A few snaps from my hotel

View from my room (Philip Fox in the background)
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid71/p3b53912eef5b256128bc4c0f85cf0dfa/fb8e39a7.jpg
Sky Tower
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid71/pd65d4f776bd66ade8f9426a55f199877/fb8e39a0.jpg
Victoria St looking towards Albert (and Queen St)
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid71/pe8906c6c59a352e30e90bcde8d127391/fb8e3998.jpg


edited by culwulla :)

Your pics arent working KIWIKAAS?

Originally posted by flyin_higher
Your pics arent working KIWIKAAS?

Get the properties by clicking on the box and you will get the URL and the pics.
flyin-higher cheers

Cheers KIWIKAAS, great pics!, did u stay at Skycity hotel? Do u know they are building a new 5-star hotel across the road?

Originally posted by flyin_higher
Cheers KIWIKAAS, great pics!, did u stay at Skycity hotel? Do u know they are building a new 5-star hotel across the road?

Yep. I stayed at Sky City.
I didnt notice the development accross the road....too drunk at night and too hungover and busy during the day.

I might have read a while back that they were planning a new convention/ exibition centre there. Could that be related?

i edited pix to show. nice agian kass! skytower looks awesome. can you actualy touch the concete legs of the tower?

Originally posted by CULWULLA
i edited pix to show. nice agian kass! skytower looks awesome. can you actualy touch the concete legs of the tower?

Yes.
The entrance to the lifts is underground.
They offered me a free wire jump when I was there. Alas prior arrangements.

how do you like this:

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Nice one Tom.
Nothing like a good zoom to get a great effect.

Yeah, nice pic Tom, love that zoom!;)

you can see a group of people on the harbour bridge.

...the Harbour Bridge Climb in action!:)

Whats wrong with this picture, or more to the point, what's right ?

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lol

Thats funny, and awesome, if only BNZ was that tall, it'd be great for the skyline too;)

When I lived in Akl the BNZ was the tallest. You used to pay to go to the observation deck on the 27th floor.
Seemed like big bikkies then.
From the looks of things the BNZ just became 35+ floors.

Yeah you can still go up, and it only costs $2! The observation deck is on the 28th floor. I do it from time to time, as you will see in my pictures in this thread (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=41218&perpage=20&pagenumber=2), and on my video in this thread (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=55744). It's cool. I can't believe I didn't know about it for years. Nobody else goes up there because they don't know about it and go up the sky tower. I bet it was so awesome when it was finished. Auckand's first over 100 metres, and I bet the octagonal form was proclaimed in the Herald as an architectural masterpiece. In fact, there's a poster on my geo class wall of a photo taken when the BNZ was Auckland's Tallest.

On a completely different note. . .

Here's a pic of the Metropolis penthouse:
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I think Metropolis is becoming my favourite Auckland tower,I just love the top of it and how it varies in colour depending on angle,weather and time of day.I wonder what is actually inside that thing?:)

I've been to the top of it..very nice inside (except for the renovations they are doing on level 36!):guns1:

Originally posted by NZer
I think Metropolis is becoming my favourite Auckland tower,I just love the top of it and how it varies in colour depending on angle,weather and time of day.I wonder what is actually inside that thing?:)

Gets my vote. Timeless design unlike some of those 70s and 80s monsters.
The Sky Tower is also timeless, in a spacey way.

Here are some more. Sorry about the darkness, it was nearly night time!

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Hey cool pics Tom!:) Its almost dusk....

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The city looks nice and dense from that angle.

Originally posted by atkinson1
The city looks nice and dense from that angle.

Is that the carpark when you wiggle your way past the traffic control centre and then via a skinny liitle road under the bridge?
Thats my number one spot for skyline spotting and picture taking.
I think thats the spot...right?

Yeah I go there sometimes. This is near there - across the motorway via under that tunnell near the traffic control centre.

Originally posted by atkinson1
Yeah I go there sometimes. This is near there - across the motorway via under that tunnell near the traffic control centre.

I know where you mean.
Funny those old access doors to the old toll booths along the tunnel.

yeah thats it! I wonder if there's any money still in them :)

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Great night shots!:guns1:

This building is silly:

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Silly?
Its the historic building which houses the exclusive 'Northern Club'
The odd thing about it is its almost completely covered in Virginia creeper!:)

It looks like hair. I bet they get hassels from the Auckland Club.

Did you know in that last night picture I did, that's a video projection on the building.

here's a picture of two out of Takapuna's three skyscrapers:

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Auckland sunrise on a Sunday morning
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid73/paf7f7b2b9acc53031414f3d50cd4d603/fb7cffdf.jpg
Phillips Fox from Lorne st
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid73/pa914400b96721e7b759a7b51e7a88d98/fb7cc63c.jpg
The Vero Crew, later to be joined by Simson Grierson (lol, twos company, three's a crowd, fours more, and fives a crew!)
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid73/p6bb435d8d4d6e49f1fa82aee53ee64b8/fb7cc941.jpg
Metropolis
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid73/p7830e0f339aa89b6c9a1f25426adfbcf/fb7a6948.jpg
SkyTower and i-Gen building in morning light
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid73/pe4db75b671e1d28a115182e3008b288f/fb7a532a.jpg
Aucks from North Shore
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid71/pe6a674a70e21bfe3b9becb22ba5a9ea3/fb92f39e.jpg
Auckland's least photographed scraper
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid69/pc86924d049a1535bfaa2916b1a811d88/fbad7fd2.jpg
(AXA Building, part of the Vero Crew)
:)

Great pics bro. You must have got up quite early to get that first one! Don't nobody mess with the Vero crew. You know what I say about AXA - it was an AXA-DENT hahaha. Joking bro.

Lol tom! :lol: AXA-dent alright, good thing that it was recently 'improved' so it gains a form of respectibility!

Yeah, early on a Sunday morning, actually, it was one of my all nightas, so I took the chance to get some cool pics!;)

Originally posted by atkinson1
how do you like this:

http://atkinson.orcon.net.nz/auckland_new1.jpg
© Tom Atkinson

That building looks exactly like cove in Sydney. Did sadler design that one as well ?

