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| TOMB OF A PLANNING APPLICATION |
05.06.03
A Tomb
of the Unknown Warrior was to be constructed on the steps to
the National War Memorial in Wellington in time for a state funeral
on armistice day in November, but a high court ruling has thrown
out the planning approval. The
Dominion reports that the 'Serious about Heritage' pressure
group took Wellington City Council to court, angry that the National
Memorial's heritage protection doesn't include its very dominant
steps. They don't have a problem with the Robert
Jahnke design itself, just that it wasn't properly assessed.
This will cause red faces all round, as Prime Minister Helen Clark
unveiled the winning design in April with the words,
“the Tomb... will enhance the precinct of the National War
Memorial which is a significant part of our historic heritage.”
24.05.03
Cox and Creative
Spaces have designed a 'Superdome' for Auckland City. It was
recently lodged for Resouce Consent. The 12,000 seater is described
by a media release as a smaller version of Sydney's Superdome. The
21,000 seater Australian dome was also designed by Cox, and was
built by Abigroup who will build,
own and operate the Auckland dome.
Scoop.co.nz has pictures
of the dome in its downtown location next to the significant Gummer
and Ford designed Railway Station.
With only 164 car parks proposed, the dome will be heavily reliant
on improved public transportation and this is causing some public
debate.
Council planning officials are against having
a public consultation phase in the resource consent application,
seeing it as a costly delay.
AUCKLAND
CITY SUPERDOME
SYDNEY
SUPERDOME
MEDIA
RELEASE AUGUST 200
NZ
HERALD 13.05.03 "Clash of views on public's right to discuss
new stadium"
NZ
HERALD 23.05.03 "Officials reject stadium consultation"
| IS IT TO BE THE BOWLING
OF A BOYD OR THE CLEARING OF A CLEREHAN |
 16.05.03
Last month butterpaper reported that Robin Boyd's
curvy "Lloyd house" at 2 Newbay Crescent, Brighton was
about to be demolished when Heritage Victoria slapped on an Interim
Protection Order.
Upon closer examination, the Executive Director
of HV has decided that the house is not worthy of joining the other
three Boyd houses on the register.
Instead it has been recommended for incorporation into the local
council's heritage overlay.
Heritage Victoria argues that this house is not a pure Boyd, it
is in fact, "an RVIA Small Homes
Service plan designed by Neil Clerehan that Boyd adapted
to fit a long narrow site and to preserve an existing pear tree
resulting in the crescent form of the main body of the house."
The house had "unsympathetic"
alterations in 1969 and this also loses it brownie points..."There
is some interest in that the original design was a RVIA Small Homes
Service plan but it cannot be considered to be representative of
a Small Home plan due to its alteration. The
Lloyd house is therefore of insufficient significance to warrant
inclusion in the Heritage Register."
Despite these reservation, Heritage Victoria have
recommended the house for local planning protection, citing that,
"it is of aesthetic significance at a local level as a
display of Boyd's versatility in finding design solutions through
various building forms, methods of construction and materials. In
this case the use of circular geometry rather than the rectilinear
form that he had employed up until then is of particular note. That
the house' initial design is also the product of two of the late
1950's more noteworthy architects (Clerehan and Boyd) is also of
note." Heritage Victoria is taking submissions from
the public about this recommendation until June 16.
It's rumoured that the new owners had no idea
about the significance of the house when they bought it, and understandably
aren't too happy about it now. This is a common situation for notable
modern houses (no one can believe we like them). It is a pity that
the council's heritage review of 1999 did not identify the house
as a 'Grade B' historic structure ("integral to the cultural
significance of the City of Bayside as a whole, through their architectural
integrity and/or their historical associations." ). This
would have been hard for the new owners to miss.
Also hard to miss though was the half page spread with photo in
Philip Goad's 'Melbourne Architecture'. Or the cover photo on Geoffrey
Serle's biography of Robin Boyd (see above). Or the big HELLO that
Field Consultants medal-winning Holyoake
house of 2000 says to the Lloyd House.
The problems with heritage! At one end you can't get permission
to touch a brick on a victorian terrace house, anywhere.
At the other end, highly regarded modern houses
sit on land that has grown in value, waiting for replacement with
'heritage' style cubes offering extra bathrooms and carspaces.
HERITAGE
VICTORIA
CANBERRA
MODERN DEMOLITIONS
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