Category: urban design
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lanes
As the streets and traffic lanes are changed to make way for the new bus route along Manners Street, footpaths are blocked, familiar traffic islands have disappeared and pedestrians are forced to reconsider how they navigate the city.
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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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architectural moves
I really wanted to embed this video by Diana Wesser but it is disabled for embedding so you’ll just have to follow the link to youtube. Called Dancing Around Architect 1: inside the frame, it is part of a series with 2: office and 3: graffiti, but I think one is best. Wesser is a…
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Good Manners – Just mind your step….
Following the councils decision to ignore everyones advice except from those that agreed with them they have lost no time in commencing the change process in Manners Mall. New pedestrian calming measures have been introduced into the centre of the mall which also perform more than adequately as holding pens for paving contractors looking to…
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Postcard from New York
Tonight, coming at you Live and Direct from New York City, the greatest city in the World… Yes, there are other great cities apart from Wellington, and it’s interesting to compare how the original Gotham city stacks up to our own mini-Manhatten.
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On “How ‘smart growth’ made NZ section prices and housing unaffordable”
It has been a while since property developers and their supporters last came out publicly against contemporary urban planning practices, but yes, it is time to roll your eyes and mutter: “here we go again”. Rodney Dickens, posting on the popular interest.co.nz blog, takes aim at “government-imposed town planning regulations, often dubbed the ‘smart growth’…
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More roads? Less pollution – I don’t think so.
It’s no irony that at the moment when John Key is supposedly at a Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen: City of Cyclists, that the government is poised to increase road building – a 4-lane road from Levin to Wellington – via Transmission Gully or otherwise. While Key is fluffing around on the other side of…
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Fashion offensives
Architecture has historically had a difficult relationship with fashion, and, despite the challenges of the Urbis generation, it continues to perpetrate an image of consistent fundamentals, along with its younger siblings: Urban Design and Town Planning.
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“Is it because rich people own yachts?”
Sometimes riding my bike into work I bemoan the fact that the laws of the sea aren’t replicated in the laws of the road.