Jul 262010
Jul 252010
Jul 042010
A Friday night busker dressed in traditional Japanese garb. He seemed to enjoy the camera and attracted quite a crowd just before I left him to it. Queen Street next to Vulcan Lane.
Another view of the Foster’s Ship’s Chandlery on Customs Street, Auckland City, showing new construction to the left of the image.
Jul 022010
Jul 022010
Newman Hall, Waterloo Crescent, Auckland City.
Feb 012010
A group of late night bar patrons approaches the back of The St James Theatre. Once one of the most sumptuously decorated cinemas in Auckland, along with nearby Civic Theatre, The St James is now nearly derelict. A monument to a bygone era, its seating and projection booths are gathering dust.
A couple of people relax on a piece of grass that lies between older buildings to the left, and new construction to the right, near Tyler Street. This whole area, that once contained a character-filled art deco bus terminal and surrounding curio shops, is being brutally torn to pieces in an attempt to “modernise” the city. Nearby, a 26 level tower has just been proposed by developers behind the historic Rose and Crown Tavern. A large sign on the front of the small building near the centre of the picture encourages prospective purchasers/developers to build a high rise building that will dwarf those on either side of it.
Fosters Ships Chandlery
Architecture, Black and White
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Jan 262010
A sunset casts an early evening shadow over the front of Fosters Ships Chandlery. Fosters has been in this building since the early 1900′s, when Alex Foster began the business. Before that, it occupied a small office on Fanshawe Street, facing the waterfront, until land reclamation allowed buildings to be built further towards what we now know as the Downtown Shopping Centre and Viaduct.