No its got nothing to do with seidler, or Cove!
Its the ANZ centre, originally known as the Coopers&Lybrand building, and finished in 1991. Its smooth granite and glass facade is actually nothing like the Cove building, which has curved, protruding balconies, etc. :)

Originally posted by flyin_higher
No its got nothing to do with seidler, or Cove!
Its the ANZ centre, originally known as the Coopers&Lybrand building, and finished in 1991. Its smooth granite and glass facade is actually nothing like the Cove building, which has curved, protruding balconies, etc. :)

Sorry I just thought it looked like Cove and wondered who designed it.

here's the mother fruitner ÿ

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Now thats a top night pic!:guns1:

Thanks. I've been trying my hand at nighttime photography recently. Apart from the ones you have already seen, here are a few more:

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Yeah, more excellent night pics Tom! I love how they have lit up PWC Tower, very New Yorkish;)

I took some recent pics around the High St/ Chancery Square area

Vero/ AXA building from Chancery Square
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid81/p7e226fa64d249382d989d4fd49ae47eb/fb03655d.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid81/p5120f24c973045085e6e4b106aa47f4a/fb036796.jpg
Vulcan Lane
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid81/p5bad0cf5d4f5642b10548cd6e4dbcdca/fb037f63.jpg
The Chancery centre
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid81/p0e7347d0920f2c3ffbc7a092d2148a46/fb037bc0.jpg
BNZ/ ANZ view
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid81/p7bb20a9198400ad52f4bc31a32526ce9/fb035a9b.jpg
Vero/AXA from Metropolis entrance
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid81/p4afce951ad01c7b33f914273df851c3c/fb035988.jpg
:)

Beautiful compositions there mate. Go BNZ!

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Hahaha if you want to see a whole lot of awesome interactive 360degree panoramas of Auckland, go here: http://www.spench.com/panos/nz/index.html

They're awesome. You get to see stuff like this:
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Wicked:guns1:

Hers a nice site. Almost as good as Tom's pics.

http://www.davidwallphoto.com/searchresults.asp?tx=&g=15&p=1&n=1565&

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http://atkinson2.orcon.net.nz/funnywall.jpg

Where is that wall? how whacked is that?!! BTW, Quay West, one of the least talked about towers, it was Auckland's first Apartment tower over 100m!
Also, they are suppose to be putting in some sort of retail/ restaurant thing in the Metropolis podium, currently vacant since its opening over 3 years ago!

That wall is on a little driveway off Durham street.

I though Quay West was just a hotel. So is it residential apartments or serviced apartments like the metropolis?

Its a hotel and apartment complex, mainly hotel, with a few penthouse apartments i think

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Love the pics Tom.
I like the pink on the sky tower.
Great angles and composition.
Sorry for posting that other site. Cant beat your pics.

Yeah, great pics as per usual!! The Pink SkyTower is for Breast Cancer week.
Your last pic is brilliant in composition, amazing stuff :guns1: Is that Church St Matthews in the City, accross from SkyCity?

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cool photo's, thanks. I really like that last one of the skytower.

Although, I must admit, I wouldn't choose that colour. More a deep evil looking blue would be cooler.

Wow Justme, you changed your avatar. I hardly recognised you, lol.

Hey there is a newer thread with some panos from the top of the sky tower at night, here:

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=63663

Originally posted by atkinson1
Wow Justme, you changed your avatar. I hardly recognised you, lol.

Hey there is a newer thread with some panos from the top of the sky tower at night, here:

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=63663

hehe, just temporary.

A troll over at the European forums accused myself and a few others of forming a clan against him.

Well, I had to give him something to be proud of ;)

I'll change it again soon...

I had to go into town for something this evening, so I went early and managed to get a couple of pics while I was there:

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Lovely Tom.
Great to see some pics from that angle. Actually that must be one of the beter vantage points.
Amazing all those appartments along Quay St there. Thats all new to me.

Fantastic night pics as usual Tom!:cool: Its good to see also that they have finally started lighting up Vero's halo again, looks much better, now they just need new logo/ signs!;)

@KIWIKAAS, yeah, there are heaps of new apartments going up along Quay St now, the old Oriental Markets bldg now long gone (phew!), and a new supermarket is going up, along with the 16 level Scene apartment complex

the old Oriental Markets bldg now long gone (phew!), and a new supermarket is going up, along with the 16 level Scene apartment complex

. . .as well as the Auckland City Superdome! Well, as soon as they get their ass into gear.

On Quay street by those apartments, there's also this hardcore little shopping area place, with a coulple of restaurants, video shop etc. And get this: A pizza hut, KFC, Mc Donalds and a petrol station literally all next to each other - some competition huh? I think the Mc Donalds is 24 hour too. I have some other pics from my Superdome assignment that I might post here soon.

OK here are some photos that I took earlier in the year for my Superdome assignment that I've scanned to show Quay Street.

Just remember they were taken for the purposes of Geographic observation, not beauty shots.

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It was a great day yesterday wasn't it?!:guns1:

It sure was. I liked it.

You know what? That white grid on the back 2 sides of Vero make it look like crap, because each square of the qrid goes up about 2 or 3 floors, but they look like single floors, and therefore make Vero look alot smaller than it is.

I like it better BLUE;)
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid85/p3017eed0f6525fba86c75373f1c70bef/fac77dca.jpg

Great picture bro! When did you take that? I can't remember the last time the tower was blue.

It was taken a few weeks back, when I also took that pic at the SImpson Grierson site;)

http://ian.swaz.net.nz/Auckland/CBD2-Named.jpg

A bit dusty that picture.

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Interesting Aerial Kiwikaas!
Hey Tom, that second pic of yours is from those swanky 'Mirage" apartments in Parnell?

I went into town for something today, and got some pictures while I was there.

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lol @ penguin

were they along Tamaki Dr advertising Kelly Tarltons or something?

