In a slight digression from the normal focus of this blog, the following is an all out rant about advertising on TV – or the appalling bad nature of most of it. Is there anything that can be done? Is there any way that advertisers can be strung up and publicly garroted until they stop producing such rubbish? Let me see if I have got this…
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A Wellingtonian, interested in architecture and design. But enough about me, what about you?
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Well fiddle-dee-dee, potatoes, it’s St Paddies day and time for a wee post on the latest Oirchitecture from Oireland, to be sure, to be sure…. I’m bemused and befuddled every St Patrick’s Day, as I may have said before – as a country we don’t have that much connection to Ireland, being mainly descended form English, Scottish, and Polynesian bloodlines: and yet we go fairly hard…
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It’s times like this that I feel quite sorry for Aucklanders. Not only are they having the mutha of all political conglomerations shoved down their necks without so much as a by-your-leave, and not only are they being stung with governance by 7 quangos over which they will have no control, and not only do they have an incoherent waterfront and no sign of fixing it,…
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Since the one day symposium last year on the architecture of the 1980s, I’ve been paying more attention to buildings from the 1980s. At first I was somewhat incredulous that we should be looking to celebrate the architecture of that decade so soon after it occurred, but then I realised that as the birth decade of full blown PoMo in NewZild, there are going to be…
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The Wellington City Council must have known it was going to be picking a hard road to go down when it proposed Variation 11, and sure enough, the District Plan change is due to go to appeal at the Environment Court. Most of our readers will know about it: it’s a variation to permit buildings of a certain size to be constructed on the waterfront, without…
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One side of the Pacific plate: horrificly large earthquake. Hundreds dead, thousands homeless, yet again buildings destroyed. We’re lucky it wasn’t us. On the other side of the plate sits New Zealand. And, let’s be honest, a pitifully small tsunami – yes, we’re extremely happy not to have been swept away by the waves, but really, truthfully and honestly: Civil Defense grossly over-reacted, didn’t it? While…
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Every year, around this time, Wellington comes alive with festivals and carnivals. Last year it was the Cuba Carnival, when we blossom briefly into a Latin lovers paradise for one brief weekend, complete with dancing girls, massive gaudy floats, and the almighty Batucada band. We blogged about that somewhere – maybe here. Note to self: must start planning for massive Fish float for next year. Perhaps…
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Like most patrons of the fantastic facility that is the Film Archive, I bear scars on my legs from the constant attack around the calves of the world’s most badly designed chairs (the un-finished ends of the angle-iron cross bars scratch stockings, rip jeans, and pierce bare skin). As I sit here with my leg quietly bleeding onto the carpet at Eye of the Fish world…
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In other news, keep an eye out on this website from NZTA regarding the long-awaited ‘options’ for the flyover in the Basin Reserve. There’s nothing much there at present, as they have yet to load on the different ‘options’ their design team has come up with, but they promise to undertake some ‘consultation’ with the public, in 2 phases: “The first will be in February 2010…
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Updated! Now featuring Paisley Park! A short post – featuring the work of one of our readers who prefers to remain uncredited: showcasing the new Supreme Court, but with a more pacific-style wrapping to the ‘screen’. Frangipani rules! Naughty: but somehow satisfyingly appropriate. Feel free to send us in your versions with other alternative schemes, should you feel so inclined, and we’ll post them up here….