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Month: December 2009

  • ONZM

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    Hooray!  At last there has been some recognition of Architects in the New Years Honours list.  Today, it was announced, that two men were to be recognised for their services to Architecture: John David Sutherland, of Auckland, and also of the S in Jasmax and a former adjunct Professor of Unitec – and also Friedrich…

  • Video of the Week XXXVII: Christmas time

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    There’s a paucity of architectural Christmas videos on the web – surprise surprise … but here’s a little nostalgia, good-will, and the trauma of reality – yes watch until the very end … Merry Christmas everyone …

  • Architecture of the Basin

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    The Architectural Centre, having just put in a submission on the future of Wellington in the year 2040, where we had the pleasure of looking at the city as a whole, are of the opinion that in 30 years time the city will be very different from what we have now. Traffic needs of the…

  • Grumpy old bloggers

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    If you thought that sometimes the writers at the Architectural Centre get grumpy about Architecture, then its time to show you that we aren’t nearly as harsh as some others around the world. First up there is a site called Bad British Architecture, in which the critic certainly pulls no punches. Sample diatribe: “one of…

  • More roads? Less pollution – I don’t think so.

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    It’s no irony that at the moment when John Key is supposedly at a Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen: City of Cyclists, that the government is poised to increase road building – a 4-lane road from Levin to Wellington – via Transmission Gully or otherwise.  While Key is fluffing around on the other side of…

  • There is no Architecture in New Zealand

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    No, no, don’t get upset with me, apparently it’s true. You see, I’ve got one of those new-fangled iPhone things, and downloaded an application – Architecture – by two Dutch blokes Bas Berck and Vincent Verwell, at a software company called Makayama. Yes, I know, sounds Japanese, even if it is all just double dutch.…

  • Architecture Students: read this

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    Who would want to be an architecture student? For the full article, click here. A grim story, with selected passages taken from The Times, England, October 15, 2009. Better to stay here this summer, than go abroad… “Bad pay, few jobs and an uncertain future? Who’d want to be an architecture student in the current…

  • Heathrow lecture – Julian Watt

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    Lecture on Terminal 2, by Grimshaw architect (and kiwi) Julian Watt

  • Julian Watt – Heathrow

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    Julian Watt, a previous Wellingtonian now residing in London, and working for Grimshaw architects, will be presenting a one-off New Zealand lecture on Tuesday 8 December. “For the past 3 years I’ve been running a project called Terminal 2 Concourse B at Heathrow. It is a new satellite pier at Heathrow designed to eventually house…