Streetview is a fine idea, but a Streetview in time would be great.

Ta-da!. (Hat tip: my friend Brent.)

I agree with John that they are an indictment. There are many design alternatives for that type of site, including inwards-facing precincts – all of which require a council with balls and vision as oppposed to one that sucks up to greedy short-sighted developers.…

For those that don't know Auckland, Hobson Street is the highest ridge in the CBD. And it is lined (littered) with a dozen very tall very cheap high density crap apartment blocks. All of them 'shoebox' apartments.

And I thought to myself: what a frikken waste of prime real estate.…

And after 150 years of this, you end up with Auckland.

I was paused at the lights on Cook Street the other day, just outside Police Central, and took a moment to take in the view up and down Hobson Street.

For those that don't know Auckland, Hobson Street is the…

Streetview is a fine idea, but a Streetview in time would be great.

There was a cool exhibition at the Auckland City Art Gallery about a decade back called "Panoramas of Auckland" which was a pre-digital version of that, featuring paintings back to the 18th century, photos and a film…

Speaking of photography, it's been a recent hobby of mine to collect a digital photo essay of Wellington's evolving cityscape, for better or worse.

Streetview is a fine idea, but a Streetview in time would be great.

She said the drawers were chock full of rubber bands, short lengths of…

Testament to a frugal depression era upbringing, I guess. Vege garden…

there's the problem of the earthquake-proofing work

Not in Auckland, there isn't. No excuse at all. We just delight in electing city councillors who regard a heritage building as just another carpark or shoebox waiting for the attentions of a misunderstood property developer. Amazing how many philistines the leafy suburbs…

http://s79.photobucket.com/albums/j132/deepred6502/Wellington%20-%20A%20City%20In%20Progress/

I have much the same affection for a few items in my parent's/grandparent's houses; particularly a battered and slightly degraded copper saucepan... I covert it desparately, I'd steal it but I know it'd be missed instantly.

Mum keeps advertising the fact that she doesn't know whom to leave her mother's…

I don't think he necessarily does it in order to look at them again in the future – it is simply part of his way of looking.

That's how I feel about taking photographs. I have gone through periods where I would take my camera out every day for a…

It's very easy to demolish a building of a style that's current unfashionable. It's usually stuff that's between 30 and 60 years old – it's not new enough to still be valuable, but not old enough to be considered worth preserving on historical grounds.

Decades later the regret, the "what…

I also remember the art deco buildings that were demolished pre-art deco mania and I wonder if they regret it or have simply erased such foolishness from their memories.

It's very easy to demolish a building of a style that's current unfashionable. It's usually stuff that's between 30 and 60…

How in hell does an Italian immigrant have an infinitely greater, and infuriatingly more lyrical, grasp of the English language than me, a third-generation local with British heritage?

Too right. I say boycott Tiso – too clever by far!

Mum's house is full of such objects, thanks in part to…

He ruins (and enriches) my day on a regular basis the bastard.

enjoy milan. i'm sure the flood of old ghosts will be kind.