(edited) The site of the sculpture garden is the site of the former Broadcasting House, torn down a number of years ago. It was the home of Radio NZ, and housed (probably) THE best sound recording studios in NZ -- and it sucks BIG TIME that it got torn down.
But shit happens.
And the sculpture garden is tres luvverly. Sometimes, if you're lucky, some very good can come out of the very bad.
@Che: I dunno if you know, but the sculptures are supposed to represent the lifestyle and so on of the pre-European inhabitants of that spot, which pre-reclamation was pretty much the foreshore. So there's (from memory) the seabird, the root vegetable, and the canoe-thing. Idyllic, huh.
And if you go up to them and kinda play with them a bit and check them out, you really gotta say: "These are really awesome things".
(edited) The site of the sculpture garden is the site of the former Broadcasting House, torn down a number of years ago. It was the home of Radio NZ, and housed (probably) THE best sound recording studios in NZ -- and it sucks BIG TIME that it got torn down.
But shit happens.
And the sculpture garden is tres luvverly. Sometimes, if you're lucky, some very good can come out of the very bad.
@Che: I dunno if you know, but the sculptures are supposed to represent the lifestyle and so on of the pre-European inhabitants of that spot, which pre-reclamation was pretty much the foreshore. So there's (from memory) the seabird, the root vegetable, and the canoe-thing. Idyllic, huh.
And if you go up to them and kinda play with them a bit and check them out, you really gotta say: "These are really awesome things".
At least, I do.