Capture: Two Tales of a City
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Conceptional Art on Madras Street Tuam Street Corner.
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A Timber Frame Construction on Manchester Street will be home to a department in the Inner City educational precinct. Apparently housing a branch of WETA on the top floor and a bank on ground level.
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On St Asaph Street Madras Corner.
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Hebe, in reply to
Yeah that building is intriguing. I'm no builder but it looks like its made from laminated timber beam-thingys. The beam-thingys appear to have engineered gaps in each beem -- I guess this is to allow for bouncing and swaying. I was told it was for the high-tech hub to create another pod of downtown doingness along with the Polytech and Alice's.
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Hebe, in reply to
Two bulls and one piano
A metaphoric artwork if there ever was one with those bulls.. This town am the Wild East now.
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Detail of framing.
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Gudrun Gisela, in reply to
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Gudrun Gisela, in reply to
What i learned from an orange clad worker bee is: this will be the Enterprise Precinct & Innovation Campus. WETA will be part of it .
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Hebe, in reply to
Someone way back in a thread was asking for more bovines in the city! Those sculptues are amazing. I love this art-anarchy in the spaces.
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Hebe, in reply to
WETA: that will be good, especially for the young creatives.
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Geoff Lealand, in reply to
I was intrigued by this building under construction. So new and fresh in a landscape of dust and rubble. Perhaps Christchurch needs many more wooden buildings; stone and concrete no longer seem the right materials,
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Islander, in reply to
Geoff- first settlers could use stone, but almost always used wood & other vegetation for building…
We can now make wonderful constructions of wood (almost totally fireproof) that will ride earthquakes. Wood is renewable- and tempered glass and fibre glass
can provide maximum light-what the hell does stone & concrete have to offer to future generations except ruin & wreck?
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Gudrun Gisela, in reply to
Yes Geoff we do need more buildings first of all thou to house the dispossessed and give them some kind of semblance in this city. I have difficulty to see the delay in getting this done. Wood is the way to go and natural stone but by the look of things concrete slab is the way this city will be rising . I have lost interest in taking pictures of chicken coops that are popping up like confetti.
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Wooden buildings also sequester carbon; concrete is eco-unfriendly because of the large amount of energy used to make it.
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Current building and consenting processes and staff are more likely to be familiar with concrete tilt-slab construction. Its cheapness and convenience for developers means you'll see more and more of it so long as their interests are put at the front of the queue. Forget that eco-city. Real ambitious.
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Hebe, in reply to
Forget that eco-city
Agreed. that's why I see the bulls sculpture as metaphoric and horribly apt for our new city. Never mind; most of us manage perfectly well without a CBD most of the time. Day-to-day we live in our villages .
I hear tell of old hands talking of a 50-year time frame to get the central city fully functional again. Some of the fast-up buildings are only the first wave of construction; they are planned to be replaced in relatively short (10-20 years) timeframes. I wish we could think that an eco-city is going to happen but the signs are not good.
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I'd be fine with more temporary development in the CBD, shipping containers and prefabs, until good-quality new structures can be made. Otherwise it's going to be appalling!!
Edit: the Uni's done quite well with the prefab "village" they've made on the sports-field, to give office-space to those departments whose buildings are currently unusable. It's tidy and neat and fit for purpose.
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Rob Stowell, in reply to
the Uni’s done quite well with the prefab “village” they’ve made on the sports-field, to give office-space to those departments whose buildings are currently unusable. It’s tidy and neat and fit for purpose.
And importantly: it’s deliberately short-term (which probably means medium-term 4-6 years :( ) and the buildings can be moved and re-purposed (without David’s nightmare, one hopes.)
Tilt-slab, not so much :( The re-build is shaping up for some disappointments, I fear. -
Lilith __, in reply to
it’s deliberately short-term
It's not like Chch people aren't used to making do!
I had to go for a blood test a while back and the lab was shoehorned into the back of a medical practice (their usual building had fallen down). When my turn came, I was led into a very small room. I joked to the venepucturist, "Wow, this is just like a cupboard!"
She sighed and said, "It is a cupboard."
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
And importantly: it’s deliberately short-term (which probably means medium-term 4-6 years :( ) and the buildings can be moved and re-purposed . . .
The Forfar Courts City Housing complex in St Albans houses mostly retirees in relocated former athlete accommodation from the 1974 Games village. CityCare has kept the units in good nick, and the insulation upgrade of a few years back would seem to indicate that they're good for years to come.
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Rob Stowell, in reply to
I’d bet the university’s tin-can prefabs aren’t that good :) But I’d relocate one for a dwelling if the price was right.
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Gudrun Gisela, in reply to
lol
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The bull and his piano are attracting quiet a few comments.
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Situated on Madras Street they are the latest attraction in Shake City.
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