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• • Stout Barricade

    • 14 Dec 2008
    • Eye of the Fish
    • For one day only, - Sunday, today, you can see the city barricaded off. By tomorrow, it’ll be gone. It’s part of the Litmus series of One Day Sculpture, and this time has been brought to you by artiste duo Heather and Ivan Morison. It’s called the Journee des Barricades, and to me, seems site specifically reacting to the inspired sculpture outside the Athfield renovation of the o
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    Stout Street, Wellington
  
  

• • Establishment Board holds its inaugural meeting

    • 2 Dec 2009
    • Amesbury Drive School Blog
    • We held our first meeting on Thursday 26th November and received briefings from Ministry of Education officials (and consultants) on a range of topics - including the resource consent process for school buildings, the need to include learning styles and curriculum into our thinking when it comes to school design and we discussed the land which is to be the site for the new school.
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• • A Fabulous New Sculpture for Waterfront.

    • 13 Oct 2009
    • Wellington Sculpture Trust
    • The Trust is pleased to announce that it is advancing arrangements for the sculpture Nga Kina by Michel Tuffery to be installed on the Kumutoto feature of Wellington's Waterfront. The Trust's Chairman, Neil Plimmer, says it is the right art work on the right site. “The initial public response has been fabulous. The work will transform and strengthen the appeal of this northern part of the waterfront.
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• • Building rumours 15: Forest and Turd

    • 8 Jul 2007
    • WellUrban
    • hanks to DeepRed for pointing this out: the so-called "Te Aro Towers" on the former Forest & Bird site on the corner of Taranaki and Wigan streets.Oh god. I'd been forewarned of its awfulness, but with higher-res images now available it looks worse than I expected. It really doesn't make it easy to promote high density urban living when unimaginative crap like this is what the market provides.
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• • Belmont - Possible Disruption to Services

    • 20 Mar 2008
    • Wellington VHF Group
    • There may be some disruption to Belmont services over the next week. A number of trees have grown up into the 11kV supply line to the Belmont site and present a significant forest-fire hazard to the landlord's forest. As such the power has been disconnected. Until the power can be restored it will be attempted to run reduced services on a combination of batteries and a mobile generator.
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• • Intense, man!

    • 28 Sep 2007
    • The Wellingtonista
    • I've been blathering about it all over the place, but the Wellingtonista has thus far remained staunchly unblathered about IntensCITY week, which started yesterday. Downtown Wellington is full of exhibitions, posters, shipping containers, lunchtime talks and video installations, all celebrating and/or critiquing our urban spaces. The official site is on the WCC website, and brochures are available in cafes, libraries and council places, or as a big juicy PDF.
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• • Century City Ho

    • 23 Jan 2009
    • Eye of the Fish
    • For a brief moment in time it seemed as though time had stood still, and that El Terry had given up finishing it, but then it was restarted with new contractors who actually seemed keen to complete the project. It’s one of the more complex developments Wellington has seen for a number of years: taking a barren empty site and layering on it a monster carpark for initial income generating pote
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    • blogs

    78 Tory Street, Wellington
  
  

• • Department of Linky Love: The Examiner

    • 21 Jan 2011
    • The Wellingtonista
    • It’s nice to see some solid local news reporting over at new Wellington website The Examiner. The Examiner says it aims to be “… a site where we look deeper and think harder about the city we live in and the issues that matter to us. It is also a forum for telling Wellingtonians’ stories, especially for people who would not otherwise have a voice.” Neat. Welcome, The Examiner.
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• • August 2014: 4 Plinths 5 call for proposals

    • 1 Aug 2014
    • Wellington Sculpture Trust
    • The four plinths are the massive bollards situated on the waterfront between Te Papa and Circa Theatre. It is on this site that the Wellington Sculpture Trust showcases New Zealand sculptural practice with the biennial temporary sculpture installation: the 4 Plinths Sculpture Award. The chosen sculpture will form part of the New Zealand International Arts Festival’s visual arts programme and remain in place outside Te Papa for up to two years.
    • Accepted from WST news 134 months ago
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• • Work in progress 7 March 2015

