Posts by Sacha
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what happened to "6 balls and you're over"?
Excalibur
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That'd be a shame
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Oh, and we find our own Don Draper to sell it to the world and to ourselves. Though preferably with less collateral damage.
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I would like to see the Tank Farm say something about Auckland's place as the largest polynesian city on the planet.
About navigating, about storytelling, weaving the past and the present. About the future, learning and improving our people and building a proud prosperous place on the world stage.
I see a full multimedia performing arts campus. A mixture of outdoor and indoor stages and performance spaces spilling into parkland and to the lapping sea. Accommodation and other services for visiting performers and students. High-value creative businesses providing attractive jobs and export opportunities. A fully-wired learning centre with studios and teaching spaces attracting connection and experts from all over the world. To learn from us as well as share what they know. For cultures to reach each other in this diverse place.
To create story, to share it in many forms as music, moving image, dance, words - and find new ways to touch hearts, minds and souls.
Surely we deserve at least that rather than another timid concrete box for our city's long line of unambitious born-to-rule business yokels to turn another buck selling ice cream to tourists.
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Did someone say carousel?
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Kyle, braying dunnies is sooo last decade. I'd pick unironic metal trees as the latest ridiculously well-funded artistic junket. You know, Welli Public Libary, Britomart, Supreme Court - all just long term installations commenting obliquely on the relationship of nature to bustling urbanism (and the surrealism of the underlying metaphor)..
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Someone call in a statistician..
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Speaking of bolting on new bits, found this video flythrough of the new Auckland Art Gallery (with an entrance canopy that looks suspiciously nikau-ish):
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Too delicious. the Auckland Herald has a moan about Wellington's city centre civic architecture, calling its nikau palm theme "desperate kitsch" and the new Supreme court exterior "vulgar". Probably pining for some retreaded ivy-clad private school Northern Club yesteryear, or that wonderful integration between its own city's major buildings.
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Christchurch's CBD doesn't really extend to the Four Aves all round, but yes you'd expect a higher proportion of residents in an area would make it feel safer. And having lived in the centre of both cities, it doesn't.