Posts by Hebe
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Someone called Hexadecimal Feat. Ingrid Hakanson has done this song. I like it.
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Leigh Russell,
I find the empty sites far less distressing than the piles of collapsed buildings lying around last year. It's different for sure, but there is a sense of "what next" possibility. The view of the Port Hills are opening up all around town: I hadn't realised how the tall buildings separated the hills from the city. Also nature is at work: lots of birds and wildflower patches people have planted, and random seedlings popping up -- trees and weeds.
Islander mentioned a while ago how the sound of birds was deafening in the area before Pakeha settled. I hope to see some return of that connection to the natural world.
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Joe Wylie,
mansion from Psycho roof structures.
Mansard roofs? Horrible cheap roof solutions. Ian is right about the reflecting pool; Greg and sons were sitting by the pool during a big aftershock at the end of 2010; they thought the building was going to fall then.
I hear that Twinkletoes is bringing down the building quickly with no ceremony because it is thought it is perilously close to collapse in even a moderate shake; the aggregate effect of 10,000 plus shocks is telling. -
Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Aggregate pass…Chchch Railway Station 2012
How bad was it after the Quakes and before Demolition? And, was it in the way of the new proposed Convention Centre? Does anyone know?
The clock tower was braced with sheets of ply after the September 2010 ( or was it Boxing Day 2010?), anyway forever ago. The building didn't come down in the February 22 shake but from memory stayed standing but was closed. Demolition started a month or two back and Ian's photo is pretty much what I saw about 5pm today ( It's so weird: I drive past three or four times a day usually yet I can't recall exactly when a huge building like that is wrecked. So many are there one day, gone a month later, and google street view is often more 'real' than the present empty spaces or piles of rubble.) A hotel and retail complex is going down the western end (Hoyts) part of the site, but the Science Alive end isn't settled yet.
I loved that booking hall when I was a kid: the marbled (terrazzo?) floot with its map of New Zealand outlined in brass lines; the big ceiling and the very official ticket offices along the side wall; the lots of big swing doors leading out to the platform; the railcar with its reversible red seats and menacing stripy nose coming in from Greymouth in the evening.
The convention centre is to go in the Square, sitting across Chancery Lane through the Government Life building, and going across Gloucester St and the central library site to the river.
Did you know that the last convention centre cost just under $20 million to build? Our new one will cost $220 million - 11 times as much - but it will only be twice the size. I have yet to see a convincing cost-benefit analysis for that; but hey that doesn't matter. Cera has decreed, and Christchurch ratepayers will pay for it. And which favoured multinational company will be awarded the lease so any profit can be exported straight outta town? The employment for the locals yet again will be low-paid tourism lackey jobs.
Yes, we long-time Christchurch people do know we're being screwed. Our city is not ours any more, exciting as a city rebuild is and the chance to experience it. I feel colonised. Colonised by bossy bureaucrats, ravening big business, opportunists, insurance weasels, and international expats adding to their CVs, all "helping" us.
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to mark taslov,
Beyond the barrier 4
Shands Emporium. Available for rescue I believe.
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Up Front: Or It's Who We're Drinking With..., in reply to Eric Crampton,
Some of the social ills tallied up for alcohol use often come down to the kinds of things that lead people to become heavy drinkers in the first place.
Eric, without getting into any form of implied or stated insult to you, I wish to express how totally I disagree with your theories on alcohol abuse. Those social ills are the symptoms, not the causes, of alcohol abuse.
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Gudrun Gisela,
Thanks Gudrun. I recognise very few people; must be different chi tribes as Lilith alluded to.
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Hard News: The Big 2012 US Election PAS Thread, in reply to Islander,
I wish there was a function wherebye I could put tiny wee pointed teeth inbetween my smiles )
Heh. You beastie you.
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
A fern? Wow.
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Nora Leggs,
I purely loooove all peoples posts!
Brillant evocaztion of spring-coming-summer-So nice to be able to share and swap everyone’s photos and thoughts : )
I like how people on PA go out, or stay home, and share it with the rest of us in other places.