Haha na actually they were along Fanshaw street, on the median strip. I had stopped at the lights, and they were dancing around. Lucky I had the camera LOL! This woman dressed as a hunter with a net gave me some free packets of chips, as the promotion was for "Bluebird". I also got a notice saying to win a prize you can text the location of the penguins to a number. I was stuck in traffic on the way back so I ate the chips.

Originally posted by atkinson1
Haha na actually they were along Fanshaw street, on the median strip. I had stopped at the lights, and they were dancing around. Lucky I had the camera LOL! This woman dressed as a hunter with a net gave me some free packets of chips, as the promotion was for "Bluebird". I also got a notice saying to win a prize you can text the location of the penguins to a number. I was stuck in traffic on the way back so I ate the chips.

How do you know it was a woman. Did you check?

Great pics Tom.

What are those two towers going up Ponsonby/ Vic Park way?
First pic, extreme left.

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How do you know it was a woman. Did you check?

Hahaha. Well seeing as this woman who gave out the chips was dressed as the "hunter" she was only wearing a funny hat, and a costume that looks like what the crocodile hunter wears, whilst carrying a large net, and pretending to chase the penguins. So I could see her face quite easily when she came up to my window, and she didn't look too man-ish. I didn't get a picture of her.

Hey Victoria St. I think this is where the hotel is that I booked for next year. the "new president hotel". Hopefully I get a room quite high up.

Pity I can't see it on this picture.

Thanks atkinson1 for all the wonderful photo's (as usual) :cheers:

http://atkinson.orcon.net.nz/towny03.jpg

In this pic you will see there are rooftop tennis courts on a building behind the New President Hotel (between it and the Citylife Hotel):

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Hey, great pics man, love that pano from Oracle (count the cranes!).

cheers atkinson1 :cheers:

hmmm... looks a bit scungy, and I hope that billboard don't block me view of the city.

I may have to have a word with my travel agent. Still, it was a good price and top location.

I've checked out some others on the net, and I'd say that's probably the best value for money, if you want to be up in a skyscraper.

hey, cheers mate!

I'll keep with it then, Being right in downtown will have it's advantages. And this is comming to the end of the holiday, so I'll have to start keeping an eye on the budget.:cheers:

Evidently the rooms are also reasonably large at the New Pres.
Location is also great.

I was in town today and ended up getting a pic for you:

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http://www.transit.govt.nz/content/picture/PictureView.do?oid=nz.govt.transit.transweb.content.image.Image-1707&res=lo

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Love the shot from Devonport. I'm getting home sick.

I drove to Mt Vic after dinner with the expectation of getting some sort of photo, and was lucky to get this great sunset when I arrived. I love the way the soft orange contrasts with the soft blue of the sea and sky.

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really atkinson1, it's starting to look like I will owe you a beer with the great pics you take, especially when you go out of your way to do these things!

Anyway, once again, thanks.

Oh, and top night photo from Mt Victoria!

Don't worry about the photos bro. It doesnt take a second to snap them if I'm walking past - I love digital :).

Top pic there, a winner for sure;)

anyways, Vero eclipse>
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid89/p94c941d5efea6c01e7b19ae125c1f926/fa873f6b.jpg

wow awesome composition there. It looks all surreal with the sky those pastel colours, and the silohettes.

Thanks man!
and more...
Vero frontal
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid89/pb217fdb0050316cdc1b61aa5cf7f4392/fa863857.jpg
Metropolis silhouette (feels like the 1930's;) )
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid89/p40e31fad09a270c7272d75665db4bd98/fa86384a.jpg
AXA bldg... a very blue axa-dent at that! lol
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid89/p2a2ed013a54fdc7323c60acec0352e34/fa863474.jpg

Here's a random picture. Dowtown CBD:

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Visited the Auckland War Memorial Museum recently, in Parnell, took some snaps>>>
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid89/pb17a072ed092528b29ff537fda7cf62b/fa788e3b.jpg
Pillars of memories
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid90/p5874555b2f987da0c9331f1471906127/fa70cb79.jpg
Oh say can you see...
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid90/pb5fad429df471ed8c930ae80060f4e1c/fa70e24f.jpg
Harbourview
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid89/pbb6065139f2647b9bda8c7797db409a3/fa788e36.jpg
City view
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid89/p6353ac915e403e890eb0b4bf22e3a046/fa788e3f.jpg
Skyline from Parnell
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid90/pad14a27c8bbc11e6acd0e0f191705c22/fa70eaa0.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid90/pb70c29b723dab688df49986b8d80732d/fa70e141.jpg

Yeah bro the museum is cool. I was going somewhere with a car load of mates once, and it started pouring down so we all went to the museum and it was so fun.

Great pics! "Oh say can you see" lol

Ahg. She's a grand old lass alright.

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Wicked pic there mate! Midtown delights!

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I woild love to go on a hell P trip and run around vero's crown:D

Great pics again :cool:

I feel like I'm on a hell P trip. I answered this message because I was told flyin was the last person to reply, now aparently it was NZer - and especially after the msn incident. OH WELL.

I want to go on the angled part of the crown and slide down - but not too far LOL.

BTW NZer, don't take P cos someone thought their leg was a chocolate cake and ate it.

lol.I was just shittin.

Don't take daytura either,or you'll try to save jewellery out of a fire and get badly burned-Or you might drown in a grotty sububran park pond trying to rescue a halucination of a dude.

Vero is so cool.

Don't take Panadol (P) or your headache might cease.

Vero is the Fruitner.

With specific attention to detail, the thing I like about Vero is the specific "cut" in the side, where the edge goes from being 90º to a 45º plane:

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They could have made a little 1-person deck there, opening out from both edges.

EDIT: This was my 700th Post. Raise the Roof. Put it back.

I had to upload this to an aussie thread so I thought I'd post it here too:

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Hey great pano! Thats a good city overview:cheers:

Yeah although it olny shows the downtown to midtown area. Anything upwards from the Sky Tower/Phillips Fox isn't included, as far as the CBD extends.

