2012-02-15 12:52:55 // Esther Goh
Cuts to the public sector saw Wellington's GDP slow to 0.8 percent in 2011, lagging behind national growth of 1.6 percent.
2011-12-12 13:07:30 // Siobhan Leathley
A new economic plan to expand and diversify the city of Wellington has been approved by the mayor and members of the city council.
2011-11-08 11:04:24 // Deirdre Robert
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It’s probably safe to say Wellington Airport’s new international terminal, dubbed 'The Rock', has now picked up enough awards to give the big finger to its critics. Having in the past being likened to a pair of giant pumpkins and even a piece of anatomy belonging to the nether regions, the airport keeps finding awards favour, most recently winning the Transport category at the inaugural Inside awards in Barcelona, part of the prestigious World Architecture Festival.
2011-11-07 11:32:08 // Design Daily Team
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This year's entry numbers for the Wellington Architecture Awards may have been down, but the architecture which was "reassuringly high". All up 16 projects were bestowed with an award, among them the 1950s-designed Lower Hutt Civic Precinct and the already award-laden Wellington Airport international passenger terminal.
2011-09-29 11:13:05 // Design Daily Team
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Last night Wellington City Council unanimously agreed on a long term vision for the city, one that will have sustainability, digital saviness and innovation at its core.
2011-08-05 16:29:39 // Sustain Team
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Wellingtonians have just two weeks left to guide their city to 2040 and beyond as part of the council’s Toward 2040: Smart Green Wellington consultation.
2011-07-07 10:39:49 // Deirdre Robert
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While we can applaud the efforts of those that choose to use reusable nappies, the reality is that disposables are by far and away still the most popular option (and let’s face it, the most convenient). But what if you could compost them? That’s exactly what EnviroComp plans to do in Wellington, and an announcement by the Government that it will contribute $700,000 in grant money to further support the business initiative has provided a valuable booster. But that's not the only big news for the company, which has also announced it will expand operations overseas as part of recent acquisition by the New Zealand office of UK-based facilities services company OCS.
2011-03-31 11:08:12 // Design Daily Team
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Vacant office space in Wellington has been on the rise and a report by commercial and industrial property service provider Darroch doesn’t lighten the mood. According to its 2010 market overview, vacancy numbers are predicted to rise from 12.5 percent in December 2010 to 16.9 percent to December 2011. Not the best news, but a project by Kiwi filmmaker Colin Hodson, is set to bring a bit of light back into a currently empty office building on Wellington City’s The Terrace.
2011-02-22 15:45:07 // Design Daily Team
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Much sympathy and concern to our friends and colleagues in Christchurch. Your loss is ours.
And let us know about how you and your workplaces are affected. We’re keen to hear and help.
Just add your news to the comment thread.
Also, Google has created this people finder if you're concerned about anyone in Christchurch.
http://christchurch-2011.person-finder.appspot.com/
2011-02-17 18:17:00 // Natasha Turfrey
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Wellington tech entrepreneur Michael Koziarski shared his formula to happiness and productivity in the workplace at the Webstock conference in Wellington today.
2011-01-19 23:13:08 // Hadyn Green
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There’s nothing quite like Webstock.
Perhaps that’s because it runs counter
to everything the experts said a Kiwi web
conference should be. By Haydn Green
2010-12-10 09:57:05 // First Light – NZ Solar Decathlon
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In their latest blog entry, the First Light team tell us why they’re assembling their solar bach on Wellington’s waterfront in the lead-up to the US Solar Decathlon competition. And just exactly how much Wellington wind will the bach be able to withstand?
2010-11-22 12:01:12 // Design Daily Team
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In a bid to engage in a public discussion about architecture, Wellington-based architects KebbellDaish has produced an exhibition ‘Great Figure!’ which features models and pin-ups of three houses in Wellington, on Great Barrier Island and Mornington Peninsula (near Melbourne). Each house exhibited in the show features a key space—a ‘figure’ as KebbellDaish refers to them. But you only have Monday and Tuesday this week to check it out. Details here.
2010-11-05 14:38:52 // Design Daily Team
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In what proved to be an exceptionally popular competition (over 90 entries), unashamedly "grungy" streetwise apartments, the City Gallery, the Zoo Hospital and the new Supreme Court are among designs celebrated at last night's 2010 Wellington Architecture Awards.
2010-10-22 13:53:51 // Design Daily Team
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The subtleties of gaming design are set to get a thorough look-in next month as part of the ‘Interactive Entertainment 2010’ conference in Wellington, dedicated to the science and art of designing ‘play’.
2010-09-23 11:57:57 // Deirdre Robert
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With the Government's announcement that it will contribute $10 million in addition to local funding to assist with the repair, restoration and strengthening of heritage and character buildings in the Canterbury region, comes news that three buildings on Wellington’s Willis street—all over 100 years old—are being demolished, without any public notification. But the owners of heritage buildings that fall under similar fate aren't necessarily to blame.
2010-09-08 10:01:47 // Stephen Olsen
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Emerging partially out of a ‘fit of gloom’, Property Council New Zealand has opened a debate in Wellington about what it will take to super-charge the city, commencing with the launch this month of an agenda-setting publication titled The Future Of Our Capital.
2010-09-06 12:55:17
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Don’t go recycling your plastic waste, give it to Eve Armstrong instead. The artist is on a mission to build a massive public sculpture comprised of the plastic wrapping that surrounds our daily lives. Aptly titled Taking Stock, the sculpture will be a retail display landscape made up of what is usually thrown away, and will turn the mirror back on the shopper. It's all part of the Letting Space public art series, which runs in vacant commercial sites in Wellington and seeks to transform the relationship between artists, property developers and their city.
2010-08-11 09:40:58 // Design Daily Team
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Wellington’s new Supreme Court building is on a role. Along with its nomination in the 2010 World Architecture Festival Awards mentioned in last week’s Design Daily story, the Warren and Mahoney designed building has also been shortlisted for the prestigious IStructE Structural Awards.
2009-12-04 12:44:07 // Julie Starr
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In a Wellington corridor, Nat Torkington laid down a challenge—and sparked a small revolution. Julie Starr reveals how a loose collection of determined Kiwi innovators are using public data to change the ways that politicians, public servants, companies and people communicate. But is the country ready? Plus streetwise and now open.
2009-11-06 14:35:12 // Jason Smith
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The digital worlds at the edge of our imaginations are closer than ever, according to the experts gathered at AnimfxNZ in Wellington.
