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KLK said:

Is Monument where the Warehouse was?

And Piermont - looking at the views from the balcony on their website, its near the Museum Hotel?

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Il Casino Site To Become Up-Market Development
Thursday, 17 April 2008, 11:11 am

Press Release: Sorenson Group PR

Il Casino Site To Become Up-Market Development

Remiro Bresolin’s former Il Casino restaurant, which was known as Wellington’s ‘most Italian of restaurants’, is to be transformed into an up-market residential development to be called ‘Appartamento Il Casino’.

The development, on the corner of Tory and Jessie Streets, will have up to 31 apartments over nine floors. Occupying the ground floor there will be a specialist café and possibly a restaurant, and ample resident parking.

Stephen McDougall, director of leading architectural practice Studio of Pacific Architecture, has designed the development which will retain the well-known original Tory Streetfaçade of the restaurant. The development is being undertaken by award-winning Wellingtoncompany, Globe Holdings.

Globe Holdings director Andrew Fawcet says, “We sought permission to use the restaurant’s name and Remiro Bresolin graciously gave us his blessing before he passed away in March 2007. This has enabled the development to preserve a little of Wellington’s history and the memories associated with Remiro and his restaurant.”

The apartments, planned to rise above the façade, will comprise a mix of one bedroom and two bedroom dwellings, some with a study, and on the upper levels, three and four bedroom apartments with a study. The two bedroom and three bedroom apartments will have two bathrooms and generous balconies.

“Our desire was for a building with more personality and character than that found in other contemporary apartment blocks. The brief to our architects was to create a building that would continue as a landmark and contribute something to the City; time will tell whether we’ve succeeded, but we’re confident that this will be the best development that Globe has embarked upon to date,” Mr Fawcet said.

The apartments will be highly specified with chef’s kitchens, floor to ceiling windows, heated bathroom floors, timber decks and walk-in or built in wardrobes. The living and dining areas of each apartment will feature reverse cycle ceiling mounted air conditioning. Security features will include deadlocks on apartment entry doors, access care entry from street level with intercom access for visitors and video capability to an internal MATV system.

Car parking will be provided for by way of a state-of-the-art fully automated car stacker, with secure parking over 40 cars.

Two of Globe Holdings’ recent developments, The Summit Apartments on Molesworth Streetand the Courtyard houses which form part of The Waterfront Seatoun, have achieved recognition by winning the Wellington NZ Institute of Architects (NZIA) Resene Awards for Architecture in 2006. The Summit Apartments also won the NZIA 2006 Resene Colour Award.

Globe Holdings has previously been recognised by a Year of the Built Environment Award for The Waterfront Seatoun, the NZIA 2003 Wellington Urban Design Award for The Waterfront Seatoun’s masterplan, and an NZIA Resene Local Award for Architecture for its Croxley Mills development on Frederick Street, Wellington.

The Appartamento Il Casino development will be marketed by leading Wellingtonreal estate agency Tommy’s in conjunction with Globe Holdings.

“We envisage that Appartamento Il Casino will appeal to owner-occupiers who want to enjoy high quality inner-city living without compromise. The design provides great indoor/outdoor flow making the most of natural light and the city landscape while the security features enable owners to lock and leave their home without worry, while they are away on business or out of town. This will result in considerable interest from those who need a central Wellington residence during the week but might have a holiday home in the Wairarapa or further afield,” Mr Fawcet said.

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de minimis said:

Yes, a huge expansion for that was on the cards, from the kowhai-loving Chow brothers. Shudder.

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60 MPa said:

Developers sometimes wrap the columns in kevlar and epoxy blankets, just like the motorway columns, and the building is good for another few floors.
Nice recycling, if that's whats going on here.

By the way Red, you might want to update the previous pic from Century City - Wellington Construction have abandoned the project (note the sign removal) and Serepisos' boys are trying to finish it themselves.
Word is it won't be finished before Christmas if not March..

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Ironmanfood said:

Anyone know why Lyall Bay (the suburb) and parts of Kilbirnie are so treeless? Is it to do with the airport?

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Green giant HQ for Telecom

PAUL MULROONEY - The Dominion Post | Wednesday, 16 July 2008

A $100 million "green" building to house Telecom is being billed as the "most significant" of its kind for central Wellington.