Hey! I think you should post these wonderful pics in the international posts! There are so many different angles, not only that waterfront one and they're all great! The aerial pic makes the city look so BIIIIIG! :eat:

BNZ can finally afford a rubbish bin.

http://atkinson2.orcon.net.nz/bin.jpg

Thought this was worth of some recognition, even though it does look second hand.


Oh yeah, I also found this wicked pic on a Bayleys site:

http://www.bayleys.co.nz/Intranet/images/articles/712/712.jpg

(from http://www.bayleys.co.nz/incnews_display.asp?NewsID=712&newstype=MT_BULLET)

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Everything looks so cool in black and white!

Top effort there bro! Your a pro now using all that Black' n' white! lol:guns1:

Excellent B&W work!

Wow, nice pic:

http://atkinson2.orcon.net.nz/six.jpg

Very creative :)

Yeah black and white is more artistic lol.

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Oh wow! your right, Vero does look great now fully signaged! lol Is that Halo actually now green? or is that a Christmas thingy?

Yeah that halo I think is just a Christmas thing. Unfortunately the 'VERO' letters weren't illuminated when I was there - either they havn't installed the electricals yet, or it wasn't dark enough (although all the other buildings' lights were on).

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wicked pics mate! Love the SKyTower ilt like that! Verrrry nice!

Thanks mate. Hey can everyone please vote for my picture in the photo contest here: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=85403

I hardly ever bother entering these things.

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Hey Atkinson1, Princess wharf really looks nice now with the hotel, but what's happened to Queens wharf on the other side of the Quay? Is that still old and derelict or has it been revamped?

This picture taken on 2/12/03 might help answer your question:

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Hey Justme, have u been on your tour de New Zealand yet?

cheers atkinson1, looks like the knocked down a couple of sheds to make way for a carpark. Pity, ah well...

flyin_higher, I leave for Singapore in less than two weeks, I'll be in Auckland near the end of Feb :O)

happy chappy I am :O)

:cheers:

Lucky lol. Singapore has the meanest skyline. My mate left for a month long holiday in Hong Kong at 5am this morning.

Originally posted by atkinson1
Lucky lol. Singapore has the meanest skyline. My mate left for a month long holiday in Hong Kong at 5am this morning.

only in Singapore for a night though, hope to get some nice photo's before I leave however.

Originally posted by Justme
cheers atkinson1, looks like the knocked down a couple of sheds to make way for a carpark. Pity, ah well...

flyin_higher, I leave for Singapore in less than two weeks, I'll be in Auckland near the end of Feb :O)

happy chappy I am :O)

:cheers:

Cool, well, have a nice time here when your here!:cheers:

BTW, the city council has slated that very wharf for future redevelopment, once they secure rigths from Ports of Auckland, so hope to see change in near future!

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Cool pics! U take them from the Oracle tower obs. deck?

Yep, and there is such a density of these apartment blocks (uni ones?) that there is this high rise community in the sky, as though you could walk from building to building:

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Love that pic mate, top work! QUALITY:cool:

Here's a basic skyline Panorama for Auckland. You can see the SkyCity Grand construction in there. Thumbnail - Click to enlargen:

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Marvellous work Tom!

BTW, thats not the SkyCity grand u can see next to ASB bldg, its the City Gardens apartments, im pretty sure
You can also faintly make out the core of the NRM Tower too!

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Cheers for the pics mate, love the NRM one, its sure growin!:guns1:

Now that the base is done, I rekon it'll go up as fast as SkyCity Grand, and that thing went from about 5 floors to 24 in about a month.

well, hopefully! :cool:

I had to go into town tonight and take some photos for a uni assignment, so I took some quick snaps on my digital when I was there too:

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Good shots bro.

I took some when i was in Aucks on the weekend:
Vero
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid107/p218340489f2a3908e09f5eca3b8f71a3/f954d1af.jpg
Bluestone (looks more metallic than blue, lol)
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid107/p7807ee002b5392b2f983589c92ed56cf/f954d207.jpg
Scene apartments- These will make a significant impact from the waterfront.
From Britomart:
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid107/p4eba4e31225d026bd16d87594e3468e0/f954d44a.jpg
From Beach Road/ Customs St:
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid107/p981bfc54474216f543a06d94a1bc6895/f954d4e7.jpg
The walkway through above-ground Britomart (near Taku Tai Square)
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid107/p0f9698ee6e51e6e5f990ea2ddbb41664/f954e6c9.jpg
:)

Sweet pictures man. Its cool that you got back to Auckland in the weekend. Those scene apartments are sure coming along!

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very nice! sun-tilicious

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Hi everyone,

Long time reader, first time poster. I never really looked at Auckland's buildings much before, but after going to Hong Kong I was suddenly very interested in sky scrapers. Anyway, a couple of weeks ago when the weather was quite nice I went out and took a few photos down by the waterfront.

I started down the bottom of Hobson St:

http://www.nancyhu.com/uploads/images/pic_4121.jpg


The "West Plaza Building" from the side:

http://www.nancyhu.com/uploads/images/pic_4123.jpg


Warning: Sharp Object.

http://www.nancyhu.com/uploads/images/pic_4122.jpg


Ok, so after that I walked down to the Viaduct. Looks quite nice on a sunny day - I like the way they have lots of boats pulled up right by the bars and restaurants. Hopefully more of Auckland will be like the Viaduct in a few years!

http://www.nancyhu.com/uploads/images/pic_4124.jpg


I quite like Princess Wharf. It's quite a unique building, looking like a big cruise liner or something. In the 2nd pic, you can see the Hilton Hotel right at the end. Nice place to stay if you're visiting Auckland.

http://www.nancyhu.com/uploads/images/pic_4125.jpg
http://www.nancyhu.com/uploads/images/pic_4126.jpg

Walking out onto Princess Wharf gives good views of the waterfront. Here you can see the old Ferry Building, and the new PriceWaterhouseCoopers building. I really like the PWC - although it looks better from the side. As a huge bonus, it completely blocks the old Air New Zealand building. Now all we need is a nice new one in front of the HSBC building, and the waterfront will look even better :)

http://www.nancyhu.com/uploads/images/pic_4127.jpg


While the Britomart has been opened for ages, I had never actually gone down there until a couple of weeks ago. I was very impressed. This area will be awesome in a few years time. Anyway, here's the back entrance to the train station:

http://www.nancyhu.com/uploads/images/pic_4128.jpg

Still by the back entrance of the station, and Vero looks very tall from this angle

http://www.nancyhu.com/uploads/images/pic_4129.jpg


Who designed this? While it is just a big ugly tin can, it's beggining to grow on me :)

http://www.nancyhu.com/uploads/images/pic_4130.jpg


And, still near the train station, is the lovely Citibank building, with Tower Insurance in the background, right at the bottom of Queen St

http://www.nancyhu.com/uploads/images/pic_4131.jpg


Not exactly a skyscraper, but I just love this billboard :)

http://www.nancyhu.com/uploads/images/pic_4133.jpg


Hope you enjoyed it.

