Month: April 2011
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FirstLight House flying up on Frank Kitts Park
For those of you who have been asleep under a rock for a while, you may not have heard about the Meridian Firstlight House that is being assembled on Frank Kitts Park this week. If you’ve managed to escape the
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AGM – with Peter Beaven
This year our Arch Centre AGM will have as a special guest speaker the well-known and highly respected Christchurch architect Peter Beaven. Following the destruction of much of Christchurch’s heritage architecture, both ancient and modern, we thought that an informed voice from the south would be a welcome change from all the bluster of politicians…
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Arch Centre AGM 2011
School of Architecture, 5.30 drinks and nibbles, 6.00pm AGM with special guest speaker – Christchurch architect Peter Beavan
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Ba bam booo!
I guess the first thing I should say is that – I know very little about cars.
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Designing New Zealand
National Radio is running their design competition for Kiwi radios again – this time with the added pressure of 2011 being the 100 year anniversary of New Zealand first emitting radio waves across the nation. Details are at: http://www.soundslikeus.co.nz/home. Entries are due in a month on Sat 14th May.
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Are the days of the hung door numbered?
# CommentThe post about cycling road marks got me thinking – especially the dooring-prevention margin of one of the cycle lanes.
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Human Casualties in Earthquakes: Modelling and Mitigation
Professor Robin Spence, Emeritus Professor of Architectural Engineering at Cambridge, will be presenting a talk on Disaster risk assessment – at the School of Architecture, 6.00pm on Tuesday 19th April 2011. (pre-talk drinks at 5.30). This is an IPENZ Wellington event – so expect lots of Engineers – but architects and students welcome too.
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Empire’s Last Style
# LectureOn the 8th of April, ie this Friday, Vladimir Belogolovsky will be talking on the architecture of the Soviet Union. A must see for all! Starts 6.00pm LT1, School of Architecture / NZIA event.
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What are they thinking?
# CommentThe news that the National Party are putting their hopes in fossil fuels (oil, gas and coal) as NZ’s export future seems daft.