As Entourage’s Ari Gold would put it: Boom! I just can’t get enough of this jewel, Nelson’s famous centerpiece of concrete creativity. Here in an exciting shot by jenniferever27.

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Photo © 2010 jenniferever27. Original here.

On his very elegant website, Murray Neill offers an antidote to us: it could be also described as “Beautiful New Zealand.com”.

The photo above is from a cool series of aerial shots, taken with a kite. But even all this talent and technical equipment can’t turn Nelson’s infamous Central Post Office / City Council building into a beauty queen. Good for us! :)

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Photo © 2010 Murray Neill. Original here.

The Centre City Shopping Centre… – Centre? Centre! Fo’ shizzle! – in New Plymouth features a groovy little home-made slide-show-style movie on its groovy website. Not too surprisingly, they don’t feature many exterior shots of their clever little concrete construction accentuating the coast line.

A superb contribution by mitchyyyyy. Mitchyyyyy? Mitchyyyyy! Fo’ shizzle! Dizzle Bizzle!

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Photo © 2010 mitchyyyyy. Original here.

And from the streets of Auckland came… THE UGLY ART MONSTROSITY THING!!! And while everybody else ran, screaming, Brianne Karabetsos kept calm and got the camera ready…

Photo © 2010 Brianne Karabetsos. Original here.

Here is a particularly bland – and shady – bench in Invercargill.

This one is not only incredibly great, it would be also a strong candidate for Martin Parr’s book “Boring Postcards”. Well, or at least for its swedish web predecessor, Retroglobe. Well, or at least for the pale rip-off of them both… – us.

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This explains sooooooooo much! If not everything.

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Patricia Laurenson worked with a briefing resembling one of the ideas behind this blog: “My creative theme was ‘bad 1950s photos that would have been thrown away’”. Mission accomplished!

By the way: we also accept bad photos from the 1960–2010s, in case there was any doubt…

Photo © 2010 Patricia Laurenson. Original here.

Skate parks and railway tracks: the Romeo and Juliet of contemporary urban planning. Here a view on Invercargill’s facilities, humming of vibrancy and Wildstyle-ness.

A new contributor to ‘Ugly New Zealand’: welcome to Bekdawg and her exquisite photos of New Zealand’s flip side! Can there be a better photo to kiss 2009 goodbye?

Photo © 2009 Bekdawg.