Comments for Eye of the Fish https://eyeofthefish.org A wide-angle view of architecture, urban design and life in Wellington Sat, 16 May 2026 23:51:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Comment on Adaptive Reuse – a Symposium by starkive https://eyeofthefish.org/adaptive-reuse-a-symposium/#comment-146906 Sat, 16 May 2026 23:51:12 +0000 https://eyeofthefish.org/?p=9451#comment-146906 Just attended this event along with 50 or more others. With the exception of one rather ramshackle session near the end on Saturday, it was a great experience – a huge range of input from multiple places and viewpoints. Wellington architects (and Wellington in general) need more of this. All power to the Architectural Centre!

]]> Comment on Adaptive Reuse – a Symposium by nemo https://eyeofthefish.org/adaptive-reuse-a-symposium/#comment-146887 Thu, 07 May 2026 04:51:39 +0000 https://eyeofthefish.org/?p=9451#comment-146887 I’ve been adaptively re-using this website…. its been going for years !

]]> Comment on Adaptive Reuse – a Symposium by starkive https://eyeofthefish.org/adaptive-reuse-a-symposium/#comment-146881 Wed, 06 May 2026 01:27:42 +0000 https://eyeofthefish.org/?p=9451#comment-146881 In reply to nemo.

Well, I’ll certainly be there…

]]> Comment on Adaptive Reuse – a Symposium by nemo https://eyeofthefish.org/adaptive-reuse-a-symposium/#comment-146880 Wed, 06 May 2026 00:47:41 +0000 https://eyeofthefish.org/?p=9451#comment-146880 In reply to nemo.

But not if I am going to be the only one there….

]]> Comment on Adaptive Reuse – a Symposium by nemo https://eyeofthefish.org/adaptive-reuse-a-symposium/#comment-146879 Wed, 06 May 2026 00:47:13 +0000 https://eyeofthefish.org/?p=9451#comment-146879 Anyone going ? I’m keen ! See you there ?

]]> Comment on Wet and wild windy watery Wellington by nemo https://eyeofthefish.org/wet-and-wild-windy-watery-wellington/#comment-146873 Mon, 04 May 2026 04:13:41 +0000 https://eyeofthefish.org/?p=9423#comment-146873 Oh give us a break !!! https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360974054/two-waves-wild-weather-nz-set-rain-wind-and-rough-weekend

I’ve had enough of this shit !

]]> Comment on Wet and wild windy watery Wellington by Kumara Republic https://eyeofthefish.org/wet-and-wild-windy-watery-wellington/#comment-146872 Sun, 03 May 2026 04:40:19 +0000 https://eyeofthefish.org/?p=9423#comment-146872 Yay for managerialist micro-management.
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]]> Comment on Wet and wild windy watery Wellington by nemo https://eyeofthefish.org/wet-and-wild-windy-watery-wellington/#comment-146864 Thu, 30 Apr 2026 03:35:40 +0000 https://eyeofthefish.org/?p=9423#comment-146864 In reply to nemo.

Oh please!! Who are they trying to kid? “relocating native skinks, inflation, moving fibre ducts and upgrading wastewater infrastructure” more than doubled the cost? Bloody skinks?!?! I mean, it is a piece of grass / wasteland at the side of the motorway, the skinks were not the problem ! More likely the complete incompetence of the Project Manager and the Contractor ! I was driving past there almost daily (ie twice daily!) and they were the most dis-organised bunch of idiots I’ve seen for quite some time. A bunch of 4th formers could have done better with a toy spade in a sand-pit ! Pffist!

]]> Comment on Wet and wild windy watery Wellington by Henry Filth https://eyeofthefish.org/wet-and-wild-windy-watery-wellington/#comment-146863 Wed, 29 Apr 2026 23:43:26 +0000 https://eyeofthefish.org/?p=9423#comment-146863 In reply to nemo.

From the article in The Post:

“With enough room for three Olympic swimming pools of wastewater, the tank between State Highway 59 and the rail lines had a $48 million budget when construction began in 2022.

Subsequent issues – relocating native skinks, inflation, moving fibre ducts and upgrading wastewater infrastructure – pushed it to $97m.”

]]> Comment on Wet and wild windy watery Wellington by nemo https://eyeofthefish.org/wet-and-wild-windy-watery-wellington/#comment-146862 Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:48:16 +0000 https://eyeofthefish.org/?p=9423#comment-146862 In reply to nemo.

Oh no – that IS depressing. I thought it had tripled in budget from $10 mill to $30 mill, not going from $30 to $99 million ! I drive past it often – how on earth could that boring concrete box cost a hundred million ! It is just concrete and steel reinforcing and lots of waterproofing layers – there is no earthly reason why that should triple to that astronomical cost. I wonder if the PCC have got the guts to publish a cost-breakdown?

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