38-516: Central Business District Thorndon is a historic inner suburb of Wellington , the capital city of New Zealand. Because the suburb is relatively level compared to the hilly terrain elsewhere in Wellington it contained Wellington's elite residential area until it changed in the 1960s with the building of a new motorway and the erection of tall office buildings on the sites of its Molesworth Street retail and service businesses. Before Thorndon
76-528: A very rough triangle. Starting from the triangle's lower south-west corner, at the intersection of Glenmore Street and Collins Terrace, the boundary goes up through the north side of Te Ahumairangi Hill right across to Wadestown's Weld Street and down to the north end of Frandi Street. Then the boundary follows the west side of Thorndon Quay down until Davis Street where it zig-zags through to Hill Street then over to Bowen Street, Tinakori Road and Glenmore Street up to its junction with Collins Terrace. Queen's Park
114-463: Is a suburban community central to a large city, or at the inner city and central business district . The urban density is usually lower than the inner city or central business district, but higher than that of the city's rural–urban fringe, or exurbs . In the Commonwealth countries (especially England and New Zealand ), inner suburbs are the part of the urban area that constitutes
152-460: Is connected to the rest of the parliamentary complex by a tunnel under Bowen Street which contains a travelator . Not part of the current parliamentary complex and on the other side of Lambton Quay , this four-storey building was designed by William Clayton and built in 1876. The former Government Buildings currently house Victoria University of Wellington 's Law School as part of Victoria's Pipitea campus. Several rooms featuring displays of
190-456: Is referred to colloquially as " The Beehive ". The building is ten storeys and 72 metres (236 ft) high. The top floor is occupied by the Cabinet room, with the prime minister's office on the floor immediately below. The offices of individual ministers, various function rooms, and Bellamy's restaurant occupy the first three floors. In the late 1990s there was consideration of moving
228-538: Is set to be completed in time for the 2026 election. The land intended for the second stage of Parliament House is occupied by the Executive Wing. This building conceived by British architect Sir Basil Spence in 1964, largely designed by the Ministry of Works, was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1977. The first parliamentary offices moved into the building in 1979. Due to its distinctive shape, it
266-611: The 2013 census , and an increase of 543 people (15.6%) since the 2006 census . There were 1,860 households, comprising 1,923 males and 2,097 females, giving a sex ratio of 0.92 males per female. The median age was 32.9 years (compared with 37.4 years nationally), with 312 people (7.8%) aged under 15 years, 1,443 (35.9%) aged 15 to 29, 1,833 (45.6%) aged 30 to 64, and 432 (10.7%) aged 65 or older. Ethnicities were 79.0% European/ Pākehā , 6.9% Māori , 2.5% Pasifika , 17.2% Asian , and 3.7% other ethnicities. People may identify with more than one ethnicity. The percentage of people born overseas
304-710: The Appeal and High Courts —the Supreme Court is on Lambton Quay facing Parliament— the National Library and Archives New Zealand . The national museum moved from behind Parliament in Museum Street to a much larger purpose-built building in Buckle Street just before the second world war then in 1998 to the harbour edge and is now Te Papa Tongarewa . Thorndon is home to two Cathedrals:
342-692: The Central Business District . Pipitea has been said to have been named for the pipi beds along Thorndon Quay. Ngāti Mutunga from Taranaki established the fortified village, Pipitea Pā, in 1824 on the Haukawakawa flats. Then the Ngāti Mutunga left on the sailing ship Rodney in 1835 settling in the Chatham Islands and Te Āti Awa occupied the pā. The pā declined after European settlement though some people remained there into
380-554: The Norwegian and Swedish Consulates-General. "Wellington's Show Walk". Thorndon Esplanade with its baths and shrubs lies beneath Aotea Quay. Its band rotunda was sent to Central Park in 1921. Built at the end of the 1880s on the reclamation of the Manawatu Railway Company and intended to be a place of fashionable display it did not survive the first World War. It had become dirty and disreputable suffering from
418-404: The zone of transition , which lies outside the central business district , as well as the (traditional) working class zone . The inner suburbs of large cities are the oldest and often the most dense residential areas of the city. They tend to feature a high level of mixed-use development . Traditionally, suburbs have been home to the working class , but as manufacturing jobs have migrated to
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#1732793378885456-658: The 1879. Hobson Street Tinakori Road Fitzherbert Terrace Hawkestone Street and Portland Crescent Hill Street Sydney Street West Bowen Street Murphy Street Thorndon Quay Glenmore Street Many embassies, high commissions and consulates are located in Thorndon including: the US , Chinese , Cuban , German , Italian , Philippine , Thai and Turkish Embassies; the Australian , British , Canadian , Cook Islands , Fijian , Indian , and Niue High Commissions; and
494-534: The 20th century. There were other villages near 191 Thorndon Quay and near the junction of Hobson Street with Fitzherbert Terrace. The Pā's gardens reached parliament grounds and the Botanic Garden . A mural Kaiota was painted in 2023 on Bowen Street referencing Māori cultivations of the area of the homesteads Pakuo Pā and Raurimu Kainga. Part of the previous pā site opened in 1980 as an urban marae. The site transferred to Te Āti Awa/Taranaki whānui as part of
532-776: The Anglican St Paul's Cathedral built between 1937 and 1998 to replace the pro-cathedral now known as Old St Paul's , which in turn had replaced a church on the site of the Beehive in 1844; and the Roman Catholic Sacred Heart Cathedral in Hill Street, opened in 1901 to replace the destroyed St Mary's Cathedral in Eccleston Hill dating from 1851. The Thistle Inn is one of New Zealand's oldest pubs. Thorndon occupies
570-547: The Beehive behind Parliament House, and finishing Parliament House according to the 1911 original plans. The plan was quickly scuttled due to a lack of public support and concerns about cost. Completed in 1899, the Parliamentary Library is the oldest of the buildings. It stands to the north of Parliament House (to its right, looking from the front). The library was designed in Gothic Revival style and
608-562: The Maori settlement of Pipitea and the New Zealand Company named all the flats Thorndon after the estate of W H F Petre one of their directors. Thorndon statistical area covers 1.49 km (0.58 sq mi). It had an estimated population of 4,310 as of June 2024, with a population density of 2,893 people per km. Thorndon had a population of 4,020 at the 2018 New Zealand census , an increase of 333 people (9.0%) since
646-572: The Metropolitan United States , Professor Bernadette Hanlon defines inner-ring suburbs as "contiguous suburbs adjacent to one another and to the central city, where more than half the housing stock was built prior to 1969". New Zealand Parliament Buildings New Zealand Parliament Buildings ( Māori : Ngā whare Paremata ) house the New Zealand Parliament and are on a 45,000 square metre site at
684-409: The first Sunday of December. The fair has many stalls selling crafts and second-hand goods and is held for the benefit of Thorndon School . It is one of the main community events held in Thorndon. Parts of Tinakori Road and Hill Street are closed during the fair. Wellington Regional Stadium is in Thorndon and hosts sporting events and concerts. The Thorndon Tennis (and Squash) Club was established in
722-410: The first stage begin in 1914, but without much of the roof ornamentation or the roof domes. The outbreak of World War I created labour and material shortages that made construction difficult. However, members of Parliament (MPs) were so desperate to get out of the run-down old Government House that they moved into the unfinished building in 1918. In 1922, the first stage was completed (the second stage
760-741: The increased activity in the smoky railway yards alongside. Its coprosmas and "gallant pohutukawas" never grew larger seeming to lack any care from the City Council but the wind and the poor soil and the grimy railway yard discouraged plants and visitors. "Lovers seemed to monopolise the gardens in the evenings". The salt water baths were closed in 1920 and the superstructure moved to Evans Bay for dressing sheds. New baths opened in Murphy Street in November 1924 with certain hours set aside for mixed bathing. Inner suburb An inner suburb
798-474: The individual buildings are outstanding for different reasons, the overall setting that has been achieved "has little aesthetic or architectural coherence". The main building of the complex is Parliament House, containing the debating chamber , speaker's office, visitors' centre, and committee rooms. The first Parliament (then called the "General Assembly") was housed in the wooden two storey Provincial Council Building (1870s addition by William Clayton ). It
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#1732793378885836-544: The lawns, and vandalised Parliament Buildings. In 2022, then-Speaker of the House Trevor Mallard announced a new six-story building complex behind Parliament House on Museum Street. It takes the place of what was formerly Parliament's carpark, and is designed to house MPs that can no longer be accommodated in the main building. The complex will be constructed out of wood to allow high earthquake resilience in combination with base isolation technology. It
874-491: The local Treaty Settlement in 2009. Pipitea Marae and its meeting house, Te Upoko o te Ika a Māui, is a meeting place for Taranaki Whānui ki te Upoko o te Ika and Te Āti Awa . Thorndon, like Te Aro, is one of the few comparatively flat areas on the harbour. Haukawakawa / Thorndon flats became a significant part of Port Nicholson's first organised European settlement in 1840. S C Brees described it in 1848 as "the court end of town". European settlers built their houses alongside
912-554: The northern end of Lambton Quay , Wellington . From north to south, they are the Parliamentary Library building (1899); the Edwardian neoclassical -style Parliament House (1922); the executive wing, called " The Beehive " (1977); and Bowen House (in use since 1991). Currently, an additional building for housing Members of Parliament is under construction, which is expected to be completed in 2026. Whilst most of
950-472: The northern end of the narrow coastal plain that makes up the heart of Wellington. It is flanked to the north by the green hills of Wadestown , by Northland and Kelburn to the west and south, and on its south Pipitea with the Government Centre, the marae and to its east the port facilities of Wellington Harbour . Thorndon now incorporates Te Ahumairangi Hill . The boundaries of Thorndon form
