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- Yellow stickered for its centenary
  - 18 Oct 2024
  - Wellington Scoop
  - The Wellington City Council is celebrating the centenary of the Embassy Theatre in Courtenay Place, at the same time as it is categorising the heritage cinema as “earthquake prone,” with yellow stickers which carry a confusion of conflicting messages.
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- Common Ground?
  - 23 Sep 2024
  - Thistle Hall Community Venue
  - This event is part of the Aotearoa Festival of Architecture, by Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects. When Kaikoura shook, photographer Andy Spain got Wellington's list of earthquake prone buildings and started photographing them. The idea of fixing time became appealing, as many of the buildings were demolished. When asked to exhibit them together however, Andy began to ask what these remnants meant. He visited the petals saved from Athfield's church of First Church of Christ Scientist and saw their fragility. He talked to architects about remedial work which never saw the light of day. What were the consequences of all these traces existing in a time when the fates of many Wellington buildings are so contested? Where heritage competes with social housing, which competes with sustainable reuse, and so on. So, this exhibition is not about the photographs that have been taken, or the drawings drawn, or the artworks saved. It is about how we decide to use these remnants, and what stories we want them to tell.
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- Earthquake-prone Buildings - Terms of Reference for the review
  - 19 Jun 2024
  - Inner-City Wellington
  - Source: Scoop Parliament Hon Chris Penk Minister for Building and Construction Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk has announced that the review into better managing the risks of earthquake-prone buildings has commenced.
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- Welcome Home!
  - 8 Jun 2024
  - Metropolitan Cathedral of the Sacred Heart
  - Did you feel the space as you came through the foyer? Did you look up as you entered the nave and see the beautiful ceiling, now white and duck-egg blue? […]
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- Destroying our past
  - 15 Apr 2024
  - Wellington Scoop
  - Heritage is contested by many and loved by others. The Mayor and Councillor McNulty want it as just a political whim. They’ve written a letter to RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop asking for the power to remove heritage buildings from district plan rules by a simple Council majority vote. The letter says this request is “on behalf of the Wellington City Council,” though it was never discussed by councillors.
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- Restoring Wellington’s vital organ
  - 12 Mar 2024
  - Wellington City Council
  - The year was 1906. The most intricate technologies of the time were pipe organs, steam engines, and clocks. Yet, 15 years before we had radio in New Zealand, Wellington had music from the Town Hall organ.
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- Watch the Livestream recording of the recent ‘Living with Earthquake Risk - have we got it right’ public meeting
  - 26 Feb 2024
  - Inner-City Wellington
  - On Thursday 22 February 2024 at St Peter’s Church on Willis Street the folks from Live Wellington held a public meeting to discuss the hot topics of earthquake-prone buildings and affordable insurance for apartment buildings.
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- Ensuring new buildings can withstand liquefaction effects
  - 24 Jan 2024
  - Hutt City Council
  - Changes to Acceptable Solution B1/AS1, preventing it from being used on liquefaction-prone ground, come into effect on 29 November 2021.
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- Earthquake prone notice lifted for Heretaunga Block at Hutt Hospital
  - 12 Dec 2023
  - Hutt City Council
  - Hutt City Council has determined that the Heretaunga Block at Hutt Hospital is no longer earthquake-prone under section 133AK of the Building Act 2004.
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- Te Pae Tiaki Wellington ED, Wellington Regional Hospital – earthquake strengthening update
  - 28 Nov 2023
  - Capital & Coast District Health Board
  - Update from Te Whatu Ora Capital, Coast & Hutt Valley Acting Group Director Operations Hospital & Specialist Services Jamie Duncan
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- Te Pae Tiaki Wellington ED, Wellington Regional Hospital – earthquake strengthening update
  - 28 Nov 2023
  - Hutt Valley District Health Board
  - Update from Te Whatu Ora Capital, Coast & Hutt Valley Acting Group Director Operations Hospital & Specialist Services Jamie Duncan
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- Town Hall project cost increase approved
  - 25 Oct 2023
  - Wellington City Council
  - Mayor Tory Whanau and Wellington City Councillors have today agreed to increase the Town Hall strengthening and development budget by between $70 million and $147 million.
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- More Town Hall
  - 24 Oct 2023
  - Eye of the Fish
  - Thanks to Greenwelly for alerting me to the substantial report on the WCC website, which is both exhausting, and fascinating. There will be a book...
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- Town Hall rebuild costs go sky high
  - 3 Oct 2023
  - 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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- Town Hall redevelopment project - costs projected to increase further
  - 2 Oct 2023
  - Wellington City Council
  - The cost to Wellington City Council for the strengthening and redevelopment of the Town Hall – one of the most complex construction projects in Aotearoa – is projected to increase by between $70 million and $147 million from its current completion cost of $182.4 million. 
