There is a movement that is growing rapidly, for reasons unknown, that is slowly colouring our urban outlook. It reminds me of the old adage that goes: “A doctor can bury their mistakes, but an architect can only grow ivy.” And when your building is 10 or 12 stories high, then the form of ivy that grows that high, is randomly-distributed, assorted colours of cladding. It…
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I must confess that yesterday I laughed considerably and quite loudly, at the report that Simpleton Brown received, informing him that spending a billion or two drilling two new tunnels under / through Wellington was actually going to make the traffic slower, not faster. Well, duh! I’ve been saying for quite some time that putting in a new Terrace Tunnel in, to speed up the amount…
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The world is a silly place at the moment, with an over-inflated orange sock puppet stealing the airwaves far too much at present, so I thought I would have a post about something else – like a musical interlude. What could go wrong if we have a brief look at the Emmys? Grammys? Oscars? Silver Scrolls? After all, one of the songs was called “The Architect”,…
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