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NZ On Screen

There is a project going on at Victoria University, that is a pretty exciting development on the New Zealand architectural scene. I know that you might be thinking that the All Whites scoring 1 – 1 against the Italians is good – believe me when I tell you this is even better.

Right now I’m going to Read the rest of this entry »

The Dominion Post had an article recently saying how K Mart, the giant US retailing store, wants to establish a branch in central Wellington. Given that K Mart stores are rather large, and Wellington CBD is rather skinny and small. It may be that they are aiming at Kilbirnie / Rongotai instead.

But it did remind me of an article by Elizabeth Farrelly, a former Kiwi now in position of architectural press power in Australia, with an Ode to the (not) pleasures of the Mall, from her recent book Blubberland – the Dangers of Happiness (MIT Press, 2008):

“The contemporary shopping mall is a classic instance, striving to ape the complexity and interest of a traditional market, but with one, overarching difference; Read the rest of this entry »

In today’s Queen’s Birthday Honours List, primarily headed up by Knighthoods for people involved with sausages, rugby, and giant wetas, there is just one solitary award for Architecture.

Maurice Edward Mahoney, long time work partner of the long-since gonged Miles Warren, Read the rest of this entry »

NORDMEYER LECTURE THEATRE
Wellington School of Medicine,
23a Mien St, Newtown, Wellington

Seminar relating to the release of forthcoming book (of the same name) by Prof. Claire Freeman and AssProf. Paul J. Tranter. Seminar also stars Barbara Lambourn from Unicef, and Dr. Adrian Field from Synergia, a consultancy who “focus on ‘systemic action’ as part of an emerging stream of concepts and methods that collectively represents a step change in capability.”

OK, so this one is doing the rounds at the moment, so pretty much old news, and it’s not really about architecture and design either – but just so funny, especially given that they are a ‘real’ party, who actually contested the recent Reykjavik City Council elections, and won 6 of the 15 seats. Read the rest of this entry »

50 years of broadcasting – no mean feat, I guess, but then, let’s take a moment to look at what we have been served up over those 5 decades: Read the rest of this entry »