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Great comment on the Guardian website, in a column by Arwa Mahdawi today: “It’s worth noting that Musk, a man…
This will be great inside the new Courtney place Reading Cinemas once it reopens.
“Clem Griffiths is a well-known Wellington hospitality entrepreneur, who many years ago was involved in starting the famous Dockside Restaurant,…
As of 2021 it was picked up by Clem & Patricia Griffiths. https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/123872439/ambitious-refurbishment-of-115yearold-wellington-eyesore-forges-ahead-despite-setback
That last sentence intrigues me: “The building interior retains many original features.” Features from its time as a brothel? From…
A bit more info about the architecture itself, courtesy of the WCC Heritage inventory. “The building is a three storey…
Thanks – any idea who the backer of the project is? I know it has driven more than one person…
I noticed the (very) shiny cupola the other day,- oxidisation will eventually turn it deep brown, but at the moment…
Strangely enough, Jones refused to hire accountants. Just another one of his many contradictions, but then again, quasi-libertarians like him…
But of course ! Mobile phones are the devil’s plaything, and he was right there too – as we now…
Allegedly he also refused to own a mobile phone of any kind.
There’s a lovely memorial piece in the Post today, by Virginia Fallon. https://www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/360676000/bobs-bit-conversations-sir-robert-jones Her memories of Sir Robert echo mine…
I’m surprised that he wasn’t insisting on smoking his pipe ! No, that would have been bloody silly, even for…
He didn’t take aviation safety briefings very well either… “Sir Bob Jones was escorted off an Air New Zealand flight…
Bob also didn’t like to use a computer, and would either write a letter (with a feather quill on parchment…
Yes, but like much of what Bob said, that’s bullshit. Good design is good design, and award-winning design is good…
RIP Sir Bob. Never met him but my father worked on several of his Wellington buildings. One of his better…
“I’m presuming that the house rising out of the extensive green gardens is the Vatican Palace” Nope, notice the great…
Quite possibly the world’s longest ongoing example of development hell.
A comment on www.interest.co.nz that peels behind the headline, and finds….nothing much really. “Every media outlet is reporting it and…