Wellington’s lucky in this respect I guess: although we have many tourists (usually), we have a few other strings to our bow, so to speak. We have a University or two, or three, we have a major regional hospital, we have a flourishing port that will probably survive the loss of cruise ships, we have (or had) several musical / concert / opera venues / theatres…
The Eye of the Fish has always been advertisement-free. Maximus started it off that way and the rest of the writers that followed (including Leviathan) have been happy to continue in that vein. To me it is a pain in the arse to have to wade through adverts, either slipped into the text or as stand-alone separate advert spots. I employ ad-blocker software at home and…
So, Tuesday morning we start to arise from our self-imposed slumber. The move from level 4 down to level 3 gives us the much-vaunted option of “Level Four plus KFC”, but this does give us a much wider range of nosh than just bits of chicken and gravy. Ironically of course, the “Wellington on a Plate for Takeaway or Delivery” website doesn’t list KFC as one…
Further to the last Eye of the Fish post about the demise of Urbis et al, there has been movement about securing a more stable future for NZ’s flagship magazine for Architecture. That would be Architecture NZ, in case you are not aware, which is also the official Journal of the NZIA (at least, I think it still is). Definitely the flagship in printed magazine form….
I love magazines – those that know me will know that I have quite a few at Fish World Headquarters – so it feels only right that I try to pen an obituary (OK, to keyboard it, stop being so picky), to the fact that our meagre Architectural Press in this country has just died. Well, almost everything. Where do we even start? The media has…
Getting tired of all this endless Virus talking? So am I. Yes, yes, it is so much better to have the problem of getting bored with waiting for nothing to happen, than to have the problem of everyone dying, but still: time to look forward to something else! What will we do when we are in Level 3? It’s a place where I suspect that we…
For those of us in the business, there is no doubt about this: construction work is an Essential service. Trouble is, at present, it is not being recognised as one by the otherwise excellent Government lockdown. Let’s look at what are classified as essential services at present: Hospital workers – doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers, etc – yes yes and yes. We all need to live and…
After a long conversation with an old friend the other night, having reconnected since, you know, Covid and all, my friend gave me a challenge. Assuming, as Andy Foster said on the Fish yesterday, that we need to think about how the post-Covid world is going to be different from the pre-Covid world, then my friend challenged me to think about: what do I want to…
Early indications this morning are that Let’s Get Wellington Moving has chosen Pods as the main public transportation device for Wellington moving forward. Not originally considered to be a front runner option for Rapid Public Transport, with Light Rail and Bendy Electric Buses initially considered more suitable, it is thought that the intervention of the Covid-19 virus has altered the minds of the LGWM crew. “POD…
Not sure how much Julie Andrews approved of this – I’d like to think that she would give it a big tick. People are getting very inventive. Have you heard the Coronian Rhapsody? Or the new version of Madonna’s Vogue?