With just over a week to go, and a giant Gandalf up on the front ledge at the Embassy, it seems like that it might just be time for another wee adventure into the architecture of the Hobbit. Last time we had an explore of what it feels like inside a nice, dry, warm Hobbit cave, namely Bag End, the home of Mr ‘Underhill’. This time,…
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A Wellingtonian, interested in architecture and design. But enough about me, what about you?
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I know we can’t really do this, what with Wellington Wind and all, but I do love a good brolly. Here’s a street with quite a few of them ! Reminds me of the buddhist peace flags up during the last Cuba Carnival – word on the street is that somehow, weirdly, two different Cuba Carnivals are being planned – and also that Cuba Carnival will…
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Nooooo, you’re doing it all wrong ! Michael Tuffery, esteemed sculptor, visual artist, creator of giant kina nesting on the side of the seabed by the Kumutoto stream – surely you’ve got it all wrong?! Two points that spring rapidly to mind – firstly – this should be underwater, and not showing out above the waves as this picture by glasnevinz today shows it! All wrong!…
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Strange how America seems so split over it’s potential next leader. To the rest of the world, it all seems very obvious… If all else fails today, it seems as if Obama could happily slip into a job as President of France… What has this to do with urban design on New Zealand? Well, nothing much really. Except that Europe’s push for austerity cuts seems to…
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Submissions are due to the WCC on Monday 5 November 2012, regarding proposals for the Design Brief for North Kumutoto (sites 8, 9, 10). Please DO make a submission – otherwise the NIMBYs may stall further work on these sites. Regarding this, I’m going to write a quick post on public space. It starts here in Wellington: The area we are talking about, obviously, is Wellington’s…
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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…