Auckland Railway Station

I'm getting busier again... While preparing for my next examination on Construction and Structure for this coming Saturday, I'm busy packing my luggage as well. Well, I'll be going back to Malaysia on Sunday! I feel really excited, just can't wait to go back to see everyone, taste all the food I miss, watch all the movies that I had missed, play tennis with friends, shop as much as I can...... Whatever it is, the excitement is there!

Before I leave Auckland, let me share some more stuff with you all, let's talk about my present accommodation in Auckland. I'm staying in the Auckland Railway Campus, it's actual name is Auckland Railway Station. Before I go on, just to remind you all that this building is NO MORE Auckland's railway station, the current railway station is called Britomart. Just for your information, there are always tourists coming here thinking that this is a railway station. Yeah, it WAS, but NO MORE!

The Auckland Railway Station was built in 1930 by Gummer and Ford, the leading Architects in New Zealand during that time. It was converted into a student accommodation during the late 90's (I forgot the exact years, hehehe......). If you are an architecture student, you may notice that the design of this building has similarities with the buildings designed by Louis Sullivan, an American architect duirng that time as well. The Auckland Railway Station has a very grand foyer, it's ceilings are highly decorated. When you are in the concourse, you would notice that the wall tiles were specially designed tiles with illustrations on them.

To be frank, I really enjoy staying at this place. I think it's a beatiful place. Besides that, since I'm really familiar with this building, I used this building for my discussion in two of my assignments, they turned out well. Well, I guess that's all for now, I'll keep you updated with new photos after my exam, wish me luck!

The front facade of the Auckland Railway Station

It's built with bricks with 3 large arches at the facade and there is a clock at the centre of the cornice of the building

Highly decorated ceilings in the foyer, the floor is made of marble

The concourse, it is supported by large steel portals

The large chess set at the concourse

The wall tile

The dining room

The shared kitchen

Elegance in the Wild

It had been a busy week for me. I had finally completed my computing assignment and handed it up on Wednesday. I had my exam on Introduction to Architectural Theory on Wednesday and Introduction to Architectural Science yesterday. My next exam will be on next Saturday, so it's six day from now. Since it's "STILL" six day from now, I decided to give myself a break today, cheers!

Whenever I am walking by the road, I like to observe the surrounding. Long, long time ago, I had begun to notice that the wild flowers by the roadside are really, really beautiful. These flowers are simply amazing in the sense that, they are not just strong for not needing to be taken care of, in some way, I see elegance in them, they catches everyone's attention. To be frank, to some extent, I just could not resist them.

Ages ago I had already planned of bringing these flowers into my blog but I was just too busy. I finally got my chance just now...... The weather was fantastic, a great sunny day and since I was't planning to do any revision, instead of wasting my time, I decided to capture the elegance of these flowers. I went from bushes to bushes as well as squatting by the roadsides, drivers probably thought that I had lost my mind, BUT I knew that I was enjoying it. I hope you would enjoy yourself too......