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Vote Housing
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- You may have noticed that there is a general election coming up, and the amount of hot air increasing from all sides. Billed as the...
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Shells, not Shelly!
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- Talk about a NewsFlash ! Wow – the Shelly Bay development, that no-one seemed to like or want, has just been cancelled. Not postponed, or...
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Jazz to the Maxx
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- In a recent news story on The Post, which may not have appeared on the Stuff, there was an article on a proposed new building...
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Architectural Centre – a Study in Teamwork
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- The Architectural Centre was founded in Wellington in 1946 and set off at a cracking pace – starting architecture and town planning schools, mounting the...
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Kapiti Densiti
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- In the news today, the Post reports that Kapiti Council have agreed on new Density rules for their larger urban areas. That will mean that...
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Friedrich Eisenhofer
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- Sad news, but not entirely unexpected. Friedrich (Fritz) Eisenhofer has passed away, at the splendid ripe old age of 96. NZIA has sent out a...
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All scramble, no lolly
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- A few initial thoughts on National’s transport plans for Wellington, from a fresh new author on The Eye of the Fish – Captain Haddock. Captain...
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Brooklyn Hill cycleway
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- I’m all in favour of cycleways – they are a great addition to the city, and may even allow me one day to ride a...
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District Plan Hearings
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- Right now Wellington is undergoing hearings on what may be the most important discussions on the future – the Hearings on the proposed new District...
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Accommodation providers
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- A timely and interesting post from the WCC, showing a list of relevant accommodation providers, that may or may not have issues similar to the...
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Arson or Accident?
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- There’s a depressing familiarity with the news of the destruction by fire of the sawtooth roofed buildings at Shelly Bay. It is the classic “accident”...
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All Hail: Stacey Mendonca
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- No more Queen’s Birthday honours, but instead we have the King’s Birthday honour’s list, which seems almost more anachronistic. It starts off both thoroughly well-deserved,...
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Green fields?
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- When is a MDRS not a MDRS? When Christopher Luxon agrees to it, and then disagrees to it, it seems. What am I talking about,...
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Budget 2023
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- Budget has just been announced, and I’ve still to go through it, but a couple of things sprung out to me. Public Housing – $3...
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Loafer’s Lodge fire
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- It is a pretty sad day to be writing – and we all know what about. Just over 36 hours ago, a building in Newtown...
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Arci-bollocks
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- It’s uncomfortable to say this, but sometimes architects talk a load of old bollocks. I think we have all been subject to that at one...
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St Gerard’s new owners
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- 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...
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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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