    • 10 Mar 2015
    • Rimutaka Incline Railway
    • Bart and Graeme have done a wonderful job tending to the native shrubs and trees planted at our Maymorn site. A host of native shrubs and trees have been planted alongside our future mainline formation to the Kaitoke side of the pedestrian crossing. The plants have taken despite the arduous ground conditions and occasional accidental dose of weedspray - a vast improvement over the gorse and blackberry the previously occupied the area.
    • Accepted from Rimutaka Incline Railway Heritage Trust news 129 months ago
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    Rimutaka Incline Railway Heritage Trust, Maymorn, Upper Hutt, Upper Hutt City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Beagle boys

    • 11 Feb 2009
    • Te Papa's blog
    • Conrad Martens, Kororareka in the Bay of Islands, 1841 In honour of Charles Darwin’s birthday today, here’s a work by one of the artists from HMS Beagle. Conrad Martens painted this view of Kororareka, the site of modern Russell, in 1841. It’s based on sketches which he made during on a brief visit there in 1835. Martens had left the Beagle by this point, but the ship passed through New Zealand la
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• • Gardens Magic Update

    • 16 Jan 2011
    • WCC Watch
    • We’ve had quite a few people visiting the site to get the Gardens Magic updates, so we’re going to keep them going. Unfortunately there is nothing planned for tonight or Tuesday, the days were reserved in case any earlier shows had to be cancelled due to rain. That said, the lights are still on, so if you want to enjoy them without the crowds, now would be a good time to do so!
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    • wellington-city-council
  
  

• • The fun police

    • 19 Dec 2007
    • WellUrban
    • "Graffiti Alley" between the Left Bank and Ghuznee St may have just been edged out in the Wellingtonista Best Public Art awards, but it's still the most dynamic and democratic site of all. There were some particularly interesting goings-on a couple of weekends ago, and when I walked past early one the evening the masked artists were hard at work; later that evening they were still there, but being sternly spoken to by the boys in blue.
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    • cuba-street

    Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Downstage tribute to Martyn Sanderson

    • 15 Oct 2009
    • Downstage Theatre
    • It is with great sorrow that the Board, Staff and Members of Downstage Theatre, received news of the passing last night of founder and former director, Martyn Sanderson. Martyn was one of several visionary Wellingtonians who worked together in 1963 and 1964 to start Downstage, New Zealand's first professional theatre, and he appeared in or directed many early productions, including starring with Peter Bland in the first production on the Cambridge Terrace site: Edward Albee's Zoo Story.
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    • obituaries

    Downstage Theatre, Cambridge Terrace, Mt. Victoria, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6011, New Zealand
  
  

• • Wellington is facing rising sea levels

    • 4 Dec 2009
    • Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
    • At the Wellington City Council Strategy and Policy Committee briefing of December 1 we were shown a computer model of the areas of Wellington that would be flooded by sea level rise as a consequence of global warming. One of the areas that may be impacted is the site of the Indoor Sports Centre. There is no doubt there will be consequences that will be beyond our control even if Wellington were to reduce green house gas emissions.
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    ASB Sports Centre, Kemp Street, Kilbirnie, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6022, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Four Plinths sculpture, Round Three

    • 14 Jul 2011
    • Wellington Sculpture Trust
    • The third of Wellington’s Four Plinths Temporary Sculpture Project is to be installed by Wellington artist Joanna Langford, the Wellington Sculpture Trust has announced. Joanna’s work will be placed on the Four Plinths between Te Papa and Circa Theatre in February 2012, in time for the next Arts Festival. Her artwork follows the current pieces on the site Mimetic Brotherhood by Peter Trevelyan and its predecessor Green Islands by Regan Gentry hich is now in the Botanic Garden.
    • Accepted from WST news 173 months ago
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    Digging holes for poles.

