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Gordon Wilson is Dead, Long Live Affordable Housing
- Salient
- Last Thursday, Wellington City Council passed what Councillor Nīkau Wi Neera described as “the most pro-housing, ambitious set of amendments that we could”, as the council voted on changes to the District Plan. The meeting saw the council’s biggest break from the NIMBY-ism which has defined housing policy in the city for decades. W after W for affordable housing flashed onto the council’s voting screens. So overwhelming were the wins for affordable housing that Councillor Nicola Young may have been left with a mild case of amnesia, saying “I’m so numb about the district plan I can barely remember what [the amendments] are.”
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Gordon Wilson Flats, Maurice Terrace, Aro Valley, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6040, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Getting rid of character
- Wellington Scoop
- Most Wellington campaigners in recent decades have fought to save the city’s unique character. So it was unusual to have a group saying it was delighted and stoked by the city council decision to reduce the city’s character areas. If the plan gets ministerial approval next month, it will however not be the first time that the council has presided over the destruction of character areas and streetscapes. Think of the regime of mayor Michael Fowler. An architect, he presided over the demolition of much of Lambton Quay’s heritage buildings.
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Restoring Wellington’s vital organ
- Wellington City Council
- The year was 1906. The most intricate technologies of the time were pipe organs, steam engines, and clocks. Yet, 15 years before we had radio in New Zealand, Wellington had music from the Town Hall organ.
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Wellington Town Hall, 109, Wakefield Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Toomath’s Buildings
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- Toomath’s Buildings We are very sorry to see that the Toomath’s Buildings at 43-47 Ghuznee Street will now be demolished after the recent fire there. The classical Edwardian building was […]
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Karori Cemetery, Northland, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Is a Prime Minster Entitled to a Nice House?
- Eye of the Fish
- There’s been a lot about this house in the news recently – both the paper kind of news, and the TV kind of news. May as well get my news from proper news sources while they exist, seeing as it sounds like soon nothing is going to exist in the news world. What will we do when 3News and OneNews are ditched, and Stuff has gone bust again? Its hard enough to even buy a paper these days, as increasingly nowhere sells them. What do we do in the future – just make up our own news as we go? Seems to be working fine for some people! Anyway, THIS is the house in question:
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Premier House, 260, Tinakori Road, Paekākā, Thorndon, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Alexander Turnbull Library’s work on the John Scott Archive
- Friends of Futuna Charitable Trust
- In 2020 the whānau of John Scott deposited the collection of his architectural plans – over 10,000 items – to the Alexander Turnbull Library for long-term care and to allow researchers to access his work.
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Concert: KODÁLY REFRAMED
- Friends of Futuna Charitable Trust
- KODÁLY REFRAMED Sunday 3 March 2024 7:00pm – 8:15pm. A concert performance offering a new take on one of the seminal solo cello works of the 20th century. Using the Indian sruti box, saxophone, taonga puoru, and voice, saxophonist Hayden Chisholm frames the three movements of Kodály’s Cello Sonata with improvisations based around the work’s… Continue reading Concert: KODÁLY REFRAMED
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Concert: KODÁLY REFRAMED
- Friends of Futuna Charitable Trust
- KODÁLY REFRAMED Sunday 3 March 2024 7:00pm – 8:15pm. A concert performance offering a new take on one of the seminal solo cello works of the 20th century. Using the Indian sruti box, saxophone, taonga puoru, and voice, saxophonist Hayden Chisholm frames the three movements of Kodály’s Cello Sonata with improvisations based around the work’s… Continue reading Concert: KODÁLY REFRAMED
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Colours of Futuna 2024 concert series
- Friends of Futuna Charitable Trust
- A series of ten concerts are coming up at Futuna Chapel by local Wellington musicians, including choir, and instrumental works. Click here for more information about the 2024 Colours of Futuna series. The 2024 concert series will be the ninth time we have run this exciting and valuable concert series in the iconic setting of Futuna… Continue reading Colours of Futuna 2024 concert series
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Futuna Chapel, Futuna Close, Karori, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Colours of Futuna 2024 concert series
- Friends of Futuna Charitable Trust
- A series of ten concerts are coming up at Futuna Chapel by local Wellington musicians, including choir, and instrumental works. Click here for more information about the 2024 Colours of Futuna series. The 2024 concert series will be the ninth time we have run this exciting and valuable concert series in the iconic setting of Futuna… Continue reading Colours of Futuna 2024 concert series
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Futuna Chapel, Futuna Close, Karori, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Kerstin Thompson: Futuna Lecture Series
- Friends of Futuna Charitable Trust
- We are delighted to confirm the dates for the Futuna Lecture Series for this year, featuring Melbourne-based architect Kerstin Thompson.
