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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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Rangihaeata’s big adventure
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- So today Transmission Gully was opened – blessed, ribbon cut, journos let through, and a few selected souls have had access. Tomorrow, it opens to...
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Inevitable
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- So…. that was interesting. No real surprise there, that it would end in violence, given the people involved and the poor attitudes towards common sense...
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If you want to Fight for Freedom, go to Ukraine
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- The numpty-heads down at Parliament continue to protest and cause disruption, crying out for Freedom, when they honestly do not know what real “fighting for...
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Scaffold city
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- Just a quick question to the architectural / urban world out there – what the heck is happening to this building? I thought it was...
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Drongos Go Home!
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- Urban protest has a long history in New Zealand and especially in Wellington, being the capital and all that. I’ve been on a few myself...
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Paddington
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- MR AND MRS Brown first met Paddington on a housing development platform. In fact, that was how he came to have such an unusual name for a...
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Twordle
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- Are you doing a Wordle each day? You probably are – it is growing exponentially, even faster than Covid, although a lot more enjoyable. For...
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Ika Rere
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- It’s wonderful to see that the dreams of East by West Ferries have come true, with the launching of the Ika Rere, the brand new...
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Zzzzzz
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- I can’t believe how nice this weather is right now – just beautiful, as if to make up for the rubbish weather we had immediately...
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Density in Island Bay
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- Having taken the chance to venture south of the city, to deepest darkest Island Bay, home of the Empire, the old Terminus, the Parade, and...
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