https://wellington.gen.nz/eye-of-the-fish+orientalbay Items tagged with Eye of the Fish and Oriental Bay. https://eyeofthefish.org/st-gerards-new-owners/ 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. orientalbay places architecture blogs Fri, 31 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://eyeofthefish.org/st-gerards-new-owners/ Eye of the Fish 2023-03-31T00:00:00Z -41.2918213 174.790721 St Gerard's monastery, Hawker Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand http://eyeofthefish.org/oriental-rooflines/ Architecture + (plus what, one may ask, to complete the equation), have been one of the busiest architects in the city of late, barring Athfields and Archaus of course. They have recently unveiled the Republic 2 apartments, close on the tail of the Republic (1), which itself followed quickly behind the Monument, which followed the Piermont, and that followed the Portal. Someone’s been spending long hours at work! architecture orientalbay places blogs Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://eyeofthefish.org/oriental-rooflines/ Eye of the Fish 2008-02-17T00:00:00Z -41.2918354 174.793919 Oriental Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand http://eyeofthefish.org/ohtel-by-the-park/ Wellington’s buildings continue to surprise and delight me, relative newcomer as I am to this small, perfectly-formed city. It’s not a place that you could say has great traditions of anything in particular - it has demolished most, but not all of its Victorian heritage, has a fine collection of post-modern eighties buildings that have firmly gone out of style, with the remaining collection being eclectic at best, and motley at worst. architecture orientalbay places blogs Sun, 27 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://eyeofthefish.org/ohtel-by-the-park/ Eye of the Fish 2008-01-27T00:00:00Z -41.2918354 174.793919 Oriental Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand