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Bettering Canterbury’s housing stock for greater sustainability should be a key pillar in any rebuilding planning, says the CEO of New Zealand Green Building Council, Alex Cutler. |
 The old Ministry of Works approach to public amenities has long gone in this country. A bus shelter used to be just that − somewhere to dodge the rain while waiting for the next number 9 to come along. Urban designer Sheerin Samsudeen offers an insight into ‘placemaking’. |
 The stylish footbridge conceived by New Plymouth District Council and built locally has won plaudits from the International Bridge Conference. Open since June 5 last year it is also in the running for another international prize. |
 It will likely be next year before the rebuilding of Christchurch and neighbouring communities begins in earnest, and that work will be in the hands of new government department, called the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority. |
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Anyone who knows anything about the housing market knows that affordable housing is a concept that increasingly just doesn’t apply in parts of this country. With low wages on an international scale and a shortage of new housing, the sums just don’t add up.
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 Many people have questioned where the money will come from to resurrect Christchurch and to finance house building and repair across New Zealand. A better question might be, where will we find the builders? |
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Hearing-impaired and deaf people are more at risk from fires in their homes because conventional smoke alarms give them little or no warning. The National Foundation for the Deaf the situation needs action from government.
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 There’s been a call for Auckland Council to get tough with central Government on building projects that blight Auckland’s skyline. An Auckland councillor, Cameron Brewer, is criticising the design and placement of the new prison in Eden Terrace, which towers over the motorway near Khyber Pass. |
Hawke’s Bay structural engineers who assisted with quake damage assessment in Christchurch are now looking nervously at their own back yard. |
 National architectural practice Warren and Mahoney working with a group of other leading New Zealand urban planning and design experts to look to the future of Christchurch City. The firm is keen to see a collective response. |
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