    • 6 Feb 2007
    • T3 Track Blog
    • A quick session on T3 to cement the posts in ready for the work party on The Skinks Back in the middle of October 2006. Hard work getting all the timber down to the site but thanks to Stu from the Council not as hard as it could have been. That work party was canceled due to weather and it was not until Feburary 2007 that we got back to make a start on the critter.
    • Accepted from T3 Track Blog feed 80 months ago by feedreader
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    • blogs
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• • Whats happening on Holland?

    • 6 Oct 2008
    • Eye of the Fish
    • Down here on Holland St, construction is definitely nothing new. Of late we’ve seen the Century City development starting to shape up, as well as the smaller additions of the oh-so-contemporary product spec office and the always-vibrant fuel expresso HQ. I had assumed that the construction site present on the first floor of the ‘zebra hostel’ was just simple renovation or the like; but the additon of an interesting catipillar-like lighting trail has picqued both my curiosity and expectations.
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    Holland Street, Wellington
  
  

• • Phoenix: Warm-up Match Moved Again

    • 18 Jul 2007
    • The Wellingtonista
    • The first Wellington Phoenix home pre-season game has been moved for the second time. Originally announced for the Basin Reserve, at some point it was switched to Newtown Park and now, according to the official site it has been moved to Westpac Stadium due to “concerns that Newtown Park would not have the capacity to cope with the big crowd expected.” Sunday at 2.00pm is kick-off time and the tickets are only $10 (and free for under 16s).
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• • A New Farm for Ohariu

    • 29 Jan 2008
    • Eye of the Fish
    • It has been confirmed that Meridian Energy plans to build a new wind farm in the Ohariu Valley, with 31 turbines across 4000 hectares. The proposed site is owned by 5 farmers, who banded together in 2002 to negotiate proposals with various energy companies. Talks had stalled over price issues in 2003, but recently an agreement has been reached. Having met with the community last night, it is unclear whether the project will face significant opposition from the local residents.
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• • Silverstream Spur Upper Hutt, saving a public amenity for future generations

    • 22 Sep 2021
    • Silver Stream Railway
    • Update September 2021.On the 22nd of September 2021 Upper Hutt City Council voted to scrap the controversial Memorandom Of Understanding that was signed back in 2016 between UHCC and a developer seeking to build 100 houses on he Slverstream Spur. Silver Stream Railway is obviously delighted with this step as we understand talk of constructing any houses on the Spur is now scuppered, a major step change from only a few months ago when we saw concept drawings of the 100 houses overlooking our site.
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• • Manners Mall submission

    • 19 May 2010
    • Architectural Centre Inc
    • The Architectural Centre has made the following submission : Manners Mall Carpark on the WCC’s proposal’s for the redevelopment of Manner’s Mall. As you may note from the written and drawn information, we were very much less than impressed. We are calling for the WCC to scrap the current scheme owing to its predominate use of car parking, and to re-design the spaces for the use of people, not cars. Wellington deserves better than this from our Council, especially at such an important, central city site.
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    Big discoveries at Kaiwharawhara Stream

    • 11 Jan 2018
    • Mountains to Sea Wellington
    • Wellington East Girls College Year 13 Biology students are scientists making big discoveries and building big action plans! Through their NCEA assessments in 2018, they have been studying the Kaiwharawhara Stream, investigating how changes in the physical characteristics of the waterway are impacting the native fish and invertebrates. Now they are turning science into restoration! They were interested in one site especially, a small tributary of the Kaiwharawhara where it flows from Johnston's Hill in Karori, through the Karori Cemetery and out into the main arm of the Kaiwharawhara at Otari Wilton Bush.
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    Kaiwharawhara Stream, Chartwell, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6140, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Sir Michael Fowler

