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Dying or just tired?
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- I was really puzzled by the article in the Dom Post in the weekend featuring local architect Angela Foster claiming that Wellington was an “expensive...
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Valentines Day Massacre
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- So far, so good – in Wellington at least. The rest of the big Fish of Maui seems to be taking a pasting. Weather is...
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Turkish quakes
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- Horrifying and tragic – the Turkish / Syrian earthquakes have been a steadily growing, unfolding disaster for the last week. Totals of 200 dead initially...
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Dutch Apartment block
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- The apartment blocks going up in New Zealand are a little lacking in imagination. But it does not have to be like that. I was...
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State of Emergency
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- While it is sad to see the mighty Queen City of Auckland brought to its knees over some rain, it is nice not to have...
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The Ardern Years
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- Although the news yesterday was full of journos saying that they had not expected Jacinda Ardern to announce her resignation first thing in the morning,...
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Designed to dominate
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- Today’s post is a special one, contributed by regular reader Starkive By 1972 New Zealanders were questioning the environmental impact of humans and their engineering....
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Time for a Holiday
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- It’s a pretty lonely life here at the Eye of the Fish – tough at the top, as they say. But there are some things...
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Dixon Street details
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- 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...
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Dixon Street flats
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- In the typical manner of the bus, where you wait forever and then three buses come at once, so it feels for topics of conversation...
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Building on top of a sewer tank
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- This post was going to be called “New School of Music” but then I thought – no, hold on, this could really cause a stink....
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Last new building on the waterfront
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- Arguably, the brand new building on Site 9 at Kumutoto, leased out to lawyers Bell Gully and others, will be the last ever new building...
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Making Space
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- Elizabeth Cox’s book Making Space – A History of New Zealand Women in Architecture is a treasure trove of information, that I suspect will take...
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Tory Party
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- Celebrate! Well done Wellington, for electing a fresh, new, young Maori woman Mayor, Tory Whanau – and farewell and thank you to Andy Foster, for...
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Increased seismic rankings
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- 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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Four District Plans and a Funeral
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- Today (Monday) is the last day for submissions on the proposed District Plan that will govern the shape of the city for the next 50...
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Sir Miles Warren
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- Sir Miles Warren died on Tuesday, the last of our knighted architects. He was 93. A prolifically talented architect, he and his practice were without...
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Mayor of Gotham City
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- The other night, cooped up inside on yet another interminable stormy wet wintery night, I chanced across Batman Returns, the Michael Keaton Bat-flick featuring Danny...
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LGWM: The Gauntlet
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- Hi fishes. Well the LGWM thing was announced supporting the big, most expensive package. As you know I got my issues, discussed in 3-Big-Flaws here....
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Sir Michael Fowler
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- It’s a rare thing for an Architect to become a Mayor – and even rarer for an Architect to become a Knight. We (NZ) have...
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Feedback time again
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- Slowly but surely, at a majestic but glacial pace, Let’s Get Wellington Moving are moving forwards. Well, moving, at least. Maybe it is forwards. Maybe...
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Celebration
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- In an announcement released quietly on 4th July, by MBIE, there is some massive cause for celebration. “MBIE advises seismically vulnerable buildings can remain occupied”...
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LGWM Decision at last
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- Transport Minister Michael Wood blindsided Wellington this morning, with an announcement – and a definite decision – that Wellington is going to get Light Rail...
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Council votes today
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- Today is the day that the elected Councillors will vote on the Proposed District Plan, which will shape our city for the next thousand years...
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Engineers
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- Engineers – it’s time to stand up and be counted. I’m not sure if you lot in the Engineering crowd have noticed lately, but Aotearoa...
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On the buses
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- I hesitate to even bother to post this, as the topic seems so small and the problem is so easily solved, but apparently the Busdriver’s...
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Portals
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- 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...
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Ukraine
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- When I’m not posting up here, it’s generally because I’m busy doing other things, but recently, because I’ve been following the war in Ukraine with...
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Te Matapihi
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- 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 Architecture book
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- Hello again, and welcome back to the Eye of the Fish. I had quite a bit of work to do, and then I needed a...
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