The Architectural Centre Inc

Month: July 2009

  • Chris Moller – Click Raft

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    Award winning architect Chris Moller discusses a project inspired by Thoreau’s book Walden and the Citroen 2CV prototype. Click-Raft is a creative and sustainable response to the current economic situation. At the Wellington Museum of City and Sea. 23 August, at 5.00pm

  • Carolina Izzo

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    An Italian art tour with coffee & biscotti – at the Museum of City and Sea, on the 31st July at 5.30pm.  Join Carolina Izzo for an image-rich presentation about Italian works of art and find out about issues of conservation in Italy and NZ.

  • Video of the Week XXIV: more dancing …

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    … patterns, abstract music, positives, negatives, architectural conceptualisations, anthropomorphisms, references to video games, tartan, flowers, paper clips and 3D CAD … this movie has it all …

  • The End of an Era

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    Last Thursday (23rd July 2009) saw the end of an era as Bill Alington had his official farewell from teaching at the School of Architecture at Victoria University …

  • Love Lego?

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    From discussions with others, it seems that most architects have grown up with Lego. Years ago all you would get is a box of Lego bits, whereas nowadays a pre-determined object is decreed. But wouldn’t it be nice to go further than just a scale model of your architectural dream?

  • Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman

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    This documentary is a treasure trove of modernist architectural eyecandy, like a Taschen coffee table book come to life. ‘Visual acoustics’ is a coinage of photographer Julius Shulman, and the film is a celebration of his decades of work shooting architecture. Shulman was so intimately connected and concerned with promoting the homes created by the…

  • Blue Sky Competition

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    Update: Due TODAY ! Don’t forget ! Entry details below. We’re delighted to be a conduit for you to find out more about the Competition for the Outer-T of Queens Wharf here in Wellington. It’s been noted before that it may be coming up, and here it is at last – Wellington Waterfront Ltd have…

  • Pretty Buildings

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    I remember, on my first trip to Chicago, being completely impressed by the “girly” skyscrapers.

  • Video of the Week XXIII: the joy of dance!

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    I’ve been warned not to inflict the “Dancing with Architecture” series on you – but it’s time we had a bit of interdisciplinarity. The first clip “Dancing Buildings” sets the scene. Sedate, pleasureable, admittedly a little repetitive, but completely inoffensive.

  • New Zealand House

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    Not just any old New Zealand house, this is about THE New Zealand House. Hitting the news this week, and probably the gutter / talk back radio as well: Taxpayers face a $150 million bill to renovate New Zealand House in London – $23m more than the building’s book value. The newspaper seems