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Tag: Wellington

  • Wellington 2040: A smart green city – a “freakin fantastic” idea

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    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…

  • Oxymoronic food: when design matters

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    The other day in the lead up to Easter I bought some hot cross buns.  At home I discovered they had been chocolatified. 

  • Just Manners …

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    Just as Manners Street is being ripped up (with the sort of silliness which means that the sunny side of the street will have the smallest width of footpath) it’s perhaps timely to have a think about the role the road has played in Wellington’s history.

  • SuperLink – Transport 2000

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    We’ve recently been given a copy of the SuperLink proposal by Transport 2000, which was a well thought-out proposal for Light Rail transport in Wellington. All rights are reserved to the original authors : Daryl Cockburn, Brent Efford, & Kerry Wood for Transport 2000, and the Inter-Professional Group. We are very grateful for the chance…

  • Primo Supremo: architectural justice?

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    Opened this week with princely aplomb, the symbol of New Zealand’s self-sufficient justice system, ironically begins its life with Royal approval.

  • On Fish, bridges, Boris, Jonathan, and pack-donkeys

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    Maximus may have been all fish-out-of-water proposing an inhabited viaduct over Wellington’s the Basin Reserve over at Eye of the Fish, but it seems that somebody is reading that blog over in our good old Mother Country… Boris Johnson, Lord Mayor of London no less…

  • Rhythm and ‘cues’

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      Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous                                                          …

  • Video of the Week XIII: algorithmic architecture

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    Design for a hotel in Wellington, New Zealand using algorithmic architecture generated in Max Script, from 2007 by VUW student Daniel Davis… I’ll leave the commentary up to you this time…

  • WCC – ‘design’ competition

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    Posted by the Council last week, this competition is open until the July 3 (details click here): “Entrants are required to design an upgrade to a typical Council housing complex consisting of four bed-sit units, with a focus on making them more practical to live in for everyone, regardless of mobility or age [ie. people…

  • Urban petitions (or the things we care about)…

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    Yay for participatory democracy… Obviously, the demise of our green recycling bins matter, with almost 10 000 signatures already on the Council hosted ePetition (how ick is that particular moniker?), which doesn’t close until May 13. This was one issue that spread like a virus through the pc’s of most Wellingtonians some weeks ago. I am…