Road Trip to Wellington , New Zealand

Most Pimped out Burger King ever! I believe it's in an old bank building

phone booth

Rail way station:

According to Wikipedia : When completed in 1937 the station was New Zealand’s largest building, partly because it was designed to accommodate 675 head office and district office staff.^[2] The land upon which it is built is reclaimed, and it was the first major New Zealand structure to incorporate a significant measure of earthquake resistance. It was constructed by Fletcher Building as one of its first major construction projects. It was designed by New Zealander W. Gray Young, famous for his neo-Georgian styles.

When it opened in 1937, Wellington's two former stations closed, removing the inconvenience of separate stations for the two routes out of Wellington: Lambton (on 19 June), built by New Zealand Government Railways to serve the Wairarapa line; and Thorndon (on 8 June), built by theWellington and Manawatu Railway Company to serve what became the North Island Main Trunkvia Johnsonville.

It has a steel frame encased in reinforced concrete and supported on groups of reinforced concrete piles. Bricks used for the outer cladding are of a special design, with slots to accommodate vertical rods reinforcing the brickwork and binding it to the structural members. It required 1.75 million bricks, plus 1500 tonnes of decorative granite and marble. The station is registered as a Category I Historic Place.^[3]

The station was used in a 2009 TV advert in the United Kingdom for a train ticketing company,TheTrainLine, where a large flock of sheep use the station facilities.^[4]

Parliament

  

Parliament-beehive

Wikipedia: The Parliament was established by the British New Zealand Constitution Act 1852 which established abicameral legislature. This produced a parliament very similar to Britain's, with a lower house, called the General Assembly, and an upper house, called the Legislative Council. The members of the General Assembly were elected under the First Past the Post system, but the members of the Council were appointed. For the most part, the Council rubber-stamped legislation the lower house wished to pass, very rarely playing any notable part in the policy process.

Due to this ineffectiveness, the National government of 1951 abolished the Legislative Council, making New Zealand legislature unicameral. Parliament received full control over all New Zealand affairs in 1947 with the passage of the Statute of Westminster Adoption Act, and the ability to amend its composition with the New Zealand Constitution Amendment Act 1947 (UK). In 1986 a new Constitution Act was passed, restating the 1852 Act's provisions and consolidating the legislation establishing Parliament.

Wellington cenotaph

Wellington cenotaph

It reads: These laid the world away poured out the red sweet wine of youth. Gave up the years to be of work and joy and that unhoped serene that men call age and those who would have been their sons they gave their immortality

Supreme Court of New Zealand. This building was opened on the 18th of Jan 2010 by His Royal Highness Prince William K.G. on behalf of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Queen of New Zealand