Every week there are an increasing number of people cycling around Auckland. A significant group use the cycleway from Te Atatu to the city each day.
Built in 1935 on Franklin Road, Ponsonby, the complex is significant as an early example of Functionalist-influenced apartments.
Over the next 25 or 30 years Auckland must squeeze in nearly half a million new citizens into the existing city boundaries or sprawl even further over fertile farmland on the city fringes. The Auckland Council decided that world’s best practice was to stop sprawling out and go up instead.
Step back in time to one of the most tumultuous periods in history and experience the rumble and roar of war first-hand at MOTAT’s Military Day on Sunday 6 March.
Caci Viaduct is Caci’s newest central city clinic. Conveniently located in The Kauri Timber Building on Graham Street in the CBD with an alternative access from Fanshawe Street.
Inspiring for her own design aesthetic as well as her willingness to – and joy in – promote the work of other fashion names, Vicki Taylor is the sort of woman that we love to acknowledge as a local.
As a result of community consultation feedback, Jennifer Ward and her team are exploring how the site at 254 Ponsonby Road can be developed into a whole of site open space, for the community and by the community.
For once I’m sitting on the fence. Heritage advocates will hope it’s barbed wire and that my nether regions are shredded, while Ponsonby developers will think I’m coming to my senses.
Fashion history will be promenading in the city this summer with The Shrinking Swimsuit exhibition, which is part of the annual Heart of the City event 10 Days of Fashion in the City.
A rare opportunity exists to set up a community hand paper-making studio/mill or your own art/teaching set up. For 25 years artist Jude Graveson has been teaching and running workshops in fibre and paper-making along with producing her own exhibition and studio artwork.
The 2016 Cuisine Artisan Awards winners have just been announced and local bakery Bonnie Goods has been named a winner for their Edinburgh-inspired Canterbury Linseed Oatcakes.
In 2012 a worried British dad made a film that showed how excessive screen time is luring children away from a vital human resource: Nature. David Bond wrote, directed and featured in Project Wild Thing, an award winning film that was selected for 54 International film festivals.