Is it just me, or is the NZTA info about the Transmission Gully really really hard to find out? Let’s shed some light on the subject. Here’s their map for the path of Transmission Gully. Notice anything missing? Like, maybe, the ground is missing? Just white space, a new highway magnificently floating in the ether? As far as I remember, highways really don’t float much, and…
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A Wellingtonian, interested in architecture and design. But enough about me, what about you?
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Today, the DomPost devoted its entire front page to the issue of the old Town Hall building now being costed at $60m for strengthening, instead of the previous $47m. It appears that we are not taking about inflation of $13m in the 2 months since the decision was made, but that there are more foundations, and they are bigger, and so bigger base isolation is needed….
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What’s the world coming to? I take a well-deserved one week break from toiling over the blog and the day job, and the world seems to have gone mad! To recap: Parson’s bookshop closes down. Tragedy! Auckland’s tallest new building announced. Comedy! Wellington Sevens fans get drunk and party too hard. Farce! NZ Post says it is going to sell off the Petone Post sorting office…
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Good grief! I’ve just read, in an ancient copy of the Nelson Evening Mail, the report where they have invented petrol. Cop a load of this : “European Mail. The National Gazette, commenting on petroleum being used as fuel, says “We shall soon be able to announce a wonderful stride in the mechanical appliances for using liquid fuel generating steam in both marine and land boilers;…
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Hello, I’m back. Another year, another scheme for Site 10 on the Wellington Waterfront, with the latest version of the Athfield Architects proposal for North Kumutoto. Will this be the last? Will this scheme finally get through the mill of submitters and complainers, or will it too get tangled up like a Hector’s Dolphin caught in a drift net, and drown in a web of simulated…
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And so it was, one dark and chilly winters night bright and sunny summers day, that the happy elves at the Eye of the Fish decided that they would pack it in for Christmas, once more, and enjoy a well-earned break. They grouped together and gingerly picked up the old Fish, and dressed only in their festive Yuletide swimwear, carefully carried the Fish across the road,…
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“Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows that the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich That’s how it goes Everybody knows Everybody knows that the boat is leaking Everybody knows that the captain lied Everybody got this broken feeling Like their…
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It is a little difficult to know what to make of Hutt City’s proposal to create a conference centre. For a start, you have to wonder if they are really serious, and secondly, you have to wonder why they would want to knock down their best heritage buildings in order to do so. It’s not as if there is a shortage of land in the Hutt….
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Its both hard to write something on Nelson Madela, and also hard not to. But here goes. He has little to do with urban life in Wellington, and therefore there is no reason why he should be appearing in this blog, yet, he is quite possibly the most well respected politician of all time. How could I not acknowledge his passing? Pages and pages of writing…