Tag: Wellington City Council
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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…
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Is architecture at odds with politics?
# CommentIn a rare moment in April, I bought a copy of The Economist, but it was not the obvious architecturally related homeownership article which caught my eye – but rather it was pages 63 and 64, and an article titled: “There was a lawyer, an engineer and a politician …”Well spotted – no architect in…