Introduction

Imagine a time when life was so certain that when you built a building for your business you were confident enough in the future that you put the name of the business into the very fabric of the building.

This is not a time of mergers and takeovers of globalisation and restructure, this is when life was more local and certain.

There are a number of such buildings around and so this blog is an attempt to record some of them and more importantly a bit of the history of the business which by and large are no longer with us.

If you know something about any of these business please add a comment. You can do this without having to sign up for anything and can be anonomous if you prefer.



Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Recent confidence


This is 22 Camp Street, Queenstown

Spotted this on a recent trip to Queenstown, apparantly the optomisim of an earlier age is not completely dead with ASB Bank confident enough that they will survive the building.

In Queenstown they may be right but mostly because I would be surprised if this building lasts its design life and is much more likely to be torn down for redevelopment long before it is worn out.
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