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- Update on ICW's complaint to The Ombudsman
  - 24 Sep 2023
  - Inner-City Wellington
  - Complaint to the Ombudsman The complaint was finally submitted on 9 September 2023, nearly a year after we started drafting in earnest, and 4.
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- Fit for the future: Sheet piling at the Town Hall
  - 28 Aug 2023
  - Wellington City Council
  - Earthquake strengthening is a must-have for buildings in Wellington, a city that sits directly on a fault line. Wellington’s newest builds, such as Tākina, Wellington convention and exhibition centre, are built with earthquake durability in the forefront of their design. But how do we approach earthquake strengthening on historic and heritage buildings so that they are fit for future use?
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- Michael Fowler Centre and Opera House to be issued with Earthquake-Prone Building notices
  - 17 Aug 2023
  - Wellington City Council
  - Michael Fowler Centre and The Opera House will receive Earthquake-Prone Building (EPB) notices today.
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- Town Hall meeting at Enjoy
  - 26 Jun 2023
  - Wellington Scoop
  - For a few hours on Saturday, the Enjoy contemporary artspace in Cuba Street’s Left Bank felt like the venue of a town hall meeting. People gathered to discuss and celebrate the recent publication of Ko Te Reo ō Ngā Tāngata / The People’s Voice, a citizens’ newspaper with creative writing, columns, stories, photography, artwork, and even crosswords. Many of the contributors, almost all tenants of City Housing, were present, as were public art advocates Mark Amery and David Cook, and Enjoy hosts Claire Harris and Sam Kirk.
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- Do you have a heritage building? There's a new guide
  - 4 May 2023
  - Inner-City Wellington
  - From WCC We've produced a new guide to support heritage building owners who need to strengthen their properties against earthquakes.
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- Take a look inside Wellington’s first base-isolated apartment building
  - 4 May 2023
  - Capital Magazine
  - We take a look around the recently completed Victoria Lane Apartments. The post Take a look inside Wellington’s first base-isolated apartment building appeared first on Capital Magazine.
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- Behind the hoarding: Town Hall site visit
  - 10 Apr 2023
  - Wellington City Council
  - There’s a lot to love about the Wellington Town Hall. It’s reputed to have one of the best acoustic chambers in the world, it’s lovely to look at, and it has a history full of memorable stories, including the time the ceiling, dead pigeons and their nests collapsed onto an international act during their concert.
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- Bond Store to be issued with Earthquake-Prone Building notice
  - 28 Feb 2023
  - Wellington City Council
  - The Bond Store building, home to Wellington Museum, will receive an Earthquake-Prone Building (EPB) notice next month.
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- Behind the scenes of Wellington Town Hall's redevelopment
  - 18 Jan 2023
  - Wellington City Council
  - The Te Whare Whakarauiki Wellington Town Hall redevelopment made great strides in 2022 with the removal of the crane, a prominent feature of the city’s skyline since 2020. Read on to find out about the next stages of the project in 2023.
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- Dixon Street flats
  - 6 Dec 2022
  - 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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- Increased seismic rankings
  - 4 Oct 2022
  - Eye of the Fish
  - The news was only out yesterday, and briefly mentioned on the news, but I have a horrible feeling that this is going to have a...
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- Wellington City Council 2022 Elections - what is being said about Earthquake-Prone Buildings?
  - 13 Sep 2022
  - Inner-City Wellington
  - Wellington City Council 2022 Elections - what is being said about Earthquake-Prone Buildings?The following is an update sent out via our eNewsletter from Geraldine Murphy - ICW's spokesperson on seismic matters.
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- The facts about base isolation at the Central Library
  - 8 Sep 2022
  - Wellington Scoop
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- Building Update - 1 September 2022
  - 31 Aug 2022
  - All Saints Hataitai
  - We thought we would give you an update about what has happened in regards to our building recently - which in short is not much!As part of our MAP - Taking Flight process we were looking at some options of what could buildings be used for in this parish in the future and I am sure that has sparked some discussion and some ideas that might be floating around. The Brick Building In July, we received a letter from the Council asking us for an engineering report as they had identified that the building was potentially an earthquake risk. In working with the Diocese we provided the engineering report that was done a while ago (which subsequently meant we could not use the building). Therefore you will see on the doors of the building there are now official notices from the council stating the risk of the building's earthquake rating. It also states on it that we have until 2 July 2037 to rectify the situation.
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- They spent $31m, and it’s quake prone?
  - 23 Jul 2022
  - Wellington Scoop
  - What’s gone wrong at the St James? As you enter the restored and strengthened building, you are confronted by a warning from its owner, the Wellington City Council, which wants you to know that the beautiful theatre is earthquake prone. The theatre reopened this month after being closed since 2019 for strengthening and refurbishing.
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