Posts Tagged ‘Wellington City Council’
Sunday, March 5th, 2017
Tomorrow night (Monday 6 March) is another public meeting about the fate of the VUW Karori Campus. (more…)
Tags:Bill Alington, Bill Toomath, Brutalism, brutalist architecture, Chris Brooke White, CIT Campus, Donald Street, Heritage New Zealand, Heritage NZ, Karori, Karori Teachers' College, Ministry of Education, NZHPT, NZIA, S. William Toomath, Victoria University, VUW, WCC, Wellington City Council, Wellington High School, Wellington Teachers College, William Toomath
Posted in AC History, Architectural History, Heritage, Heritage Buildings, HISTORY | Comments Closed
Thursday, November 17th, 2016
Stephenson and Turner‘s elegant Imperial Chemical Industries (I.C.I.) House now stands in doubt, (more…)
Tags:61 Molesworth St, Bates Smart McCutcheon, Deloitte House, Futuna Trust, ICI House, Jim Allen, Karori, Rankine & Hill, Stephenson & Turner, Wellington City Council
Posted in Architectural History, Heritage Buildings | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, September 27th, 2016
On Saturday morning (10 September 2016) on The Nation, the Social Housing Minister, Paula Bennett, claimed that she was doing everything “humanly possible” (more…)
Tags:Alan Johnson, Canterbury earthquake, Crown limousines, Drug Foundation, earthquake prone, Environment Court, Golden Mile, Gordon Wilson Flats, Hamilton East Community Trust v Hamilton City Council, HNZC, homelessness, Hometown Boomtown, Housing New Zealand, Housing NZ, IEP, Initial Evaluation Procedure, methamphetamine, Michael Fowler, NBS, New Building Standard, New Zealand Society for Engineering, NZ Society for Engineering, NZSEE, Paula Bennett, road toll, Ross Bell, Salvation Army, Social Housing Minister, Terrace Flats, The Nation, Victoria University, VUW, WCC, Wellington, Wellington City Council, Wellington Urban Motorway
Posted in HOUSING | Comments Closed
Saturday, August 27th, 2016
The current story of the Gordon Wilson Flats is perhaps not too different from that of the Hunter Building in the 1970s and 80s, (more…)
Tags:"Hunter ideas" competition, Central Terrace, Friends of Hunter, Gordon Moller, Grahame Anderson, Helen Tippett, historic places trust, Hunter Building, Ian Athfield, Ian Mune, Jeff Hunt, Jim McMillan, Labour government, Leone Harkness, Margaret Neilsen, Michael Fowler, Patrick MacNee, Rachel Barrowman, Rakine Brown courtyard, Ray Bradbury Theatre, Robert Muldoon, Victoria University, Victoria University of Wellington, Von Zedlitz Building, Von Zedlitz rockets, VUW, WCC, Wellington City Council
Posted in Architectural History, Heritage, Heritage Buildings, HISTORY | 1 Comment »
Sunday, November 1st, 2015
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. (more…)
Tags:Basin Reserve, David Walmsley, Environment Court, fences, Frank Kitts Park, Guy Marriage, harbour view, High Court, Hyde Park, Memorial Park, mobile phones, option X, Paul Walker, Peter Aitchison, private space, Public Space, Roseneath, smart phones, temporary fences, VUW crits 2015, WCC, Wellington City Council
Posted in Basin Reserve issues, Comment | 1 Comment »
Friday, October 7th, 2011
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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Tags:Basin Flyover, Basin Reserve, Dominion Post, DomPost, NZTA, option X, WCC, Wellington City Council
Posted in Basin Reserve issues, Comment, News, RANTING, Transport, urban design | 11 Comments »
Monday, July 4th, 2011
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done (more…)
Tags:Alexander Pope, Basin Reserve, C E Stowe, consultation, NZTA, sense of place, WCC, Wellington City Council
Posted in Basin Reserve issues, Comment, RANTING, Transport, urban design | 4 Comments »
Boundary issues
Sunday, November 1st, 2015I 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. (more…)
Tags:Basin Reserve, David Walmsley, Environment Court, fences, Frank Kitts Park, Guy Marriage, harbour view, High Court, Hyde Park, Memorial Park, mobile phones, option X, Paul Walker, Peter Aitchison, private space, Public Space, Roseneath, smart phones, temporary fences, VUW crits 2015, WCC, Wellington City Council
Posted in Basin Reserve issues, Comment | 1 Comment »