New Zealand Architecture

[ro_G]

Good lord. http://www.brimer.co.nz/arch.html

Is it a case in point that countries with nice scenery have shite architecture. Or is it that narrow island counties have an aversion to buit environments, what with being naturally bounded by the sea, with some mountainy bits in the middle to give people their height 'fix'

[Andrew Duffy]

Not too pretty, but a bit more impressive than those houses:

http://www.skyscraperpicture.com/auckland02.jpg

I think you're being a bit harsh. The USA is full of crap like that, and full of outstanding architecture as well.

[ro_G]

Maybe so. Auckland is pretty, and has some lovely downtown grean areas too, and looks like a city full of it's own charachter. Wellington is awful mind, is really just a medium sized colonial outpost.

[Paul Clerkin]

Some good work on display here

http://www.architecturenz.net

[MatB]

What you've got here is a single photographer showing his own work which he thinks says something about him. I would suggest that critiquing the Architecture of New Zealand based on such evidence is somewhat stupid.

[phil]

This place is meant to be very interesting:

http://www.artdeconapier.com/gallery.htm

[Paul Clerkin]

Got a few shots of Napier for the site courtesy of a wandering pal....

http://nz.archiseek.com

[sw101]

i liked a couple of bits there. welligton has te papa, christchurch has te puna. (see paul's link above)

the south island has a sense of being wild, with frontier towns and a sort of primitive nature to the buildings. queenstown would be an example.

makarora up in the mountains has some fantastic a frame huts, kinda like a house by duncan stuart down in ballyferriter. i'll dig out some photos if i can.

[sw101]

are those christchurch photos mine, paul? can't recall whether i sent them to you or not.

[Paul Clerkin]

yep... and very much appreciated

[sw101]

ah right. thought they looked familiar. still planning a trip to libeskind's pavilion. one of these sunny days.