Take a journey through New Zealand's cultural landscape to thousands of places where people and nature have connected. Add your poetry, writing, artwork or photography. Tell us in your way about your experiences of New Zealand. Here are the latest additions to the growing world of NZPlaces
READ MOREUrban Design is finally finding it's way into commercial and industrial enclaves, with surprising results. The North Shore, burgeoning and booming, has become a testing ground for new planning and design, and found a petrie dish for heal...
ViewThe crops hint at the diversity of the neighbourhood. So an allotment of bok-choy sits adjacent to one of taro, while a run of Jerusalem artichokes emerges from a colourful little riot of spring pansies. There’s also a thriving bed...
ViewMayor/architect Michael Fowler invited Miles Warren of Warren and Mahoney to replicate the Christchurch Town Hall which he did but with better acoustics. It was officially opened in 1983. In acknowledgment of his efforts in promoting its...
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The oldest stone wharf in Australasia, and it is still operating too.
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Here is an exact replica of the HMS Buffalo, a ship wrecked off Whitianga on the Coromandel Peninsula after a short and eventful life in the adventurous early 19th Century.
ViewHere is the memorial to the HMS Buffalo, and her two lost crewmen. The wreck is here too, just 50 metres offshore, where it has been since July 28, 1840.
ViewNewman Hall built in 1863 for one of Auckland’s most spectacularly successful businessmen, David Nathan of LD Nathans. Bella Vista, as it was then called is of imported brick and has a portico of Bath stone. It is owned now by the Cathol...
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If you want to fish the Mercury Islands, there are opportunities to hook snapper, kahawai, kingfish, trevally, John Dory, golden snapper, pink mao mao, terakihi and grouper and maybe even Porae, blue moki and blue cod. A ...
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