Comments on: How safe is the City to Sea Bridge?

By: Curtis Nixon

Curtis Nixon — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 08:01:23 +0000

Personally I can’t stand the portico – it looks like an ugly after-thought slung between the library and council offices. I would prefer open sky myself.

By: Maximus

Maximus — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 20:32:06 +0000

No, not closed Helene, generally the posts on the Fish are open for a month… enough time for you to climb back down and stay involved. There will be plenty of buildings to fight for – I’m just not at all convinced that this is one of them…

By: Councillor Helene Ritchie

Councillor Helene Ritchie — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 06:47:14 +0000

Great comments on the Eye of the Fish.
I would like to add to these when I clamber out of the mountains and bush and have reliable internet..but the site is now closed??

Helene Ritchie
Councillor

By: Maximus

Maximus — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 03:43:37 +0000

Councilor Ritchie, I'm not sure that your crusade against impending demolition is warranted. As an element of fine architectural quality, the portico is somewhat lacking in several attributes, none-the-least-of which is whether people actually care. There is a healthy discussion on this going on over at Eye of the Fish at present....

By: Trish

Trish — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 02:16:31 +0000

If it would cost more of the ratepayers’ money to strengthen the link building, I would be happy to spend a lesser sum on replacing it with a sculptured arch. If it were lower, and more defined, it could make an even more dramatic contribution to the entrance than what’s there now.

By: Michael G.

Michael G. — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 23:35:53 +0000

Helene, I am still looking forward to your ringing me back as you promised me a week or two ago!

By: Cr Helene Ritchie

Cr Helene Ritchie — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 21:56:20 +0000

I am most concerned about the demolition of the Portico approved by the Executive Leadership Team. This work should not proceed further without Mayor and Council discussion and decision.
The Portico provides an important “grand” “archway”entrance to Civic Square, Civic Centre, City Gallery,Town Hall City to Sea Bridge and Waterfront. It is the entrance for many processions and marches, provides a welcome to our civic public spaces. It is as much a sculpture and feature as is Neil Dawson’s fern ball beyond it. It is linked in architecture to the buildings on either side of it.
Councillors need far more information on this and options. As the Councillor /deputy mayor who led the Civic Centre project in the late eighties, I am opposed to this piece of civic vandalism and would have to see compelling information on alternatives before I ever agreed to it.
I also want the public to have a say on the proposed demolition of this important (and heritage) part of our civic architecture.

By: Richard MacLean

Richard MacLean — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:31:20 +0000

The Council is satisfied that the City to Sea Bridge is safe for public use. The yellow notice on the door of Capital E obviously indicates that we consider the building to be quake-prone but it does not mean that either the building or the bridge can’t be used. There are now scores of buildings around town that have yellow notices but they are still in use.