99 Quay Street, Auckland, turns 100
In the hurly burly that has cluttered our year to date, including the teething pains of a Super City, sundry occupations of assorted CBDs,...
Dunedin’s Canny Carnegie centre
Of the 18 libraries gifted to New Zealand by the late Andrew Carnegie, the most lavish was that of the City Of Dunedin. It...
Holcim’s Timaru Dome
In October last year the ceremonial groundbreaking took place at the Port of Timaru for Holcim New Zealand’s new $50 million cement...
Jerusalem’s Wall of Tears
Forty-one years ago the Israeli army occupied Jerusalem. For the first time in nearly two millennia the city was united and back in Jewish...
Our Old Government Buildings
British architect Andrew Waugh recently spoke eloquently on national television as to the virtues of wood, specifically when it comes to rebuilding Christchurch. ...
That awesome wall of China
The Great Wall of China is the world’s longest man-made structure. It runs for over 6350km more or less along the border between northern...
A Dinky-Di 75th . . .
The bridging of Sydney Harbour took 117 years. The notion was first voiced in 1815 by convict and architect-about-town Francis Greenway, who designed many...
Hadrian’s defining wall
The recent celebrations marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall recall that using physical barriers to mark political borders ain’t...
Sydney’s Necropolis Receiving House
In the mid-19th century Sydney had a grave issue. The city had run out of cemetery plots. To resolve the matter, the City Fathers...
I K Brunel’s masterpiece
It was a late autumn day in 1973. We had just left Plymouth and turned a corner on the A38. There it was branded...