    • 14 Jul 2022
    • Eye of the Fish
    • 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 only got a couple of benighted Architects, and there has only ever been one person who has attained both honours. Our only knighted Architect Mayor, Sir Michael Fowler, has sadly just passed away. I was not in Wellington when he was around, and only knew of him in a second-hand manner at the time, so I have asked an esteemed contributor to the site if he would like to say a few words. And lovely words they are.
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• • Jon Sanders plays for Acoustic Routes

    • 29 Feb 2024
    • Acoustic Routes
    • Thursday 28 March, Roseneath School Hall, Maida Vale Road, Roseneath, Wellington, 7:30 pm. Parking on site or catch the number 14 bus. Entry: $25/$20 for members. Cash only (no eftpos facilities). Fresh from his NZ tour, bassouki world music artist Jon Sanders brings his eclectic sounds to Wellington. Featuring tracks that explore the world of sound in the Celtic Folk, Afrofunk and Kirtan genres, Jon will play tracks from his latest project – Tenalach – embracing the synergy between nature and our inner circadian rhythms and tracks from his latest album Nada Brahma (meaning the world is sound in ancient Hindu).
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    Roseneath School, 13, Maida Vale Road, Roseneath, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Making a mess of a waterfront park

    • 8 Mar 2023
    • Wellington Scoop
    • We are appalled by what is proposed for Frank Kitts Park – sliced, diced, cut up by the City Council, and no longer a park but a building site. On Monday night a group of us – Civic Trust Board members – were invited to a presentation by Council Officers. They told us they were just doing what the Council had asked them to do: to progress a new building on Frank Kitts Park, but first to survey ‘the public’ over four weeks only, starting this Friday, by asking us whether we want a fale malae on Frank Kitts Park.
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    • fale-malae

    Frank Kitts Park, Lambton, Wellington Central, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Two Pensions?

    • 7 Sep 2008
    • Eye of the Fish
    • In the heart of Wellington’s old Chinatown, namely the narrow low-scale neighbourhood of Haining St, there is one of the few trees that are growing in Te Aro, nestling happily in the lee of an also fairly non-descript warehouse building. Until fairly recently the site was the home of a film unit, a student flat, and parking for assorted businesses, until it was sold and resold and eventually ended up in the hands of the property spruikers known as Rich Mastery: organizers of ‘property seminars’ - otherwise known as a way to “get rich quick”.
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• • Good sports

    • 21 Aug 2007
    • WellUrban
    • There's a Waterfront Development Subcommittee meeting on tomorrow night, and for once, I'm not going to put myself through all that pain. While there's no single development up for specific debate, this time, feedback is due on the entire draft Waterfront Development Plan, so all the interested parties are having their say.Of the 633 written submissions, 604 were about the future of indoor sport given the changes to Sheds 1 and 6; and in particular, most of these called for the ground floor of Site 10 to become the new indoors sports venue, along the lines of what I've also been suggesting.
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    ASB Sports Centre, Kemp Street, Kilbirnie, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6022, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Belmont Off-Line

    • 30 Jun 2008
    • Wellington VHF Group
    • The Belmont repeater site has been shut down. The storm over the weekend of 28/29 June has broken the 11kV power line on the Belmont side of the gully. A small slip on the pylon access road and poor track conditions are hampering access. With another bout of bad weather approaching it may be several days before the slip can be cleared and the line is repaired. Anyone who is willing to help clear the slip should contact Peter ZL3TC on (04) 938 3386 or 021 185 0640. Services will be restored as soon as possible.
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    Belmont, Wellington
  
  
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    Otis Frizzell at Te Papa next week

    • 9 Oct 2009
    • Te Papa's blog
    • Givealittle approached artist Otis Frizzell to incorporate these messages of support into a special artwork to be gifted to the people of Samoa. Limited editions of the work will also be made available with the monies raised going to the Red Cross. Otis will be in Te Papa’s Wellington Foyer on Level 2 working on this very special artwork from Monday 12 to Friday 16 October so come along, have a chat to Otis and see art in progress! If you can’t make it in to Te Papa, check out our flickr site for progress pics!
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