A recent Environment Court ruling seems to me to have the potential to have a real chilling effect on the effectiveness of the ability of Heritage New Zealand to protect heritage places of importance to Maori.
Author: Elizabeth Cox
Heritage News: Risingholme Fire
Christchurch has already lost so much heritage, so the news of the fire at Risingholme is particularly sad. The house was built in 1864 by the parents of William Pember Reeves (1857-1932), and was his family home as he was growing up.
Heritage News: Maurice Clark receives an honour
Heritage ‘hero’ Maurice Clark was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2016 Queen’s Birthday honours list, in recognition to his services to heritage preservation and the construction industry. He has been responsible for a series of heritage preservation projects, including the high-profile Public Trust Building, my personal favourite the old Defence House (now Ministry…
Heritage features in the 2016 Wellington Architecure Awards
Heritage featured strongly in the 2016 Wellington Architecture awards this year, with four great projects by four of the big architecture firms in Wellington.
Heritage news: WCC funding for conservation
Eleven heritage buildings around Wellington have jointly received $274,600 in March 2016 from a funding pool to go towards seismic strengthening work and conservation.
Te Aro Salt Water Baths
Talk by the new ‘Better Te Aro Collective’ of its idea to install a new hot saltwater outdoor pool next to Freyberg Pool made me in think of the old Te Aro salt water baths which once enclosed a section of the harbour in the same position. There are a great set of photos of the…
Heritage News: Mary O’Keeffe’s work at Kapiti
This is a nice story about Mary O’Keeffe’s archaeological work on the Kapiti Coast on the Mackays to Peka Peka Expressway for the NZTA, and the 200 new archaeological sites found during the project, which she says has been the real highlight of her career.
The Jungle Takes Over
This Wellington building had been closed for only 18 months, while it waited for earthquake strengthening, when I took this photo. Clearly it doesn’t take very long for buildings to be taken back into the jungle. A further reminder to me about the importance of day-to-day maintanence of heritage buildings, and about how small, incremental damage can be done to…
Layers of Meaning
Old St Paul’s church in Wellington is about to reach its 150th anniversary. The church has been a big part of my career for the last few years – I first wrote social history of the church for its Conservation Plan concentrating of the active life of the church, then started an on-going project to…
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