Public Address | Cafe | Random Play: Stop! In the Name of Love!! https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=139925#post139925 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=139925#post139925 Charging! Clear!
just restarting an old thread...

here's something that would look good on the waterfront – if they can just build something that
we can get Eno to project on
(no Telecom ads thanks!)

]]> Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:09:16 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138666#post138666 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138666#post138666

Just an up date on The Arts Centre in Christchurch.
Yesterday a closed 'workshop' was held at the CCC where submitter Rod Carr has the exclusive ear of council.

I also note that the Press story didn't clarify whether Ken Franklin (AC Director) or any representative of the Arts Centre…

]]> Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:15:22 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138665#post138665 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138665#post138665

Ocktoberfest.
They seem to to do a mega party, and every year, not a one off.

how about every Febrewery 6th
we have a large culturally
inclusive "White Hangi" day?
;- )

]]> Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:02:21 +1300 Just thinking https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138633#post138633 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138633#post138633 All developments to date have past through our current crop of planners & Architects.

Just an up date on The Arts Centre in Christchurch.
Yesterday a closed 'workshop' was held at the CCC where submitter Rod Carr has the exclusive ear of council.
He obviously had more to say than he…

]]> Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:19:23 +1300 Steve Curtis https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138564#post138564 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138564#post138564 Yeah right , thats all we need is someone looking down their nose at the provincials.
Is someone who clearly' hasnt a clue' about how we live is going to provide advice on urban planning?

This is becoming more of a farce than I ever imagined

]]> Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:25:29 +1300 Mrs Skin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138461#post138461 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138461#post138461 To be fair, the Auckland City Council urban designers seem to have a pretty good idea about what they're up against. I heard – I think it was the head chap – on the radio a while ago.

He'd flown in from South Africa or somewhere to interview for the…

]]> Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:57:34 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138456#post138456 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138456#post138456 be part of the solution...
Senior Urban Designer wanted for Auckland...
applications close Nov 10

]]> Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:32:10 +1300 Sofie Bribiesca https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138451#post138451 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138451#post138451 Our children will thank us for it. At this point I would like to apologise to RB with my tiny bit of negative attitude toward "party central" but I think Paul L is right, and so it seems were some of us anyway.Plus Brownlee and McCully on the panel? pileeeze!… ]]> Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:00:11 +1300 Paul Litterick https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138440#post138440 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138440#post138440 Queens Wharf redesign haltedOur children will thank us for it. ]]> Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:33:33 +1300 3410 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138428#post138428 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138428#post138428 Queens Wharf redesign halted

Plans for a development at Queen's Wharf before the 2011 Rugby World Cup have been put on hold.

The winner of a design competition for the project was supposed to decided today, but Auckland Mayor John Banks and the Auckland Regional Council chairman Mike Lee were not…

]]> Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:37:33 +1300 Stuart Coats https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138262#post138262 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138262#post138262 Off-topic....

Graham, are you worried that people might think your book is a detailed account of the Balloon Boy saga?

]]> Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:45:30 +1300 Kumara Republic https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138250#post138250 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138250#post138250 Speaking of the Sydney Opera House, Murphy's Law made its presence felt all the way. Its chief architect quit in disgust, and the entire project ended up 14 years behind schedule and 10 times over budget. Yet it still got built in the end.

I suspect even in Australia they…

]]> Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:46:59 +1300 Steve Curtis https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138239#post138239 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138239#post138239 Took up the Challenge from Graham after his comment .."Sorry pal and with all due respect, but you you might need to get into a bigger world than the one you live in."
Why not have a look at one of the places of the 'world' I have not seen…

]]> Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:17:29 +1300 Fraser Gardyne https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138192#post138192 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138192#post138192 Hi Graham,

I agree broadly with your points however I totally disagree regarding opening the competition up to international architects.

The problem is not that we don't have great architects, WE DO HAVE GREAT ARCHITECTS. It's that the whole basis for the competition is flawed.

The problem with competitions like…

]]> Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:30:17 +1300 Steve Barnes https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138186#post138186 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138186#post138186 Call me paranoid but...
Britomart = railhead
Wharf = well... wharf
Cruise ships = Prison Hulks
Can anyone else see a pattern here?
And then there's the Container Terminal
Containers = Cells
Scary
I said you should be wary of the National Government.

]]> Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:02:20 +1300 Mark Graham https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138175#post138175 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138175#post138175 I would like to make a suggestion. A concept that I hope will spark the public consciousness and engender excitement and passion.