The telecommunications giant has been named as the anchor tenant for what will be known as Willis Central - 12 levels of office buildings and retail outlets spreading from Willis St to Boulcott St. The site is opposite the recently opened Chews Lane precinct.

Apartments in Boulcott St, perched on pillars above a car park, would be moved. They are owned by the developer, Ian Cassels' the Wellington Company.

Buildings in Boulcott and Willis streets would be linked by a central glass atrium, creating a campus-style development. It will cover 19,000 of the available 26,000 square metres.

About 1700 Telecom staff, now spread over six leased properties around central Wellington, would be housed in the development, which has been leased for 12 years from mid-2011.

It will be a five-green-star- rated building, meaning it will use the latest in environmental design, including energy-efficient lighting, solar panels and possibly wind turbines.

Mr Cassels, who redeveloped the former Mid City movie theatre complex into New Zealand's first five-green- star-rated building, now home to the Conservation Department, said his latest project could eclipse it in significance.

It could also help allay growing economic uncertainty in the business sector.

"In the middle of a year that's pretty uninspiring in terms of woes and troubles, it's really quite a major step for Wellington," he said.

Wellington City Council had yet to receive a resource consent application but the project was within the 95- metre height limit. Construction is set to start this year.

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Verbal said:

I suspect this one will be given a hard time by the church parishioners so if you support this development it might be worth getting a submission in.

I hope there are some renders from other angles to give an idea of how it'll impact on the view of the church from the willis-boulcott corner.

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deepred said:

There's an article in last week's CityLife freebie about the derelict Thorndon Tavern site. After the Tavern closed down in the mid-90s, the Thai Govt bought the site to build a new embassy, but things went quiet after Bangkok put the project on hold following the Asian financial flu.

The site hasn't changed hands, but the article pointed out Bangkok is still to unfreeze the funding, and the site is still costing them six-figure rates each year.

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1.The sending State and the head of the mission shall be exempt from all national, regional or municipal dues and taxes in respect of the premises of the mission, whether owned or leased, other than such as represent payment for specific services rendered.

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$90m plan for new waterfront tower

Plans to build a $90 million building near Wellington's waterfront could lead to one of the largest demolition projects the central city has seen.

The current buildings on the Featherston St site would take 10 months to demolish, and the new building three years to build.

AMP Capital, which owns a property portfolio worth $1.9 billion, wants to knock over its $33.2 million 1970s building, known as the Gen-i Building, to build the 30,000-square-metre complex.

A 19-storey tower would front Featherston and Waring Taylor streets, a 10-storey wing would face Featherston and Ballance streets and a 15-storey wing would face Customhouse Quay. The budget for the project would be more than $90 million.

An AMP spokesman said the company had asked the council to make the application fully notified, meaning any member of the public can write in support of or oppose the plans.

"It's going to be a very prominent building. We do want a very open, transparent and robust consultation."

If granted consent, the new building will wrap around the Maritime Tower on Customhouse Quay and occupy the rest of the city block.

The building owners surrounding the site, including Sir Robert Jones, have already been notified, as have the tenants in the Gen-i Building. "There's been no feedback at this stage," the spokesman said. "The chance for formal feedback will come through the resource consent process."

Athfield Architects director John Hardwick-Smith said the biggest challenge would be building the "unusual" glass facade facing the waterfront.

"Externally the building has a striking and vibrant form. It's a building that we think contributes a lot to the city."

Public submissions to Wellington City Council can be made from today and close on November 7.

Council spokesman Richard MacLean said it was unlikely that the resource consent hearing would happen before Christmas.

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Ironmanfood said:

Well, I would hope it gets refused. The council will want/need to protect it's high paying commercial ratepayers in the CBD.

Not even mentioning that I personally don't want or like large suburban malls, of course I don't live in the northern suburbs, but let's keep Wellington lively and condensed.

As for Johsonville itself, do they reallly want to end up like Porirua or Lower Hutt? Those places are awful.

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Moveax said:

I agree, now is not the time for a sports centre.

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Marky Mark said:

But this Retail Centre seems to be in such a prime position , its a shame it wasn't a Mixed Use Development with Apartments on upper levels over looking the Water

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