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Is a Prime Minster Entitled to a Nice House?
- Eye of the Fish
- There’s been a lot about this house in the news recently – both the paper kind of news, and the TV kind of news. May as well get my news from proper news sources while they exist, seeing as it sounds like soon nothing is going to exist in the news world. What will we do when 3News and OneNews are ditched, and Stuff has gone bust again? Its hard enough to even buy a paper these days, as increasingly nowhere sells them. What do we do in the future – just make up our own news as we go? Seems to be working fine for some people! Anyway, THIS is the house in question:
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Premier House, 260, Tinakori Road, Paekākā, Thorndon, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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The Berhampore home with a Swiss twist
- Capital Magazine
- From native wood floorboards to hidden craftsmanship, Orane and Olivier got lucky when they renovated their weatherboard cottage. We take a look around. The post The Berhampore home with a Swiss twist appeared first on Capital Magazine.
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Berhampore, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6242, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Toomath’s Building
- Eye of the Fish
- Farewell to the Toomath’s Buildings then. Designed by architect William Crichton, completed by 1901. Survived years of neglect – did not survive a group of...
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Toomath’s Buildings, Ghuznee Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6040, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Seeing the potential in a damp house with a wonky floor
- Capital Magazine
- Calling this house a "doer-upper" is a bit of an understatement. Find out how one couple took on this intense DIY project and came out the other side. The post Seeing the potential in a damp house with a wonky floor appeared first on Capital Magazine.
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Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Dense Hutt
- Eye of the Fish
- In all the fun and fuss over things like the Election, the country’s love affair / hatred of Winston (there is something very 1984 about Winston being the BiG Brother watching over us / controlling our every move), we (well, me) may have taken our eye off the ball. Well, not the ball, but the Hutt. It seems that the Hutt has fully adopted the MDRS changes proposed by the Government, to the extent that all the following things, which were proposed, have now been implemented, and are now operative. This includes some revisions to the Proposed District Plan, and there are many pages that look like this (only usually more words and less diagrams).
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Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Town Hall rebuild costs go sky high
- Eye of the Fish
- As far as cost blowouts go, this is a big one, and heads should roll. We here at the Fish have written about the old...
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Wellington Town Hall, 109, Wakefield Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Shells, not Shelly!
- Eye of the Fish
- Talk about a NewsFlash ! Wow – the Shelly Bay development, that no-one seemed to like or want, has just been cancelled. Not postponed, or...
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Shelly Bay, Shelly Bay Road, Maupuia, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Nursery Rhymes
- Capital Magazine
- New parents Nicola and Reuben have used their combined knowledge of art and design to style their Miramar home, and give their spare room a dream jungle makeover. The post Nursery Rhymes appeared first on Capital Magazine.
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Miramar, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Brooklyn Hill cycleway
- Eye of the Fish
- I’m all in favour of cycleways – they are a great addition to the city, and may even allow me one day to ride a...
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Brooklyn Road, Fitchettown, Mount Cook, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Accommodation providers
- Eye of the Fish
- A timely and interesting post from the WCC, showing a list of relevant accommodation providers, that may or may not have issues similar to the Loafer’s Lodge, which, as we all know, tragically burnt down and killed people. No one wants a repeat of that sordid mess, and so the great thing is that the WCC are being pro-active and trying to get ahead of the game here. Here’s a link to Scoop’s post – curiously I have not seen it on Stuff Post yet.
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Loafers Lodge, 160, Adelaide Road, Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Arson or Accident?
- Eye of the Fish
- There’s a depressing familiarity with the news of the destruction by fire of the sawtooth roofed buildings at Shelly Bay. It is the classic “accident”...
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Shelly Bay, Shelly Bay Road, Maupuia, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Loafer’s Lodge fire
- Eye of the Fish
- It is a pretty sad day to be writing – and we all know what about. Just over 36 hours ago, a building in Newtown...
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Loafers Lodge, 160, Adelaide Road, Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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The Buckley Road Project: Six friends’ home ownership solution
- Capital Magazine
- Tired of living in cold, damp houses six friends decided to club their resources together and create a different way of living. The post The Buckley Road Project: Six friends’ home ownership solution appeared first on Capital Magazine.
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Buckley Road, Southgate, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6023, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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St Gerard’s new owners
- Eye of the Fish
- Great news this week that at long last the venerable St Gerard’s monastery has been sold. Long seen as one of the true icons of Wellington architecture and the focus of many tourist snaps, St Gerard’s church was started first way back in 1908 by the catholic Redemptorists (Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer) to a design by John Swan and then added to in 1932 by an almost twin structure of monastery, poised on the flanks of Mount Victoria. It is a symbiotic pairing of the architecture of two of New Zealand’s greatest ecclesiastical architects – both John Swan and Frederick de Jersey Clere. Swan and Clere worked together, but it is rare to see their work side by side like this. More recently it has been owned by the Institute for World Evangelisation – the ICPE Mission.
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St Gerard's monastery, Hawker Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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newtown, new form
- Thistle Hall Community Venue
- Newtown, New Form is a collection of student works that propose formal relationships between a place, Newtown, and architecture.