Nice Shots,and welcome to the forum drflower.

cool pics drflower! Its good to have someone new on the forums :cheers:

nice photos! nice to see a street level perspective.

welcome aboard bro! always great to have another kiwiscrapers forumer. here's your complimentary milo and chupa chup.

you photos are awesome, and so is your avatar. lol "warning sharp object" indeed.

I used to post pictures every day, and I hardly do any more, so I thought I'd post this "never-seen-before" relic taken on the 19/10/03. Whowowowoo.

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Yum:cheers:

Looks like this is turning into an official auckland photo thread :)
Here's a favourite from my own collection:

http://img1.exs.cx/img1/3278/AXAVero.jpg

Great pic, and nice colours in the sky. It's a bit like this old pic of mine:

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Wow...Auckland has developed alot since I was last living there. Makes me wanna move back!

I was in Auckland a few weeks back and I thought the waterfront area still looks like a work in progress I much prefered Wellington which has a more classy feel about it..

I rekon.

I used to post pictures every day, and I hardly do any more, so I thought I'd post this "never-seen-before" relic taken on the 19/10/03. Whowowowoo.

Great pic, but how did you take it? Looks like you're only halfway up the sky tower or something :?

Yeah it was taken from the window of the glass elevator as I was going down. I had planned to take it like that so I could get a 'canyon' look of Victoria Street.

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Some interesting angles there Tom, are they taken from somewhere on the North Shore?

Some more randoms...
This was one of my least favourite buildings in Auckland before it's makeover - now it's one of my favourites.
http://img17.exs.cx/img17/2647/AXA7-04.jpg

This building i have a strange attraction to. I think it's just different...
http://img17.exs.cx/img17/2085/HighStreet--7-04a.jpg

Threesome...
http://img26.exs.cx/img26/4763/IAGANZBNZ7-04.jpg

Scene One very much taking shape:
http://img37.exs.cx/img37/6933/SceneOne7-04a.jpg

I agree Sam_L, the AXA bldg look very swish these days, after the refurbishment a few years back- just love that glass!

This was one of my least favourite buildings in Auckland before it's makeover - now it's one of my favourites.

It was an AXA-dent LOL. That joke never gets old. Anyway, yeah looks flash now.

hahaahha, no, no it doesn't indeed! :cheers:

I'm in stitches.

here are some pics I took today from closer to home so I didn't have to go over the bridge:

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Britomart is still empty as ever.... one of Auckland's finest new pieces of architecture though.
http://img38.exs.cx/img38/9499/Britomart7-04e.jpg
http://img47.exs.cx/img47/7148/Britomart7-04d.jpg
http://img41.exs.cx/img41/7803/Britomart7-04f.jpg'

And one of West Plaza just for luck
http://img48.exs.cx/img48/9439/WestPlaza7-04.jpg

That was some very fast clicking Atkinson1. Yes, I did see the same van crossing the main span 3x! Nice zoom shots. Try some from Northcote point just under the bridge. Thats a great spot there.

Sam_L. Holy shit! Those shots of Britomart almost bring one to tears. As Justme once stated ''its the quietest central station Ive ever seen''. Just makes you want to rip your clothes off and streak down the platform with your arms stretched out, weaving in and out of those supporting pillars yelling ''Hello, hello, hello.....''!
No doubt Britomart will come of age one day,..one day, one day, one day.....

Top pics guys, but yeah, like Bruce said, real sad about the underutilisation of Britomart- Such a brillliant piece of urban architecture, but where are the trains and passengers....one day indeed, lol!

Just makes you want to rip your clothes off and streak down the platform with your arms stretched out, weaving in and out of those supporting pillars yelling ''Hello, hello, hello.....''!


Been there, done that.

Honestly bros, there is never anyone in Britomart. You know why? Because the trains don't go anywhere that people want to go.

That was some very fast clicking Atkinson1. Yes, I did see the same van crossing the main span 3x!

I'm pretty quick on the old van-stalking. Your favourite hot drink was in it. I have been to the harbour bridge place before and don't like it as much. However, there's a nice little spot next to the motorway just before the bridge where you can get shots like this:

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Been there, done that.

Honestly bros, there is never anyone in Britomart. You know why? Because the trains don't go anywhere that people want to go.

Imagine how long you would have to wait if you wanted to commit suicide by laying on the tracks! You would either give up and go home or fall asleep.


I'm pretty quick on the old van-stalking. Your favourite hot drink was in it. I have been to the harbour bridge place before and don't like it as much. However, there's a nice little spot next to the motorway just before the bridge where you can get shots like this:

Thats right I remember. At the end of the tunnel under the old tollplaza.

I'm still waiting for that van to arrive and those beers are getting nicely chilled in the meantime.

At the end of the tunnel under the old tollplaza.

It's just a little bit up from that. You go past the traffic cop headquarters (near the tunnel entrance) and under the harbour bridge and there's a little boat shed place.

Sam_L. Holy shit! Those shots of Britomart almost bring one to tears. As Justme once stated ''its the quietest central station Ive ever seen''. Just makes you want to rip your clothes off and streak down the platform with your arms stretched out, weaving in and out of those supporting pillars yelling ''Hello, hello, hello.....''!
No doubt Britomart will come of age one day,..one day, one day, one day.....

