Ashburton’s enduring clock tower

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  The next time you have cause to drive through Ashburton on State Highway 1 take a turn across the central rail line. If driving south,...

Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid: 1950-2016

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Architect Dame Zaha Hadid died on March 31, aged 65. Her subsequent obituaries have generated as much controversy as did her life works. Royal Institute...

Holcim’s Timaru Dome

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In October last year the ceremonial groundbreaking took place at the Port of Timaru for Holcim New Zealand’s new $50 million cement...

The bridges of Møre og Romsdal County

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  Tourists come from across the globe just to drive it. Popularly, it has been dubbed “The Road to Nowhere”. It is Norway’s Atlantic Ocean Road....

France’s Palais du Louvre

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Among its riches it houses Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, as well as many choice items looted by Napoleon during his years of conquest in...

Christchurch’s Hagley Oval Pavilion

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A southern-style stoush had been sparked when New Zealand was chosen, along with Australia, as host for the 2015 World Cricket Cup. Post-quake Christchurch...

Christchurch‚s Botanic Gardens visitor centre

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It was by chance I stumbled across Christchurch’s first civic building to rise from the ashes of the quakes. I had been meandering alongside the...

Tekapo’s astronomical analemma

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Dr Kerry Rodgers has clearly been out in the midday sun for far too long . . . Analemma: a plot or graph...

A tale of two churches

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Dr Kerry Rodgers has a South Canterbury epiphany Christchurch’s Anglican Cathedral and Catholic Basilica were not the only Canterbury churches to suffer damage from the...

The colossus of Leshan

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While watching a documentary called Rediscovering the Yangtze, I found — as a geologist in a former incarnation — the geomorphology mind blowing. There...