Colleen Hawkes20:00, May 06 2021
Ten new houses received Housing Awards in the NZIA Wellington Architecture Awards.
Social housing and bespoke homes were both winners in a Wellington awards ceremony celebrating the best architecture in the region. Two Kāinga Ora social housing developments, one in Mt Cook and one in Porirua, took out both the Housing – Multi Unit awards at the Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects Wellington Awards, while 10 new houses won Housing Awards. The Kāinga Ora Hanson Street development of 20 one-bedroom homes in Mt Cook, by Herriot Melhuish O’Neill Architects, and the Castor Crescent development in Porirua by Tennent Brown Architects received special mention from the awards judges.
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Minister for Covid-19 Response Chris Hipkins says NZ s tracer app use over summer has been woeful. (Video first published on December 29, 2020)
When avid QR code scanner Reimer Freitag witnessed a courier driver deliver a package to a Wellington library and leave again, without scanning in, it made him wonder if companies are doing enough to protect their staff from the risk of spreading Covid-19. Roughly half a million QR code scans are being recorded on the NZ Covid Tracer app, down from a high of 2.5 million per day in early September. Freitag said he felt like he was part of the small portion of New Zealanders who still diligently scanned into places they visited using the Covid Tracer app.