So, the big news of the day is apparently going to be the tsunami that didn’t happen to swamp us. No, not the tsunami caused by the earthquake off Canada – a fairly decent-sized jolt, by all accounts, but no one hurt as no one was there – sounds like our 8.1 off Fiordland the other year, where only a fisherman got badly sloshed around….. No,…
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Regarding the old Temperance and General Building on Lambton Quay – known to next to no-one as the Harcourts building. Submissions on it’s proposed demolition are due in a week – by the end of the month. It is a crunch point for Wellingtonians – should a building owner be allowed to demolish their building because it is a bit hard to strengthen it, or do…
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At last: a return to what this blog was set up to do – a review of a local building. This one is really aimed at keeping DavidP happy, who has undoubtedly noted this progressing along. It is not quite finished yet, but is forming a much needed edge to the formerly neglected corner of Tory and College St in downtown Te Aro. We’re talking of…
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So the time has come at last: the first of a presumed wave of proposals to demolish perfectly good buildings in Wellington. Christchurch has had to put up with a swathe of demolition over the last couple of years, and they are getting so good at destroying everything down there, that they have forgotten that it is not compulsory. Cranmer Courts is their city’s latest disgrace…
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