After the success of our 2006 Manifesto for Architecture, written to mark our 60th anniversary, we have this year, in the spirit of an election year with a strong focus on housing needs, launched the Architectural Centre’s Manifesto for Housing. Read More
It seems very restrictive to be limited to one favourite modernist building, Read More
Tomorrow night (Monday 6 March) is another public meeting about the fate of the VUW Karori Campus. Read More
In New Zealand, there is a tradition of conserving ‘old’ buildings made of timber and stone. There is also a more recent ‘tradition,’ of owners and their architects who scrub their buildings so white, they look surgically enhanced, erasing all character and grace. Read More
Here’s an index to the various entries of “My favourite modernist building …” and related posts Read More
In February 1996 I arrived in Hamilton to take up a lecturing position at the University of Waikato. At pretty much the same time the Bank of New Zealand (Leigh, de Lisle & Fraser, 1965) in Victoria Street was demolished (1996). Read More
