Month: July 2011

  • The Urban Dream Brokerage

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    Friday 29th July, 6pm Illot Theatre, Wellington Town Hall   Three property owners and managers, four artists and an engaged audience are coming together to discuss the question: how can vacant commercial space be more creatively utilised to provide a more vital inner-city?  

  • The Urban Dream Brokerage

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      Illot Theatre, Wellington Town Hall Friday 29th July, 6pm   Three property owners and managers, four artists and an engaged audience are coming together to discuss the question: how can vacant commercial space be more creatively utilised to provide a more vital inner-city? You’re invited to attend The Urban Dream Brokerage, a live art…

  • Memorial Car Park

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    Since the unveiling of the NZTA schemes for around the Basin now almost a month ago, we have been having a good look at their back issues – the NZTA publications that they have been storing up away from prying eyes. Now, however, a good number of them have been published and are available on…

  • Option X: FAQs

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    Thanks again for all your questions.  We’ll up date this page to address questions as they come in, and supply new drawings etc. to explain things as needed.  Here’s an initial batch of questions and answers to start with.   PUBLIC TRANSPORT The dedicated public transport lanes (buses or light rail) are in the middle…

  • Lessons from Bris-Vegas

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    Visiting Brisbane amid the excitement of the Basin discussions, I was expecting to see a city-sized example of the worst in traffic design.  To my surprise

  • Option X: plus

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    Thanks for all the comments so far.  Here are a couple more images which might answer some questions and may create some more.  The first image is looking from the North-east side towards the Carillon, which shows conceptually how the levels work.  This corner will need more design (obviously) especially regarding the structures underneath, but…

  • It’s just not cricket

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    Being keen on cricket I was shocked and amazed to see the article in this morning’s DomPost  featuring, if the story is correct, a piece of horse-trading going on between the NZTA and the Basin Reserve Trust.  The story raises a number of rather obvious, questions: Is the idea of an overpass so detestable to…

  • The Public needs a real choice: Option X

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    The NZTA have proposed options for redeveloping the roading of the Basin Reserve.  But these are not really options.

  • Overpass: Dream or reality?

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    I love a beautiful and well considered bridge! Indeed, the designers amongst us imagine them as streamlined and un-cluttered, perhaps with translucent edge zones, no barriers or signs, no streetlights, slender support structures that simply branch out of the ground…

  • Hannah France, Japan, and 65 years Old!

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    School of Architecture – come join us celebrate 65 years, and a lecture by our Japan travel award student Hannah France, who will be talking about her trip to the forgotten corners of Japan. We’ll also be talking about teh Basin, and celebrating the 65th birthday of Arch Centre

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