Blogs / June 2013
July 2013 | May 2013-
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Casino Royale (with cheese)
- Eye of the Fish
- I mentioned this project in passing the other day, in a post about the return of the cranes to the city skyline, and thought its worth having a bit of a closer look at it this morning. I’ve been sneaking off into Moore Wilson’s car park to take photos every so often, and so this first photo is from a few months back, when just a skeletal framework is showing. There is, to my eye anyway, something quite beautiful about the clear simplicity of the structure on this building: there’s an insitu concrete wall, and then there’s some steelwork. The columns are relatively small and slender – the work is being done by the concrete wall, and so all these babies have to do is cope with gravity.
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Tory Street, Te Aro, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand/Aotearoa
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New-ish at the Movies: World War Z, After Earth and The Hunt
- The Wellingtonista
- Bloodless zombies would appear to be that latest trend if April’s Warm Bodies and this week’s World War Z are anything to go by.
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It’s Election Season
- The Wellingtonista
- The local body elections are soon upon us Well not super soon but it makes your life easy if you are enrolled to vote by Friday 16 August 2013, that way you get your voting paper in the mail.
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Unreal estate
- Eye of the Fish
- Do Estate agents live on the same planet as us? Have a look at this: Immaculate Investment Tidy Price This is an extremely well presented investment or home for the discerning purchaser, offering two double bedrooms and a location that will see you conveniently placed for all necessities. Close to transport, shopping and the city, [...]
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Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Storm
- Eye of the Fish
- Well, wouldn’t you know it – the storm of the century in Wellington, and I’m not there to see it. From all accounts, it was a real doozy – I’m glad to hear that Wellington has pulled through, even if various seaside properties are minus fences and stretches of roads. Best quote for me came from that bloke in Lyall Bay, who was quoted as saying “you think you’ve got a fence, and then you don’t” which for some reason I found very funny. I was a little distressed to hear of some of my fellow fish found flapping their last across a stretch of highway though.
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Lyall Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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that thing called weather
- The Wellingtonista
- Wellington is having a bit of weather at the moment, sure we get weather 24/7 but this weather, it’s Spectacular Southerly Weather! I’m not sure what would justify all caps weather but here’s a little trip around the south coast to show you how things roll into Wellington when we have Weather if you are looking for updates, or for planning how to be safe in the future here’s some good sites The Wellington Region Emergency Management Office The post that thing called weather appeared first on The Wellingtonista.
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Review: Tu
- The Wellingtonista
- Rimini and Benedict are visiting their uncle Tu in order to find out about their family history.
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Basin Pavilion and Spine Study
- Eye of the Fish
- I did have a small post scheduled for tomorrow morning, but the release of both of these today sort of takes precedence! It never rains, but it pours! Seems kind of appropriate, considering the weather we have been having lately. So: seeing as the Basin Reserve “mitigation” study / blatant bribe to the Reserve Trust has been released, and the Passenger Transport Spine study, and the material for the EPA from NZTA have all been released today (there is no coincidence here, it’s all been carefully planned out), and that’s just al too much for me to post on – I thought I’d just throw it open for you to comment on.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Phantom of the Opera – a Magical Musical
- The Wellingtonista
- There’s nothing like a show, and Phantom of the Opera is certainly one of those.
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$300 million airport extension and Light Rail for free with every second Mt Vic tunnel built…
- Eye of the Fish
- OK – Hear me out here people. There’s been a lot of kerfuffle over a couple of things this week – one is the proposed $43m strengthening of the old Town Hall, and the other is the proposed $300m extension of the airport. First things first : where have those figures come from? Put them [...]
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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New-ish at the Movies: The Great Gatsby, Bekas, Fast & Furious 6 and The Last Sentence
- The Wellingtonista
- For all the digital glitter and anachronistic hip-hoppery that signifies our latest re-entry into Luhrman-land, The Great Gatsby itself takes fundamental inspiration from a black and white classic from 1941.
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A weekend of old things treated in new ways
- The Wellingtonista
- It’s shaping up to be an interesting Wellington weekend – sure when is one not, but mine is looking a little like this.
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Wellington on a Plate is here again, hurrah!
- The Wellingtonista
- Right now we’re knee-deep in delicious wine and food at the Wellington on a Plate launch at Prefab so if all’s going well, this post will go live right after the media embargo ends.
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Cities are, or at least should be, driving globalization
- Jack Yan
- My friend and colleague William Shepherd directed me to a piece at Quartz by Michele Acuto and Parag Khanna, on how cities are driving globalization more than nations—a theme I touched upon on this blog in March 2010.
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Staying a step ahead: the economic benefit of gimmicks
- Jack Yan
- Wifi on the waterfront is now a normal part of Wellington life—but in 2009 some felt it was a gimmick.
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Fairtrade coffee that you make for yourself
- The Wellingtonista
- Fairtrade Fortnight may be over, but that doesn’t mean it’s not something to still think about.
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