Tag: New York
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The architecture of tragedy: commemorating Pike River?
# CommentThe Pike River Mining disaster has been cited as the worst mining disaster in New Zealand history.
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Apple of my eye
On a recent visit to New York, there were many things that caught my eye, but one store in particular appeared to be attracting a lot of attention. The Apple stores, crisply detailed completely out of glass, is quite a startling construction – architecture that almost isn’t there. Yes, it is glass, but it is…
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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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Video of the Week XXXI: site specific mini-series II
To continue this mini-film festival on Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto is a film of a recent work in New York.
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The Elephant in the Room
Phil Jones‘ talk on last Wednesday (9 Sept 09) presented the idea of shared spaces (also known as naked streets) in the context of the council’s proposal to convert lower Cuba St into a shared space.
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Wind, billowing skirts, and Italian property investors…
Despite being talked up by hardy locals and the odd poet (and I mean odd), one of Wellington’s least endearing qualities is the incessant wind. The Encyclopedia of Chicago, that other famous Windy City, even attempts to shed the notion of Chicago being particular windy (in the climatic sense), by evoking: Wellington, New Zealand, where it…