Eye of the Fish » wigan http://eyeofthefish.org A wide-angle view of architecture, urban design and life in Wellington Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:22:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Tattoo You Too http://eyeofthefish.org/tattoo-you-too/ http://eyeofthefish.org/tattoo-you-too/#comments Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:00:00 +0000 Maximus http://eyeofthefish.org/?p=1150 Updated photos included – see end of original post
Although we’ve just recently posted about Apartments being the green shoots of economic recovery, we weren’t exactly sure if that was true. Is that a proven fact, or just another Eye of the Fish pescatorial scheme? Well, probably neither. But we didn’t think that our economic theory would get another item of proof just the next week.

And so, with a big hello to all the ReMax twitterers out there receiving our feed, we bring you the latest incarnation of the site where the Tattoo Museum was in…

]]> http://eyeofthefish.org/tattoo-you-too/feed/ 16 Wellington goes High Tech http://eyeofthefish.org/wellington-goes-high-tech/ http://eyeofthefish.org/wellington-goes-high-tech/#comments Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:54:24 +0000 Maximus http://eyeofthefish.org/wellington-goes-high-tech/ In an act of architectural brilliance, the Duel on Vivian block of flats opposite the School of Architecture appears to be not only a green building (avocado green, or mushy pea green) with prefabricated external cladding (that I’m sure they will get around to finishing the corners on one day), but also appears to have gone all Richard-Rogers-style High-Tech on us, with the south facade featuring exposed plumbing down over the tiny (curiously random) balconies. 

At first I thought the flexible black plumbing pipes must have been a temporary feature, but they’ve been there for weeks – almost months…

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