Tag: Wellington City Council
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Keeping the museum where it belongs
# BlogBy Stuart Niven, reposted from Scoop August 31, 2026 I may have some deep, symbiotic affiliation with Jeanne d’Arc, that doomed French martyr who pushed against the tide until it engulfed her. But I’m going to go there anyway as Wellington is about to be forced to decide on something dumb that makes no civic…
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Karori Teachers College: VUW public meeting
Tomorrow night (Monday 6 March) is another public meeting about the fate of the VUW Karori Campus.
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ICI House: 61 Molesworth Street
Stephenson and Turner‘s elegant Imperial Chemical Industries (I.C.I.) House now stands in doubt,
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Boundary issues
I was watching crits at VUW last week, and the issue of fences arose in a discussion about one masters’ student’s proposed alternative to stadium design.
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Basin voting
Well, the Council have voted on the city’s official position with respect to central government’s proposed traffic improvements near the Basin Reserve.
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The common ‘sense of place’.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done
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Wellington 2040: A smart green city – a “freakin fantastic” idea
This post is really just a heads-up for those of you who don’t keep up with the Dom-Post (and let’s be honest, they don’t really offer much reason to do so), but here is an article (via stuff.co.nz) that should have some interest for our members: Wellington 2040: A smart green city Although I recommend…
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Another restructure – Should we care?
# CommentIt’s inevitable, given their political nature, that governments (local and central) are subject to “restructuring” more than most institutions. Anyone involved in architecture and urban design in Wellington will have known, for a little while now, that the urban design bits of our city council have been, and are in the middle of, such a…