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Thistle Hall, Cuba Street, Mount Cook, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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How one couple collected their way to a mid-century styled home
- Capital Magazine
- Tandia Molina and Rory Wilson-Cartwright managed to furnish their Brooklyn home with only recycled and refurbished furniture. The post How one couple collected their way to a mid-century styled home appeared first on Capital Magazine.
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Brooklyn, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Dixon Street details
- Eye of the Fish
- I’ve been wondering what the insides are like on the Dixon Street flats – never been in behind the doors at the base. Perhaps I’ll try to get in, now that they are moving people out. In the WCC Heritage Archive, there are these plans in a report. The only real drawing there is this one, which gives us the overall picture, but not much of the detail.
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Dixon Street Flats, 134, Dixon Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6040, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Dixon Street flats
- Eye of the Fish
- But the big news this week has to be the somewhat silly news that the Dixon Street flats are being emptied out and there is not a clear story of what happens to the building next. This is not a sob storey like the Gordon Wilson Flats just around the corner – well, at least, it hasn’t started off the same.
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Dixon Street Flats, 134, Dixon Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6040, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Bright lights of the big city: Thorndon’s Park Lane-esque apartment
- Capital Magazine
- Annie Patterson's home offers some of the best views in Thorndon, and they only get better at night. The post Bright lights of the big city: Thorndon’s Park Lane-esque apartment appeared first on Capital Magazine.
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Thorndon, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Building on top of a sewer tank
- Eye of the Fish
- This post was going to be called “New School of Music” but then I thought – no, hold on, this could really cause a stink. What if…? Is it? Was it? No, surely not. But maybe….? Who knows? I’ve just been alerted to the revised scheme for what was at one stage known as the new “School of Music” down by the Michael Fowler Centre – or more accurately, on the site of the MFC carpark and smack bang in the viewpoint of the Amora Hotel. Amazingly, it is a full public notification, and must be costing someone millions to do this – and it closes in just a very few days. Monday?
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Royal New Zealand Ballet, 115, Wakefield Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Portals
- Eye of the Fish
- At the risk of raising the hackles of the designers of the revised Library design, who appear to have positioned an overly-large bedside table next to the beloved crinkly face of the Wellington Library, Te Matapihi, I’d like to explore the concept of “The Portal” a little further. I hope that you don’t mind. I used to call it the Portico, but I’ve been very firmly told that I am mistaken.
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Wellington Central Library, Civic Square, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Te Matapihi
- Eye of the Fish
- The unveiling of the scheme for the revised central Wellington Library has had an interesting effect. Some people have been shocked at the price, of...
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Wellington Central Library, Civic Square, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Rangihaeata’s big adventure
- Eye of the Fish
- So today Transmission Gully was opened – blessed, ribbon cut, journos let through, and a few selected souls have had access. Tomorrow, it opens to...
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Cannons Creek, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, 5025, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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A Celebration of Wellington Architecture
- Thistle Hall Community Venue
- New Zealand architecture has been at the center of my creative practice for the past year. The kaupapa behind this exhibition is to highlight the small and beautiful features our buildings have to offer, some of which are situated a stone’s throw away from Thistle Hall Gallery.
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Thistle Hall, Cuba Street, Mount Cook, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Paddington
- Eye of the Fish
- MR AND MRS Brown first met Paddington on a housing development platform. In fact, that was how he came to have such an unusual name for a...
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The Paddington, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Ika Rere
- Eye of the Fish
- It’s wonderful to see that the dreams of East by West Ferries have come true, with the launching of the Ika Rere, the brand new electric ferry that will ply its way from Wellington to Eastbourne and back. It is a striking design, with the twin prows of the catamaran almost vertical for chopping through the waves of the harbour, and a vibrant acqua / turquoise colour scheme all over, tying in with the branding of Meridian, electric company / weather forecast sponsor.
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Zealandia, Lake Road, Highbury, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Density in Island Bay
- Eye of the Fish
- Having taken the chance to venture south of the city, to deepest darkest Island Bay, home of the Empire, the old Terminus, the Parade, and...
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Island Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Three
- Eye of the Fish
- So the Bill of Three Houses, Three Storeys, has passed. Parliament gave it the most unsexy title of all: Resource Management (Enabling Housing Supply and Other Matters) Amendment Bill. But I think the title of Three 3 Bill would have been more interesting. Certainly, the aftermath of this extraordinarily rushed legislation will be interesting. I
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Upper Hutt, Upper Hutt City, Wellington, 5218, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Four upcoming submittals
- Eye of the Fish
- We are being asked to submit comments on four completely separate but highly important matters at the same time. If you thought that the run up to Christmas was getting tight for time this year, then get ready for it to be even more tight in terms of your time. Firstly, one you may not have been aware of: the proposal by KiwiRail and InterIslander to build new terminus stations in both Picton and Wellington, in order to tie in with the arrival of two new ferries due here in three years time. You can find out more about this proposal here. I’m not sure when they want the feedback by, but I’m sure that they want some feedback!
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Kaiwharawhara Point, Kaiwharawhara, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6035, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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The house that grew
- Capital Magazine
- Visit the iconic hilltop home that consumed architect Ian AthfieldThe post The house that grew appeared first on Capital Magazine.
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Amritsar Street, Khandallah, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6035, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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