What's to become of our lighthouses, strikingly elegant and reassuring on coastal cliff tops and rocky outcrops? Soaring maintenance costs and cheaper alternatives threaten their future.
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Lonely is the lighthouse keeper doggedly tending the light and heroically on hand for shipwreck rescues - or that is the romantic vision. Routine maintenance, regular weather reports and interminable paperwork is closer to reality.
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Memories of war can be represented in many ways that seek to create footprints or places that allow the past and the future to intersect. The special place that the 28 Maori attalion holds in the country's heritage is no more honoured than in the marae dining rooms along the North Island's East Coast.
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New owners of a slice of Coromandel Peninsula history have set about regenerating the optimism with which the Kikowhakarere by Hoise was built. Learn about a labour of love.
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Pioneers of skiing in New Zealand are figures often thought of as exemplars of the Kiwi spirit - intrepid adventurers, dedicated amateurs, innovative engineers and aspiring entrepreneurs. Like an avalanche, skiing developed slowly at first and then gathered undeniable momentum.
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Coberger is the name associated with the first competitor from the Southern Hemisphere to win a medal in the Winter Olympics, a silver in the slalom at the 1992 Games in Albertville, France. But, through Annelise Coberger's immediate forbears, the name was already imbedded in the history of New Zealand skiing.
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Looking back at a Palmerston North icon whose historical record was nearly a casualty of its new owner's renovating efforts.
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When should a building first be eligible for listing? Are we waiting too long and losing the best of our architectural heritage? Are we preserving survivors rather than key examples?
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A restoration plan for Auckland's Britomart heritage area has finally been adopted.
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Auckland on the surface is a city without a past. Why does it appear to repudiate its past?
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Do heritage buildings cost more to insure?
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Architect Ernst Plishcke's New Zealand work is being honoured in his own country and with an exhibition here.
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The iconic South Island high country could be divided into productive use and conservation land. But heritage values risk being lost in the process.
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Recognising the value of our historic cemeteries - a treasure trove of information about the past.
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Deciding what merits World Heritage listing and why.
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