It was completely airy walking through the station, especially through that room in the second photo. I spent over 5 mins in that space, and the only other person i saw there was myself in all the mirrored surfaces that seem to be everywhere.... i think the architects were thinking the mirrors would make it feel like there's double the amount of people there actually is.

I think after new trains, new suburban stations, and an extra route or two there should be one or two more people lingering around.

Auckland needs an underground subway route too. I'm sick of catching the buses. Honestly I could write an essay about my bus experiences today. Anyway yeah there's never anyone in Brito, that's why so many music videos are filmed there. It's just a big empty sound stage, already kitted out in flash music video-set materials and trains in the background that would otherwise be CGI.

Auckland needs an underground subway route too. I'm sick of catching the buses. Honestly I could write an essay about my bus experiences today. Anyway yeah there's never anyone in Brito, that's why so many music videos are filmed there. It's just a big empty sound stage, already kitted out in flash music video-set materials and trains in the background that would otherwise be CGI.

Whats the prognosis with the up and coming local elections. Pro Road John Banks vs Pro PT Christine Fletcher right?
When John Banks came in I thought ''atlast someones going to take action''. However with the opening of Britomart and the painfully obvious under utilisation of the train infrastructure I am pulling further and further away towards a higher investment in PT. Especially with the bill for the Eastern hwy at 3-4 billion! With that money you could have the best train system money can buy. Let Transit complete the motorway network and focus on getting the rail system up and running. Most of the required road improvements in Auckland can be done at a minimum of cost. Widening an existing road by 3-6 metres is much cheaper than focusing on single routes at costs of 10s of millions per km (which still leave the general road system waiting for work).
Whats the general feeling in Auckland about this? Road or rail?

I think the general feeling is roads, but I don't know.

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Cool pic Tom

@Bruce, I think the general feeling is probably more and more a dualistic approach, in both Roading and rail, like what u advocate, so I think its a good sign, but yeah, alot more money needs to go into the Rail system

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An oldie:
Britomart, from Taku Tai Square looking towards the PWC Tower
http://img15.photobucket.com/albums/v45/Flyin_higher/britomart_takutaiSq.jpg

ANZ from the south:
http://img69.exs.cx/img69/7716/ANZTower29-7-04.jpg

Some Panos from the west:
http://img63.exs.cx/img63/807/Pano1.jpg

http://img67.exs.cx/img67/9025/Pano2.jpg

http://img53.exs.cx/img53/1750/Pidgeon.jpg

great pics. i love the bird

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Damn that scene project is gonna look sexy.

I'll tell you what looks even sexier! An apartment tower around the corner from there (near Anzac Ave I think) that was just finished last year (or early this year) and it's white with a very linear design. I'll try and get a pic. It looks huge because it's built on the hill I think.

Ah i should go for a walk around there one day. Is it up towards the high court? There's another apartment building on the other side of town that is looking promising, and that's the Alpha Apartments on Nelson Street. It's almost finished now and if it looks like the renders when its done it should look pretty snazzy.

http://img42.exs.cx/img42/9870/alpha_apartments.jpg

The one I'm thinking of is near Anzac Street but not the high court side, more near the old railway building side on that hill.

Ah yes, I think you are talking about the Century on Anzac apartment bldg, built by the same people who are building residences@harbourcity (bodes well eh?). http://www.firstcitygroup.co.nz/Image_Library/anzac_1.jpg
Also, those scene apartments are about to be joined by scene two, next to that flash new foodtown supermarket

Yeah that century looks pretty good.

Other random (and not random) pics from my recent trip to Auckland City:
ferry view
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid134/pd164c8c41a551489e7b72467627e22b2/f777c625.jpg
relectionne
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid134/p35ac463d88d377b162f549eee22f2a53/f772ff54.jpg
all lined up
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid134/pf58f3e0a6c8143d4d5120556c58aeb8e/f7730056.jpg
ferry view 2 (note NRM)
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid134/p4ea85a5a9dfdd6aecc9447afe32724c9/f777b127.jpg
albert's talls
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid134/pd619ae54eff63965ffb3f6d1ce801976/f772feb2.jpg
vero at dusk
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid134/p0fee3fde7e6d2de3979bdd7945f0aa1d/f772fcff.jpg
ferry view 3- love those ferries
(note who else has noticed the upgrading of the ferry terminal? The designs look great too!)
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid134/p4333dffc0dc3649dcbe4bfae913d90cb/f777c593.jpg
the hilton hotel stands guard
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid134/pde03a4fdf4f9e894ebd03ade6a944419/f777c5b0.jpg
the oracle lets us see it
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid134/pea952e02d91877b9a0cb616279a02786/f772e7e5.jpg
cheerio.

Those photos are very nice! Great compositions. The water looks a great colour in some of those ferry ones.

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid134/pd164c8c41a551489e7b72467627e22b2/f777c625.jpg

Give 10-15 years the sky tower would be difficult to see.

My thoughts also! :cheers:

I, for one, can never get tired of CBD photos. It shows the economic prosperity of a city and nation. Keep them coming! You are also probably acting on behalf of tourism NZ without realisation.

Downtown from the Domain.

http://img52.exs.cx/img52/5216/Import5011.jpg

You can just see the top of NRM :D And is that a crane on the Harbourcity site?

You are also probably acting on behalf of tourism NZ without realisation.
Lol.

I like the pics too.

That's a phat pic Sam. Beautiful angle. Lots of cranes down there!

:) You should place that Relectione Photo in the Oz photo contest I reckon that its great , those ferns in the glass make it a great Kiwi Photo !

I agree Mark! that pic is fantastic. And cheers Tom. Here's the whole view from the domain:

http://img18.exs.cx/img18/3857/Townfromdomain.jpg

Some randoms of the museum just to break up all the skyscraper stuff:
http://img17.exs.cx/img17/2623/Museum1.jpg

http://img40.exs.cx/img40/2976/Museum2.jpg

http://img18.exs.cx/img18/3972/Museum3.jpg

Thanks guys, I might post it in next weeks comp, as i've already got a photo in this weeks.

