In other news, keep an eye out on this website from NZTA regarding the long-awaited ‘options’ for the flyover in the Basin Reserve. There’s nothing much there at present, as they have yet to load on the different ‘options’ their design team has come up with, but they promise to undertake some ‘consultation’ with the public, in 2 phases:
“The first will be in February 2010 when the project team will have a number of options ready for public consultation.
The second will be in the latter part of 2010 after a preferred option has been selected.”
They’ve got…
read the full entryUpdated! Now featuring Paisley Park! A short post – featuring the work of one of our readers who prefers to remain uncredited: showcasing the new Supreme Court, but with a more pacific-style wrapping to the ‘screen’. Frangipani rules!
Naughty: but somehow satisfyingly appropriate. Feel free to send us in your versions with other alternative schemes, should you feel so inclined, and we’ll post them up here. .
Update: another version from our secret admirer of the statuesque lines of the Supreme temple, this time featured in Paisley. Very fetching – fit for a Prince of course.
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read the full entryHooray, the Dominion Post is finally taking an interest in architecture! Well Done to their photographer Kent Blechynden with his page 3 photo, a full frontal spread of the boys from PyraDeck striking the scaffolding on part of the Sodo apartments.
It’s a lovely photo – well composed, full of little colour accents ie the fluoro Hi-Vi vests of the workers, and its really good to see some new buildings in the paper. The only thing it missed out was the noise aspect as well – each of the men had to say Yep in a loud voice…
read the full entryIn one of the increasingly un-secretish and badly-kept secrets that Apple used to be so good at, the world’s internet media has been double guessing what Apple’s “Media Event” on 27 January (our Thursday 28th) will be unveiling. Yes, I know, we’re a Wellington architecture and urban design blog, but who doesn’t like a juicy fresh apple? And besides, sometimes you just want to break out a little.
“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched sea-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate – all those moments will…
read the full entryWe’re back in business. How could we not be – today of all days. There are so many things that we could discuss – a Whale on the loose, a Dolphin run amok, a Basset feeding kittens, horrific tales of woe from the mess that is Haiti, a right royal Willy shaking hands, a Cockatoo with a cock or too, and a Fish on the comeback trail. But most of all, a giant bronze Crayfish cage plonked down on Lambton Quay, with a pinecone stuck inside. Oh, there is too much irony in the world to waste time with platitudes…
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