> A project was started a few months ago to get our City Mall area on > Cashel St reopened in time for Cup & Show week, which starts tomorrow. > A plan was drawn up to convert shipping containers into stores which > could be located on the sites where so many buildings in the area were > demolished. > > After some great efforts this new shopping area opened last weekend. > Yesterday we went in to have a look, and I took a couple of photos. > > http://www.multi.net.nz/re-start/ > > It's nice to be able to walk down that street again but most of the > stores aren't places I'd normally shop anyway. The highlight for me is > having Ballantynes open - they're a premium department store and an > iconic brand in this city. They are actually trading out of their > normal building but it's not quite the same as part of their building > had to be demolished. > > Cheers, > Dave
that container mall is interesting. One of my friends is a structural engineer who coincidentally spent some time in Haiti after their earthquake - he has many years of expertise in disaster zones. Over here one of the things he has built is low-cost starter homes made from containers. There are several of these sites in different parts of London. This is the original , which I believe is his - he works for the engineering firm that built it: <http://www.containercity.com/container-city-one.html> It's a fascinating development, full of interesting arty types amidst a riverside urban wasteland just across the Thames from me, but mixed in with old historical industrial buildings. Trinity House is the organisation that looks after lighthouses in the UK and they used this site as a testing station. B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
