Category: HISTORY
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Lighthouse visit
Coach Trip to Pencarrow Lighthouse – New Zealand Historic Places Trust When: Saturday 26 Feb (postponement day for wet weather, 27 Jan) Duration: 3-4 hours Price/Cost: $25pp $15 for children 5yrs-15yrs Free for children under 5yrs (if not taking up a seat on the bus) Meet at: Two meeting points to meeting for the coach…
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Pencarrow – to the Lighthouse
Coach Trip to Pencarrow Lighthouse – New Zealand Historic Places Trust When: Saturday 26 Feb (postponement day for wet weather, 27 Jan)
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Plishke
//Adam Art Gallery and the School of Architecture at Victoria University of Wellington presents The Problem of Plischke Symposium Saturday 19 February 2011 11am – 5pm Alan MacDiarmid Building, Rooms 102 + 104 Kelburn Campus, Victoria University of Wellington Thank you for your registration to this free event. Please find attached the programme outline for…
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Empire State Building vs Bhurj Khalifa: World’s Greatest Building
For years, when asked to name the greatest building in the world, most people would have said the Empire State Building. But has that mantle now passed to the Bhurj Khalifa (formerly the Bhurj Dubai)? For 40 years, the Empire State Building stood as the tallest building in the world and a symbol of…
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Roger Hay
Roger Hay, Architect, long time Arch Centre member, recent Fellow of the NZIA, tireless battler for the rights of the disabled and a scourge of incompetent officialdom everywhere, has died aged 76. Roger will be missed by many for his tireless championing of the rights of the disabled and for his work on revising the…
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… the beauty of arcades …
There’s something pretty wonderful about St Kevin’s Arcade on K’ Rd in Auckland. I think the coffee even tastes better because of the intricacy of the architectural space.
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Just Manners …
Just as Manners Street is being ripped up (with the sort of silliness which means that the sunny side of the street will have the smallest width of footpath) it’s perhaps timely to have a think about the role the road has played in Wellington’s history.
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SuperLink – Transport 2000
# HISTORYWe’ve recently been given a copy of the SuperLink proposal by Transport 2000, which was a well thought-out proposal for Light Rail transport in Wellington. All rights are reserved to the original authors : Daryl Cockburn, Brent Efford, & Kerry Wood for Transport 2000, and the Inter-Professional Group. We are very grateful for the chance…
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Green Building – boston styles
I promised these some time ago, so here they are – a wee photo essay on green building in Boston – back when it was so much easier to be green (so to speak)… Sorry I can’t get my hands on more heritage info (for those that are interested) – it appears that there is…