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36 NZ Transport Agency | War Memorial Tunnel Scoping Report | December 2010 Analysis The predominant orders of the city are defined by ▫ a combination of topography, historic water edges and historical street and property grid. These elements combine to create significant ▫ urban grid axes. These urban axes are predominately on the cities primary north/ south city grid and currently exist between: The Basin and the harbour (Kent/Cambridge) ▫ Mt Cook and the harbour (Taranaki St) ▫ Newtown and the City, and; ▫ In relation to the National War Memorial. ▫ The city is developing a hierarchy of ‘major’ and ▫ ‘minor’ north/south streets providing for a varying balance of vehicular and pedestrian traffic. The Basin is situated in a zone of transition ▫ between grids, axes and landforms. Opportunities Acknowledge the city grid by exact alignment or ▫ positive deviation in alignments of movements and structures. Improve legibility of the city structure and axes ▫ in the sequence, direction and elevation of movements. Consider how the grid is experienced and the ▫ spaces that are left. Acknowledge and appreciate the primary north/ ▫ south City grid by its crossing/ framing. Acknowledge and experience primary east/west ▫ axial alignments of the Memorial precinct within the context of the City order either side. Acknowledge the hierarchy of ‘major’ and ‘minor’ ▫ north/south streets in their legibility, character and proportions. Enhance structure and definition to the ▫ intersections traversed by SH1 traffic. Grids & Axis 1840 Street Grid Major Roads that break the Grid Major Axis Minor Axis KEY N Fig. 21 Landform, Grids and Axis
