban design in Wellington will have known, for a little while now, that the urban design bits of our city council have been, and are in the middle of, such [...]
- Submitted by tonytw1
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Cut and Cover
- Architectural Centre Inc
- In a surprise move, the possibility of lowering State Highway One past the National War Memorial was announced on the front page of the weekend paper. At the Architectural Centre, we have been advocating this for a number of years now - we hosted a Symposium on the design of the ‘Memorial Park’ in 2007, and the over-whelming feedback from the group of assembled experts was that the roadway through the park should be lowered.
- Submitted by tonytw1
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- basin-reserve-flyover
- mount-cook
Mount Cook, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Supercilious City: Pods cast
- Eye of the Fish
- It’s times like this that I feel quite sorry for Aucklanders.
- Submitted by tonytw1
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Modernista
- The Wellingtonista
- There's a lot on at the moment for fans of Modern architecture.
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Polychromatic cutie
- Eye of the Fish
- Since the one day symposium last year on the architecture of the 1980s, I’ve been paying more attention to buildings from the 1980s.
- Submitted by tonytw1
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- cuba-street
120 Cuba Street, Wellington
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Variation 11
- Eye of the Fish
- The Wellington City Council must have known it was going to be picking a hard road to go down when it proposed Variation 11, and sure enough, the District Plan change is due to go to appeal at the Environment Court.
- Submitted by tonytw1
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- waterfront
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