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Sylvia townsend warner on the letters of katherine mansfield
- Katherine Mansfield House
- In 1929, writer Sylvia Townsend Warner published a piece in The New York Herald Tribune about Katherine Mansfield’s letters, entitled ‘Death and The Lady: The Letters of Katherine Mansfield’. This blog post introduces the piece, which you can read in full.
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Katherine Mansfield House and Garden, 25, Tinakori Road, Wadestown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Dominion Building Dome restored to former glory
- Wellington City Council
- Situated on the curved corner of Victoria and Mercer streets, the Dominion Building is a prominent heritage building in Wellington’s townscape and the historical home of the Dominion newspaper and printery for almost fifty years.
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Dominion Building, Mercer Street, Lambton, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Waitangi Day 2024 – Open Day
- Wrights Hill Fortress
- Wellington’s historic Wrights Hill Fortress in Karori will be open for public inspection again on Waitangi Day, TUESDAY, February 6th. The World War Two coastal battery first opened to the public in 1989 and will be accessible between 10am and 4pm. The post Waitangi Day 2024 – Open Day appeared first on Wrights Hill Fortress.
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Wright's Hill Fortress, Wrights Hill Road, Karori, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Talking books with annabel langbein
- Katherine Mansfield House
- On Tuesday 28 November 2023 we were delighted to host culinary queen and lifelong adventurer Annabel Langbein for a fundraising event to support Katherine Mansfield House & Garden. Here are some of the books and writers she mentioned.
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Katherine Mansfield House and Garden, 25, Tinakori Road, Wadestown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Toomath’s Building
- Eye of the Fish
- Farewell to the Toomath’s Buildings then. Designed by architect William Crichton, completed by 1901. Survived years of neglect – did not survive a group of...
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Toomath’s Buildings, Ghuznee Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6040, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Council update #5 on Toomath’s Building fire
- Wellington City Council
- Work on the fire damaged Toomath’s Building has progressed quickly and the cordon along Ghuznee Street has been lifted today (Monday 23 October).
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Toomath’s Buildings, Ghuznee Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6040, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Council update #4 on Toomath’s Building fire
- Wellington City Council
- The Toomath’s Building owners have engaged a contractor to start demolition of the fire damaged building with the aim to open Ghuznee Street early next week.
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Toomath’s Buildings, Ghuznee Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6040, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Council update #3 on Toomath’s Building fire
- Wellington City Council
- Following engineer reports, Wellington City Council has issued a dangerous building notice requiring urgent works for public safety to the owners of the Toomath’s Building.
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Toomath’s Buildings, Ghuznee Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6040, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Council update #2 on Toomath’s Building fire
- Wellington City Council
- The investigation into the Ghuznee Street building fire is on-going and the cordon remains in place for the foreseeable future.
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Toomath’s Buildings, Ghuznee Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6040, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Wellington City Council update on Toomath’s Building fire
- Wellington City Council
- Wellington City Council building officers, welfare team and environmental health officers are currently assisting FENZ and Police following a fire in the Toomath’s Building at 43 - 47 Ghuznee Street.
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Toomath’s Buildings, Ghuznee Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6040, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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NEWS RELEASE – Labour Day 2023 Open Day
- Wrights Hill Fortress
- FOR IMMEDIATE USE – OCTOBER 2023 Wellington’s historic Wrights Hill Fortress in Karori will be opened for public inspection again on LABOUR DAY, Monday 23rd October, the first official day of Wellington Heritage week The World War Two coastal battery will be accessible between 10am and 4pm.
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Wright's Hill Fortress, Wrights Hill Road, Karori, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Should we hang on to our heritage buildings?
- Capital Magazine
- Take a walk through Wellington with Dennis Clifford as he investigates whether heritage buildings deserve a place in our city's future. The post Should we hang on to our heritage buildings? appeared first on Capital Magazine.
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The tale of our typewriter
- Katherine Mansfield House
- Right in time for school holidays, you can now try writing like Katherine Mansfield! We recently purchased a Corona 3 typewriter from a local auction house, the exact same model as the one Katherine Mansfield used.
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Katherine Mansfield House and Garden, 25, Tinakori Road, Wadestown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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St Gerard’s Monastery altar moving to Wellington’s Sacred Heart Cathedral
- Metropolitan Cathedral of the Sacred Heart
- The altar from Wellington’s landmark St Gerard’s Church and Monastery has been given to the city’s Catholic Sacred Heart Cathedral for future use. St Gerard’s former owner, the Institute for World Evangelisation (ICPE Mission), has been finding new homes for furniture and other items after selling the earthquake-prone buildings in March. Particular attention was given to sacred items, many of which have historical value to the Catholic Archdiocese of Wellington.
