The NZIA Resene APL National Awards for Architecture were announced to the world last week in Christchurch, arguably the newest city on the planet, and one with probably the world’s greatest proportion of Architect-designed buildings in the CBD. Christchurch is looking fine! The sun was shining, the tourists are there by the thousand, and there are not any footpath beggars in sight. The buildings maketh the…
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So far, it appears that the proposed new solution – the “final solution” – to the traffic woes of inner-city Wellington have not been that well received. Is this the only solution? What other ways have people / government departments tried to solve the dilemma of “Round the Basin” intractable traffic problems over the years? You could simply look here: Above was the proposal from NZTA…
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Unfortunately, not a post on the OK brilliant dance band and video “Here It Goes Again” but instead we launch back into commentary on the most tedious slow-motion screw-up that the Western World has ever known. No, not Donal Rump’s plans for global domination on the dance floor, but instead the re-emergence of the looooong-running saga over the Basin Reserve and the motorway from The Terrace…
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Over the last weekend the world was treated to something that has been a long time coming. The opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum – the GEM. I went to the original Museum in Cairo many years ago, as a young fish, and was captivated – but it was old and fusty back then, with many glass display cases covered in dust and containing equally tired…
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