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More professional than You, fat man!
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- The NZIA Resene APL National Awards for Architecture were announced to the world last week in Christchurch, arguably the newest city on the planet, and...
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Looking at Alternative Basin Solutions
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- So far, it appears that the proposed new solution – the “final solution” – to the traffic woes of inner-city Wellington have not been that...
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Here we go again
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- Unfortunately, not a post on the OK brilliant dance band and video “Here It Goes Again” but instead we launch back into commentary on the...
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Grand Egyptian Museum
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- Over the last weekend the world was treated to something that has been a long time coming. The opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum –...
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Empire and Death Star
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- Star Wars, Return of the Jedi, The Empire Strikes Back, and Rogue One – there are so many parallels with the current Rump administration, and...
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RONS are back in town
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- My fledgling tender buds that started to like Chris Bishop and think that he may have a brain in his body have been trampled on....
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No Kings
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- Events of the weekend have left me in a slightly more positive mood than before, as at last there are some signs of moral rectitude...
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Documenti Architettura
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- We seem to be increasing our density, but so far have made a bit of a cock-up of most of the apartment block scene in...
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The World’s Worst Architecture
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- I know that we might not live in the world’s most sophisticated architectural arena down here at the arse end of the world, but this...
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Seismic changes
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- It is absolutely fantastic that Minister Chris Penk (and others? Bish?) have listened to the people and proposed to do something about the terrible mess...
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2025 Council Election things
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- Although I proposed to retire from the post of official Fish, it seems that the Eye of the Fish lingers on. We’ve had a couple...
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You’ve got to be bloody kidding me!
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- RNZ News headline today: “Govt spends $10m to fix national war memorial bells, fires only person who can play” The government spent over $10 million...
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New Fish needed
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- Sorry team – my willpower to write is gone. Too much death and tragedy in the world and not enough caring about the architecture around...
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Gordon Goneburger?
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- It is deeply sad and rather ironic that the day that the submissions for the Gordon Wilson Housing Scholarship close wth NZIA, the Minister of...
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Music Underground
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- Welcome back – yes, I’ve been away, but now I’m back and so welcome back to the readers – if anyone returns with me. There...
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Albemarle rises again
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- It has been a long time coming, and at times I doubted that it would ever happen, but the scaffolding is down at last and...
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RIP Sir Robert
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- So, Sir Bob Jones has passed away, and the news media is full of tales of politics and drama, speeding tickets and airline alternatives, being...
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Catholic gilt trip
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- Rest in Peace Francis. Rest in Peace Jorge Mario Bergoglio. While I really wanted to call this post “Is the Pope a Catholic (woman)?” that...
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Granny Flats
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- I think that I last heard the phrase “Granny Flat” used way back in the 1970s, before the term PC had been invented. But it...
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Holey Moley – we’ve gone bankrupt!
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- I hasten to add that no, this does not mean that the Eye of the Fish has gone bankrupt, nor has the entire city of...
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Myanmar
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- There is a very sober message in the pictures and videos coming out of Myanmar and Thailand, after their 7.7 earthquake. A shallow quake, similar...
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Lambton Nine-Nine
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- Another week, another week of chronic stupidity from the Council. It seems hard to fathom, given the amount of flack that Tory has weathered over...
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Khandallah Nine-Nine, Aro Nine-Nine, Brooklyn Nine-Nine
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- I couldn’t decide what to call the post today, as events seem to cover all the options available to us. Things in the city seem...
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Camouflage cladding
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- There is a movement that is growing rapidly, for reasons unknown, that is slowly colouring our urban outlook. It reminds me of the old adage...
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Tunnels not helping
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- I must confess that yesterday I laughed considerably and quite loudly, at the report that Simpleton Brown received, informing him that spending a billion or...
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Can I speak to the Architect?
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- The world is a silly place at the moment, with an over-inflated orange sock puppet stealing the airwaves far too much at present, so I...
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Brutalist vs Brutalism
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- Like the rest of the Wellington Architectural Cognoscenti, I went to a special Architectural Centre showing of The Brutalist in the weekend, because I do...
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American Carnage
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- Carnage. American Carnage, to be specific. That’s what DJ Rump announced eight years ago to the day, and what he will deliver in buckets over...
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Reading
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- What a great way to start off 2025, with the sale of Reading cinema to Prime Property. That’s the best news Wellington could have, outside...
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Bus stops with gardens on top or fixing the pipes?
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- So, this is the way we are going to end the year then, is it? Not talking about Jesus or Santa, but talking about whether...
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