Another view of the Foster’s Ship’s Chandlery on Customs Street, Auckland City, showing new construction to the left of the image.
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.
Expensive designer clothing stores line the bottom of the Bucklands Building. One of our oldest buildings still standing, built around 1897 but not named until 1936 when J.H Buckland & Co. Ltd moved in with their enigneering supplies business. It is currently interim office spaces and the top floor is a very nice place to work in indeed. It is due for a complete restoration as part of the Britomart district redevelopment plan.
Jan 122010
Asian tourists wait for a cab outside the Mercure Hotel. On the other side of the road is an Esquire Cafe, which some time ago, I was sitting outside minding my own business when, what I assumed was an escaped mental patient sat down next to me and started mumbling nonsense. After a group of asian kids walked past, the escaped mental patient’s eyes lit up and he shouted, “Hey! Dragon Ball Z!” There was some confusion and I thought it was one of the strangest and funniest things I’d ever seen.
Jan 062010
A girl pushes her friend past one of the numerous money exchange kiosks in the cities tourist shopping hotspot, the downtown district.
Window display at The Lonely Dog Gallery on the corner of Custom Street and Commerce street. The gallery has gone through a number of identities in an equal number of years. Currently it hosts the work of Queenstown artist Ivan Clarke. These great looking highly detailed marquees, based on Ivan’s paintings, were created at Weta Workshop.
Dec 292009
The West side of the Britomart Train Station, formerly the Main Post Office. This was recently shown at The High Seas as part of the Auckland Festival of Photography for 2010.