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Month: September 2010

  • chile post-earthquake

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    5:30pm drinks/6pm start, Thursday 30th September LT1, School of Architecture Victoria University, Vivian St Members of the recent, interdisciplinary New Zealand Society of Earthquake Engineers reconnaissance mission to Chile, discuss potential insights for New Zealand. This should be an interesting discussion given the recent earthquake in Christchurch. Peter Smith: structural engineer, Spencer Holmes, Wellington Penny…

  • sexy buildings or vanity fair?

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    Yesterday stuff.co.nz posted an article on the ‘Top 10 Sexiest Buildings’. http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/international/4174312/Top-10-sexiest-buildings A list of anything starting with ‘Top 10’ will always be controversial and provoke debate.  The selection will always be subjective so perhaps it is not the list itself that is important, but the questions that it raises.

  • chile post-earthquake

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    5:30pm drinks/6pm start, Thursday 30th September LT1, School of Architecture Victoria University, Vivian St Members of the recent, interdisciplinary New Zealand Society of Earthquake Engineers reconnaissance mission to Chile, discuss potential insights for New Zealand. This should be a very interesting discussion given the recent earthquake in Christchurch. Peter Smith: structural engineer, Spencer Holmes, Wellington…

  • 20under40 24hr Design Competition 2010 (now 2011)

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  • global urbanism

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    5:30pm drinks/6pm start, Thursday 23rd September LT1, School of Architecture Victoria University, Vivian St Mark Tyrrell: Urbanist, Landscape Architect, Lecturer, University of Sydney, University of NSW, Sydney Dr Regan Potangaroa: Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Unitec, Auckland Mark was a recent winner of Landscape Australia’s ‘Unbuilt’ competition for this work.  Mark Tyrrell, Sydney urbanist and…

  • global urbanism

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    5:30pm drinks/6pm start, Thursday 23rd September LT1, School of Architecture Victoria University, Vivian St Mark Tyrrell: Urbanist, Landscape Architect, Lecturer, University of Sydney, University of NSW, Sydney Dr Regan Potangaroa: Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Unitec, Auckland Mark was a recent winner of Landscape Australia’s ‘Unbuilt’ competition for this work.  Mark Tyrrell, Sydney urbanist and…

  • The Truth about the iPad?

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    The Architectural Centre has always been a forum for discussions about architecture and broader issues of design.

  • Roger Hay

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    Roger Hay, Architect, long time Arch Centre member, recent Fellow of the NZIA, tireless battler for the rights of the disabled and a scourge of incompetent officialdom everywhere, has died aged 76. Roger will be missed by many for his tireless championing of the rights of the disabled and for his work on revising the…

  • ideas for christchurch

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    A week after the earthquake in Canterbury the aftershocks are still continuing but the clean up is underway and demolition has already started with calls for less haste in the wielding of the wrecking ball and now the debate begins on how to rebuild the city.

  • lanes

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    As the streets and traffic lanes are changed to make way for the new bus route along Manners Street, footpaths are blocked, familiar traffic islands have disappeared and pedestrians are forced to reconsider how they navigate the city.