Day: March 25, 2009

  • Mock Deco

    Following on from my previous comments on the great work of the Art Deco Trust in Napier, its also worth looking at the efforts, some good, some bad, of architects and others who have tried to replicate the art deco look in that city. There were 3 good heritage buildings knocked down, with two of…

  • Letting Dwell – exhibition by Tim Larkin & Luke Feast

    Where: The New Dowse, Lower Hutt When: till May 10 Tim Larkin won the 2008 Deane Award for Decorative Arts with a proposal based on the long-redundant, yet highly efficient food safe. Larkin, writer Luke Feast and photographer Pete McColl, have created a body of work that explores the food safe and its unique architectural…

  • One Day Sculpture Symposium : Jane Rendell (keynote)

    CRITICAL SPATIAL PRACTICE : A KEYNOTE ADDRESS BY JANE RENDELL THURSDAY 26 MARCH 2009, 6PM SOUNDINGS THEATRE, TE PAPA, WELLINGTON Keynote lecture costs $15 waged / $10 unwaged Coordinators of the One Day Sculpture Project, hosted by Massey University as a Litmus Research Initiative, are please to invite the Wellington architectural community to participate in…

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