I propose a Centre for Maori and Polynesian Culture – Te Atea.

It is a scandal that the largest Polynesian city in the world (ignoring the possibility of…

]]> Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:36:53 +1300 Sofie Bribiesca https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138110#post138110 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138110#post138110 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:22:07 +1300 Sofie Bribiesca https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138108#post138108 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138108#post138108

Don't you think you're being just a tiny bit negative there, Sofie?

No ;)

The Irish fans will travel up from their team's first match in New Plymouth during the first week

See! there's the first problem!

And you won't want them in Kingsland.

Yes ,there we agree, let them…

]]> Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:15:33 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138097#post138097 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138097#post138097

Chasing you around the threads here, Russell but I was just wondering what Media 7 is doing this week (I know you are at SPADA next week--will see you there)

We're doing body image and Bill Francis.

]]> Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:10:49 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138096#post138096 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138096#post138096

True, but may as well be a caravan park then.Hell, we know it can be driven on. It can handle the weight. Don't see much point in a journey all the way back to a a water front, when festivities start round the corner.

But that's only on Eden Park…

]]> Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:10:11 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138094#post138094 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138094#post138094 Looks like we are, troublingly, on a wavelength with John Banks ...

Auckland City Mayor John Banks is considering canning the Queens Wharf upgrade amid growing concerns the city will inherit another mediocre development.

"One of the options could be to do next to nothing," he said yesterday.

]]> Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:59:51 +1300 Sofie Bribiesca https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138063#post138063 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138063#post138063

I think we lose sight

True, but may as well be a caravan park then.Hell, we know it can be driven on. It can handle the weight. Don't see much point in a journey all the way back to a a water front, when festivities start round the corner. Plus…

]]> Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:29:42 +1300 Geoff Lealand https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138058#post138058 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138058#post138058 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:11:11 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138056#post138056 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138056#post138056

I wouldn't go down to the waterfront for Rugby. What, do they think these folk are thick?

I think that they're marshalling the campervan crowds downtown, which makes sense — you'd rather have them there because they'll want to party every night, and there's neither the capacity or the tolerance…

]]> Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:56:07 +1300 Sofie Bribiesca https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138054#post138054 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138054#post138054

which is why the brewerys are opening as many bars there as fast as they can.

Well, the Kingslander, been there for quite some time but The Macs Neighbourhood Bar is actually owned by the 3(?) guys who own Wagamama. So they are not silly eh? I think that is…

]]> Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:29:42 +1300 Sofie Bribiesca https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138052#post138052 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138052#post138052

I love Auckland. It breaks my heart to see what a shallow political/sporting/populist agenda is doing to my city.

Hear hear! I will plug again these people who I have much respec' for. Yes please, anything they do would be just fine. How's this for
outside the square

]]> Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:07:00 +1300 Tom Semmens https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138050#post138050 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138050#post138050 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:52:19 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138031#post138031 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138031#post138031 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:14:55 +1300 Steve Curtis https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138026#post138026 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138026#post138026 The Sydney Opera House is not a wharf. It was a headland, which previously contained a tram barn.
But this makes my point, they started from a cultural centre, which they needed and found a suitable site.
Here we have a wharf , one of many, and the reason there…

]]> Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:09:32 +1300 Graham Reid https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138019#post138019 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138019#post138019 UMMMMMMMM . . . . Sydney?
You have never heard about the "Opera House"?
The last great 20th century work of genuinely iconic [ and i don't mean in that mundane NZ use of the word "iconic": aka Dave Dobbyn, Marc Ellis] national symboliism.
I'm thinking public architecture which might…

]]> Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:52:57 +1300 3410 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138015#post138015 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138015#post138015

Martin Scorsese's doco on Bob Dylan (which screens on Sky this week)

It's on ONe! (Sat., 10:35pm)

]]> Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:38:28 +1300 Rich of Observationz https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138012#post138012 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138012#post138012 For many of us, we'd like local body politicians to deliver basic, decent services at reasonable cost and not fuck things up with noise limits on city bars and the like.

However, that isn't good enough for the people that run for office. They want to build *iconic* structures so…

]]> Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:32:43 +1300 Steve Curtis https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138009#post138009 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138009#post138009 There is no great mass of people thronging to get to the end of Queens Wharf.
It was an ill conceived idea to use the area for a party central in the first place , lets not turn a bad idea into a massive mistake by throwing more money at…

]]> Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:21:12 +1300 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138008#post138008 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?p=138008#post138008 Discussion from blog post.

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