Christchurch Boys High School War Memorial
These laid the world away, Pour out the red
Sweet wine of youth, gave up the years to be
Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene
Theat men call age, and those who would have been
Their sons, they ga...
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Two decades ago a man had an idea. That man was Alan Wylde, Wellington scientist, international art photographer, author and entrepreneur. Before Facebook and before Google Maps, Alan Wylde determined he would create a platform to celebrate and share the wonderful and diverse cultural landscape of New Zealand that he took joy in photographing. Here are Alan's places, here is NZPlaces.
READ MOREKohaihai to Heaphy Hut
The most dramatic leg of the Heaphy Track.
ViewBiological Sciences building -Te Toki a Rata - Victoria University of Wellington
Winding sinuously along Kelburn Parade the the Biological Sciences Building is an impressive addition to the streetscape.......
ViewVilla Isola Bella - Katherine Mansfield
New Zealand writers have taken up residence here since 1970.
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VAANA Peace Mural
At a crossroads where those crucial fluids, water and petrol, are stored, Auckland is now also stockpiling artwork.
ViewMount Victoria Summit - Tangi Te Keo
Lookout with a view of Wellington, the Hutt Valley and Cook Strait that's truly panoramic. There is a memorial to US explorer Admiral Richard E. Byrd. You can walk here from Courtenay Place. It will take about an hour. Car is faster but ...
ViewFo Guang Shan Buddhist Temple
Fo Guang Shan New Zealand was established to propagate the ideals of Humanistic Buddhism as expounded by Venerable Master Hsing Yun, founder of Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Order. There are two Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Temples in New Zealand, one i...
ViewRewi Alley memorial art in University campus Lanzhou
Rewi Alley and his buisness partner George Hogg are immortalised here in the province where they were revered for their educational exploits.
ViewThe Kumutoto Toilets
The Kumutoto Toilets are by Studio Pacific Architecture. They have a sculptural form looking like some kind of armour-plated insect or robotic dinosaur. They "have been selected as one of the world’s top 10 public toilets by website Desi...
ViewRutherfords Den
The place where Lord Ernest Rutherford carried out his early researches. Of course he was not a Lord then, he was one of 12 siblings from a working Nelson family, determined and intelligent, who won a scholarship to Canterbury in 1880. T...
ViewCarnegie Library Onehunga
A child friendly café (The Library Cafe and Function Venue) occupies an Edwardian-baroque Carnegie Library building dating from 1912. The designer was local architect and politician John Park. Andrew Carnegie was a New York industrialist...
ViewLake Mapourika
Many thousands of years ago when the Franz Josef Glacier was nameless and enormous, it stretched all the way to the sea. On it's retreat it left behind several massive inland icebergs. One is Lake Mapourika. The lake is dark and glimmering ...
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