I lurrve the museum- its brilliant architecture! Hey Sam_L do you know about the museum redevelopment- with the huge new glass/copper dome being put on the roof? It's under construction now, so i don't know if you saw anything happening?
check out www.aucklandmuseum.co.nz (http://www.aucklandmuseum.co.nz/?t=198)
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid89/pb17a072ed092528b29ff537fda7cf62b/fa788e3b.jpg

I lurrve the museum- its brilliant architecture! Hey Sam_L do you know about the museum redevelopment- with the huge new glass/copper dome being put on the roof? It's under construction now, so i don't know if you saw anything happening?
check out www.aucklandmuseum.co.nz

Yeah I was just thinking the architecture is awesome, and your pictures show that well Sam and you too flyin. I've only taken a pic there once, on a uni trip, and I went up to the second or third floor and took one of the skyline out the window to get a slightly elevated view.

The new dome thing will be cool judging by the multi media display on those plasmas.

Thanks guys, I might post it in next weeks comp, as i've already got a photo in this weeks.

I lurrve the museum- its brilliant architecture! Hey Sam_L do you know about the museum redevelopment- with the huge new glass/copper dome being put on the roof? It's under construction now, so i don't know if you saw anything happening?
check out www.aucklandmuseum.co.nz (http://www.aucklandmuseum.co.nz/?t=198)


Yeah man that construction is well underway. They've completely dug out the rear of the museum about 2 stories underground. You can see into it through a huge roller-door down the side of the building. I wish i got a pic of it now. Ah well i might be going into town tomorrow so i'll go up and take one if i'm bored.
It sure is brilliant architecture though... One of my lecturers told us that the front porch of the museum - the part with the columns, is the exact dimensions of that of the front of the Parthenon in Athens. I found that quite interesting.

Wow, that's an interesting fact! The Auckland Parthenon indeed ;)

How come i never knew about the ferry terminal upgrade until now? It looks bloody good!

Renders:

http://img60.exs.cx/img60/8264/FerryTerminal1.jpg

http://img70.exs.cx/img70/6976/FerryTerminal2.jpg

Progress so far:

http://img23.exs.cx/img23/2376/FerryTerminal3.jpg

And here's the almost finished Alpha Apartments:

http://img37.exs.cx/img37/2065/Alpha16-8-04.jpg

Yeah those new Ferry Terminals are going to be superb! And its about time- anyone who uses the ferry would know how dirty the current terminals are- much in need of what is currently doing! They are also planning a massive upgrading of the Half Moon Bay ferry terminal.
Here's another render i found of the Downtown Terminal upgrade, from the artnl website (www.artnl.co.nz ) :
http://www.artnl.co.nz/images/ferry_downtown3.jpg

Your pic of the Alpha apartments also shows the new Victopia apartment bldg under construction on the right.

It's crazy... Hobson and Nelson streets are apartment construction central! They're going up all over the show. The sad thing is, they're probably going to age badly which will bring that whole area down if that happens.

Ahh excellent pics. Just in relation to those Alpha Apartments, is that the Victopia behind them?

And the tower next to that big Neo Classical church at the top of Queen Street (near the corner of K-Road) is finished or nearly finished.

Yeah man that's Victopia... flyin just mentioned that in his last post. There's two towers that are just starting to go up towards the top of Nelson St, and Altitude Apartments (75m) on Hobson, close to SkyCity, is getting tall too.

Ok I know this pic is really bad quality, and not taken by me, but I had to post it anyway. Don't you think this is a very nice picture of the city?:

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Yeah that's nice as. It almost looks as if there's no harbour.

Here's another i took the other day from the top of Mt Albert. It looks alot denser than it is from this angle for some reason.

http://img46.exs.cx/img46/9948/CityfromMtAlbert.jpg

Yeah thats a nice angle. I havn't been up Mt Albert.

And a couple more photos...

first looking out from my apartment, which i thought I should take before the apartment being built in front of me completely blocks my view. You can see Microsoft and HP, but right by it is also Sun Microsystems and IBM, so it's like the Auckland Technology Megacentre :)

http://www.danielflower.com/uploads/images/pic_4681.jpg

And a threesome, including the majestic Metropolis:

http://www.danielflower.com/uploads/images/pic_4682.jpg

phat thanks drflower. you have a nice apartment and good to see AXA-dent popping up in photos again lol. Soon Vodafone will be there too so it will be techno-valley hardcore. The Microsoft people can play on their Xboxs and watch the vodafone people texting.

show me more ANZ! it looks awesome in the first shot. looks white wiht gold glass!

It only looks like that at certain times of the day. I was driving back to my house once and I looked at the city skyline (from the North Shore) and could have sworn that ANZ was on fire, or they had re-clad the outside of it with a sparkly firey orange. It must have just been the sunset reflections but DAMN!

Those pics were taken during a lesser-case of the ANZ illusion but still look cool.

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Oh yeah I heard about that- a news and advertising screen on Fanshawe st. Looks cool, wonder what kind of things they will play- the news maybe? ads for sure.

I quite enjoyed those Auckland photos. The skyline is not overly tall, but it is still quite nice.

Is Auckland's CBD the retail center of the city, or is it located elsewhere? Just asking because I did not see any storefronts or cafes or really no historical buildings either. May have just been the photographers choice.

And another Auckland question, has Auckland always been the largest city in NZ?

The city is not really a big retail centre. It's quite bad really. The main retail places are large suburban malls, and suburban shopping areas like Newmarket, Ponsonby etc.

There are some historic buildings but Auckland is quite well known for having pulled down most of the old buildings.

As far as I know it's always been the largest city, but I could be wrong.

As far as I know it's always been the largest city, but I could be wrong.

Wrong Tom. Dunedin was NZs largest city untill the end of the 19th century.
Dunedin was the centre of NZs goldrush and became NZs largest and wealthiest city.

Wrong Tom.

No I'm right, because I said:

but I could be wrong.