988-454: The old building burnt down, a contest was created for the new parliament building, which was won by Government Architect John Campbell . His design was divided into two stages. The first half, a Neoclassical building, contained both chambers and the second half Bellamy's (the parliamentary dining facility) and a new Gothic Revival library to replace the existing one. Despite cost concerns, Prime Minister William Massey let construction of
1026-585: The periphery of cities, many inner suburbs have become gentrified . In the United States , inner suburbs (sometimes known as "first-ring" suburbs) are the older, more populous communities of a metropolitan area that experienced urban sprawl before the post–World War II baby boom , thus significantly predating those of their outer suburban or exurban counterparts. In Once the American Dream: Inner-Ring Suburbs of
1064-539: The roof including ironwork, turrets and finials. It still houses Parliament's library. The building is registered with Heritage New Zealand (previously called the New Zealand Historic Places Trust) as a Category 1 heritage structure with registration number 217. A 22-storey office building across Bowen Street from the Beehive, Bowen House houses MPs' offices and support staff and has been leased by Parliamentary Services since 1991. It
1102-518: The setting that has been achieved "has little aesthetic or architectural coherence", especially through the construction of the Beehive instead of completion of Parliament House. In February 2022, many anti-COVID-19 vaccine mandate protestors converged outside Parliament House. They set up tents on the lawn, occupying the parliamentary precinct, and blockaded nearby Molesworth Street . The protestors were cleared by Police on 2 March, after nearly four weeks. The protestors set fires and caused damage to
1140-622: The urban motorway was built and incorporates the Lady McKenzie Garden for the Blind. The Wellington Botanic Garden is situated between the suburbs of Thorndon and Kelburn. Schools located in Thorndon include Wellington Girls' College , St Mary's College , Queen Margaret College and primary schools Thorndon School and Sacred Heart Cathedral School . Thorndon Farmers Market is set up each Saturday in Hill Street. The Thorndon Fair has been almost every year since 1977, usually on
1178-488: Was $ 52,900, compared with $ 31,800 nationally. 1,281 people (34.5%) earned over $ 70,000 compared to 17.2% nationally. The employment status of those at least 15 was that 2,469 (66.6%) people were employed full-time, 435 (11.7%) were part-time, and 129 (3.5%) were unemployed. The buildings of the New Zealand Parliament are located in Thorndon. Thorndon is also the location of national institutions including
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1216-468: Was 36.6, compared with 27.1% nationally. Although some people chose not to answer the census's question about religious affiliation, 55.1% had no religion, 29.9% were Christian , 0.3% had Māori religious beliefs , 3.1% were Hindu , 1.3% were Muslim , 1.7% were Buddhist and 3.7% had other religions. Of those at least 15 years old, 2,193 (59.1%) people had a bachelor's or higher degree, and 114 (3.1%) people had no formal qualifications. The median income
1254-405: Was Thorndon it was Haukawakawa and in 1824 Pipitea Pā was settled at its southern end. More recently Pipitea Marae and the land under the Government Centre have been separated from Thorndon and the name Pipitea returned in 2003. The reclamations have been included in the new suburb Pipitea . Thorndon combines the home of government and residential accommodation. It is located at the northern end of
1292-548: Was built in 2003, although it was planned to be opened in 2000 to mark the millennium of Hungary being a Christian state. It is the only Hungarian monument in New Zealand. It incorporates a paved area, seating, planted garden beds, a carved gate and memorial plaques. The Katherine Mansfield Memorial Park in Fitzherbert Terrace is dedicated to the writer Katherine Mansfield . It was created in the late 1960s when
1330-472: Was created to commemorate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897. It is bounded by Grant Road, Wadestown Road and Park Road with a fountain at the intersection of Grant Road and Wadestown Road. Trees in the park are a mixture of natives and exotics including a stand of oak trees. The Magyar Millennium Park, commonly known as the Hungarian garden, is on the corner of Molesworth Street and Hawkestone Street. It
1368-432: Was fire resistant, being constructed of masonry. The third storey of the design was not built, to save money. It had an iron fire-door separating the library from the main entrance section. This saved the library from the fire of 1907, which destroyed the rest of the timber parliament buildings. Along with Parliament House, the library was strengthened and refurbished in the 1990s. This included recreating Gothic elements of
1406-477: Was never built). Beginning in 1992, extensive work was undertaken to strengthen the building. Parliament House was finally officially opened in 1995 by Elizabeth II , Queen of New Zealand , after its refurbishment. The intention of the Liberal Government was for the design to be implemented in stages, eventually resulting in a coherent architectural setting. Instead, as Heritage New Zealand remarks,
1444-494: Was replaced by the 1880s three-storey Gothic Revival building by Thomas Turnbull ) and containing many indigenous timbers but was destroyed by fire in 1907 along with all other parliament buildings except the library. The library had an iron fire-door that saved its collections. Following the destruction of the building the Parliament occupied the adjacent Government House (where the Beehive now sits) for ten years. After
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