Wellington City Council has just released its next round of funding for heritage buildings from its Built Heritage Incentive Fund. It’s great to see the fabulous Futuna Chapel getting a substantial $34,000 for seismic strengthening and conservation work, along with large amounts for two Frederick De Jersy Clere religious buildings: St Gerard’s Monastery, and St Matthias in…
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What’s In A Name?
Today, the Queen Elizabeth II Pukeahu Education Centre was officially opened. This building was once the Home of Compassion Crèche, next to the Basin Reserve. A crèche was established in 1903 by the Sisters of Compassion to care for children whose mothers, often widows or those who had been abandoned by their husbands, needed to work, and did so for…
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 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…
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…
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