Dunedin was the centre of NZs goldrush and became NZs largest and wealthiest city.
Lol what happened?

Lol what happened?

Like every finite resource, such as oil and gas, the Gold eventually ran out, and the people and businesses started leaving. There is much fine architecture in Dunedin because of the Gold rush, including NZ's first skyscraper i believe.

Wrong Tom. Dunedin was NZs largest city untill the end of the 19th century.
Dunedin was the centre of NZs goldrush and became NZs largest and wealthiest city.

Quite interesting. Thanks.

There is a city about twenty minutes from my hometown called Dunedin. It's in the state of Florida, about 5 minutes from Clearwater, 40 mins from Tampa and 35 mins from St. Petersburg. I'm not sure if it is named after the NZ city or a Scottish one, but there is a picture of Scottsman in a kilt playing the bagpipes on the city's "welcome" sign. Dunedin is located on Clearwater Harbor, a few minutes from some fine Gulf of Mexico becahes, and it was founded in the late 19th century. The town has about 13,000 residents and although it has a small historic downtown, it is essentially a suburb of Clearwater and the larger city of Tampa. The entire Tampa metro area is home to 2.5 million residents.

Yeah I've seen a guy on another forum from Dunedin in Florida. Interesting.

Quite interesting. Thanks.

There is a city about twenty minutes from my hometown called Dunedin. It's in the state of Florida, about 5 minutes from Clearwater, 40 mins from Tampa and 35 mins from St. Petersburg. I'm not sure if it is named after the NZ city or a Scottish one, but there is a picture of Scottsman in a kilt playing the bagpipes on the city's "welcome" sign. Dunedin is located on Clearwater Harbor, a few minutes from some fine Gulf of Mexico becahes, and it was founded in the late 19th century. The town has about 13,000 residents and although it has a small historic downtown, it is essentially a suburb of Clearwater and the larger city of Tampa. The entire Tampa metro area is home to 2.5 million residents.

I beleive that Melbourne is also in the same area.

I beleive that Melbourne is also in the same area.

i guess melbourne,FL is on the other side of the state:)
i lived in greater Tampa in town called Lutz for half a year in '95 but i didnt like it as an eastern european teenager (i couldnt buy cigarettes and beer :/ ) but some of my relatives still lives around there so maybe i should visit them if bush wont be reelected :P

i guess melbourne,FL is on the other side of the state:)
i lived in greater Tampa in town called Lutz for half a year in '95 but i didnt like it as an eastern european teenager (i couldnt buy cigarettes and beer :/ ) but some of my relatives still lives around there so maybe i should visit them if bush wont be reelected :P

Thats right, Melbourne is close to Fort Lauderdale.

Dunedin FL.

http://www.skypic.com/florida/5-3325.jpg

Whats the name of that suburb that slipped down the hill a few years back ?
Is that it out in the Harbour ! LOL just joking , but I do remember and it was probaly more than just a few years back as well . :cheers:

Oi, I don't really know Auckland well, so can someone post a map and/or a big aerial photo or something. I'm missing the beauty of the harbour that I'm told is comparable to Sydney

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Whats the name of that suburb that slipped down the hill a few years back ?
Is that it out in the Harbour ! LOL just joking , but I do remember and it was probaly more than just a few years back as well . :cheers:

That was Abbotsford (a southern suburb of Dunedin). It happened in 1979 after several weeks of cracks opening up in the ground.
The cause were excavations made for the southern motorway at the base of the hill made in the mid 1960s. The excavations took away the base support for the hill so eventually the suburb above just slid down the hill.
No one was hurt even though some residents were still in their houses when the slide occured.
http://library.christchurch.org.nz/Childrens/NZDisasters/images/Abbottsford2.jpg
http://www.otago.ac.nz/geology/whatis/images/wdabbots2.jpg

Oi, the Auckland Harbour Bridge, no offense, but it's like a major try-hard SHB. I hear they even have a BridgeClimb thing on that.

It's actually quite a different design if you really compare them, but I know what you're saying - especially about the bridge climb. We did copy that, although Sydney has copied the idea of having a climb on the top of the Sydney Tower, like our Sky Tower Vertigo Climb up the mast.

Double post.

Thats right, Melbourne is close to Fort Lauderdale.

Melbourne is actually closer to Orlando than any other large Florida city. That town got hit by two hurricanes last month.

kucksi, I don't blame you for not liking Lutz or Tampa. I live close to Lutz, and well, it's quite bland and suburban. It has probably changed a lot since you were here, though not necessarily for the better. And I doubt that the outcome of the upcoming presidential election here in the states will affect your time spent in Lutz.

www.manson.co.nz/manson/home.asp

Wow that was awesome

Yeah it is awesome. I particularly liked the homepage night time pic of Auckland City with the NRM building standing out in full colour.

When you're alone and life is making you lonely
You can always go - downtown


Not nice weather for taking photos but I did anyway. It's WINTER.

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Good stuff. Love the pano, pity about teh weather tho, lol. NRM making its presence felt too!

Beaut pics Tom. Love your work man. It's been a while since i've posted anything... it's been a while since i've been in town with a camera. I might go take some snaps this weekend if the weather lets me.

Evening folks. Some latin american chap has made a post about "New Zealand Cities" in the Cityscapes and Skylines forum. Just though i'd let you all know, just incase you want to contribute some pics and what not. I posted a few pics but nothing too special. Here is it:

http://skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=142408

Yeah I just bombarded that thread lol. Woops :)

I should really upload about 100 of my best scenery pics from my trips around the country. There is some amazing places remote in the South Island I can tell you.

Haha nice one buddy. I knew you could pull a few out of the bag.

We should start a "Summer Holiday" thread sometime this summer where we can all post pictures of our holidays this comming christmas break. Just a random idea.

Bro that would be awesome. Summer holiday is the shiz. I'd love to get up to Northland again, and maybe another tour around some beautiful remote some South Island country.

Man I love summer, the barbeques, the parties, the songs, Christmas on the beach, New Years, everything!

Man I must have added like another 5MB loading time to that thread lol.

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