Ferry terminal, Auckland. Designed by Alexander Wiseman and completed in 1912. Image: Su Leslie 2018
Not old by international standards — nor even amongst the earliest buildings in Auckland — but the Ferry Terminal is one of the few remaining stone buildings in a CBD increasingly crowded with steel and glass towers.
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I wish we wouldn’t build towers. I don’t think they are suited to the NZ landscape.
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I totally agree. Downtown has become a horrible, gloomy canyon.
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😦 😦
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Brings back memories
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Not much else of old Auckland left. Do you remember the Wrangler Cowboy? It was a neon sign above a shop on Queen Street. I mentioned it to someone the other day and she looked at me like I was nuts and now I’m wondering if I imagined it.
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Yes it vaguely comes to mind. He was throwing a lassoe if I remember rightly
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Gracious 📸
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i love the old, it has so much more character
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I agree!!
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The older architecture has some much more detail – which makes them a classic!
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That’s so true. 🙂
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It’s a pretty building!
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It is; and much-loved by Aucklanders.
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I hope it is under protection, would be horrible to lose such a charming building. CBDs all over the world look so much alike that it is only by keeping some historic buildings that makes them worth visiting.
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🙂 It is listed by Heritage NZ and so protected. With tourism so important to NZ, and the ferries playing quite a big part in Auckland tourism, I think its beauty is being appreciated more. Thank goodness!!!!
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It’s the only building with beauty and character, Su.
Leslie
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I agree. I can vaguely remember the skyline before the tower blocks, when the Ferry Building was the biggest thing you saw approaching the wharf.
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It is so much more impressive than the tall buildings.
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Great image. The warmth and colour of the older building easily beat the blues of the more modern structures
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I love old stone buildings. There is a warmth and grandness about them that no glass and concrete tower can ever hope to compete. I doubt that in a 100 years people will be looking at them and marvelling at their beauty and craftsmanship.
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Beautiful building. It has a taste of Flinders Street Station about it.
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😀 finished around the same time, although Flinders Street was a much bigger project and had been started much earlier. Interestingly, the Ferry Building is faced in Pyrmont stone imported from Sydney, while Flinders Street is apparently rendered brick. And Flinders Street has a ballroom — naturally 🤔
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Yeah, I’ve never quite understood the ballroom. I do hope it reopens one day, though.
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What a lovely jewel of the old decadent days! Too bad though that they surround it with those rather dull skyscrapers, but it happens everywhere and we can count ourselves lucky if they let the old ones stay.
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Couldn’t agree more. It just keeps getting worse here, with even the old skyscrapers being crowded out by the new ones 🙁
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SU-per photo of the old building. Still useful too.
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