Day: January 25, 2010

Long Live the Modern Bus Tour2

Jan 25, 2010

# EVENTS OTHER, Heritage Buildings, Site Visit

A bus tour of Modernist buildings in Wellington (Sunday 14 March). On Sunday Architect Bill Toomath will also be aboard, and will speak briefly about his design for the Wellington Teacher’s College in Karori. Julia Gatley is the bus tour guide and also the curator of Long Live the Modern, showing at TheNewDowse from 31…
Long Live the Modern Bus Tour1

Jan 25, 2010

# EVENTS OTHER, Heritage Buildings, Site Visit

A bus tour of Modernist buildings in the Hutt Valley (Saturday 13 March) with Julia Gatley (curator of the Long Live the Modern show at the New Dowse). Visit www.newdowse.org.nz for further details.
Ann McEwan: Social Housing Projects of Toomath’s Wellington

Jan 25, 2010

# EVENTS OTHER, Lecture

Thursday 25 February 2010, 12.30pm Adam Auditorium, City Gallery An illustrated lecture on the WCC social housing blocks in Wellington currently undergoing a major upgrade. These 13 blocks were part of a larger urban renewal project beginning in the 1960s, in which the Architectural Centre and many of Bill Toomath’s contemporaries were significantly involved. Art…
Primo Supremo: architectural justice?

Jan 25, 2010

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Opened this week with princely aplomb, the symbol of New Zealand’s self-sufficient justice system, ironically begins its life with Royal approval.

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