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St Gerard's monastery, Hawker Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Vale Jim Allen
- Friends of Futuna Charitable Trust
- The Friends of Futuna Charitable Trust are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Jim Allen, the artist, sculptor and light modulator of Futuna Chapel. Jim worked closely with Chapel architect John Scott and together they created, working in a mutually respectful and collaborative partnership, a shared masterwork that is Futuna Chapel. The building … Continue reading "Vale Jim Allen"
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Futuna Chapel, Futuna Close, Karori, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Vale Jim Allen
- Friends of Futuna Charitable Trust
- The Friends of Futuna Charitable Trust are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Jim Allen, the artist, sculptor and light modulator of Futuna Chapel. Jim worked closely with Chapel architect John Scott and together they created, working in a mutually respectful and collaborative partnership, a shared masterwork that is Futuna Chapel. The building … Continue reading "Vale Jim Allen"
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Futuna Chapel, Futuna Close, Karori, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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NEWS RELEASE – Kings Birthday – 5th June – Open Day
- Wrights Hill Fortress
- FOR IMMEDIATE USE … MAY / JUNE 2023 Wellington’s historic Wrights Hill Fortress in Karori will be reopening for public inspection again on King’s Birthday, Monday 5th June.
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Wright's Hill Fortress, Wrights Hill Road, Karori, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Do you have a heritage building? There's a new guide
- INNER-CITY WELLINGTON
- From WCC We've produced a new guide to support heritage building owners who need to strengthen their properties against earthquakes.
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Katherine mansfield and coronations
- Katherine Mansfield House
- There were two coronations during Katherine Mansfield’s lifetime – King Charles’ great-great grandfather Edward VII in August 1902, and his great-grandfather George V in June 1911. This blog post looks at her experience of them.
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Katherine Mansfield House and Garden, 25, Tinakori Road, Wadestown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Building Madness in Mt Vic
- Who said renovating a character cottage wasn't easy?! I did!! Why did I buy that house...
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Friends of Futuna Charitable Trust
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Futuna Chapel, Futuna Close, Karori, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Heritage Building Inventory
- The Heritage List contains basic information on each place that has official heritage status with Wellington City Council. To be included a place must have significant historic, architectural, technical or social value, or be significant to tangata whenua and other Maori.
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Historic Places Wellington
- We are a membership not-for-profit organisation based in Wellington, New Zealand. We advocate for heritage in the wider Wellington region, and offer events such as talks, walks and visits to historic places and buildings.
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Katherine Mansfield House
- The Katherine Mansfield Birthplace is the childhood home of one of the world's best-known short story writers and New Zealand's most famous author.
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Katherine Mansfield House and Garden, 25, Tinakori Road, Wadestown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Keep Wellingtons Character
- Keep Wellington’s Character is a heritage based campaign that opposes sweeping building deregulation and the removal of protections in Wellington’s historic ‘character’ suburbs.
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Makara Hall and St Patricks Church
- Originally built in 1873 by the Catholic diocese, St Patricks is a non-denominational, community owned church. Situated in the farming and lifestyle area of Makara, St Patricks is twenty minutes drive from the centre of Wellington. The Church is listed with the Historic Places Trust and is lovingly maintained by local volunteers.
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Old Saint Paul's
- Old St Paul's, Thorndon, is a must see for visitors with its neo-Gothic architecture cast entirely in native timbers. Still consecrated this historic church is well loved for weddings, funerals, concerts and special events. A multi-media exhibition recently opened honouring the US Marines in NZ during WWI. Guided tours available.
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Save Erskine College Trust
- SECT's overall purpose to save Erskine College its grounds and its chapel as a significant and historic part of the Island Bay community.
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The Thistle Inn
- The Thistle Inn was built in 1840. she is the oldest hotel in NZ still trading from the original site. In July 1866 she was burnt to the ground but by December the same year she was back operating. You will see the original beer cellar through the glass floor. She is a Category 1 historic place building and was completely restored in 2004 (as close as possible to how she was in 1866).
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The life and times of James Walter Chapman-Taylor
- ‘The life and times of James Walter Chapman-Taylor’ enables us to enter into the life and times of a man, a family, a society, and ways of thinking and acting different to, yet not so distant from, our own. We enter the world of an architect, who is also an artist; builder, craftsman; a theosophist, an astrologer, a photographer, a furniture maker.
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Wellington Heritage Week
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Wellington's Coastal Defences
- On the high points around Wellington Harbour are the remains of fortifications and gun-emplacements built to defend the capital city against attack from the sea.....
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Wrights Hill Fortress feed
- Wrights Hill Fortress
- Latest Item: 22 Jan 2024
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Wright's Hill Fortress, Wrights Hill Road, Karori, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Katherine Mansfield house what's new blog 2020
- Katherine Mansfield House
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Katherine Mansfield House and Garden, 25, Tinakori Road, Wadestown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Friends of Futuna Charitable Trust feed 2020
- Friends of Futuna Charitable Trust
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cuba st project posts
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Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand/Aotearoa
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Friends of Futuna Charitable Trust news
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Building Madness in Mt Vic feed
- Building Madness in Mt Vic
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Mt. Victoria, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Heritage Buildings watchlist
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Wellington Heritage Week blog
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