He might not be well-known, but if he was it would be for the design of the Freyberg Pool (1963). Read the rest of this entry »

There’s something pretty wonderful about St Kevin’s Arcade on K’ Rd in Auckland.  I think the coffee even tastes better because of the intricacy of the architectural space.  Read the rest of this entry »

Just as Manners Street is being ripped up (with the sort of silliness which means that the sunny side of the street will have the smallest width of footpath) it’s perhaps timely to have a think about the role the road has played in Wellington’s history. Read the rest of this entry »

We’ve recently been given a copy of the SuperLink proposal by Transport 2000, which was a well thought-out proposal for Light Rail transport in Wellington. All rights are reserved to the original authors : Daryl Cockburn, Brent Efford, & Kerry Wood for Transport 2000, and the Inter-Professional Group. We are very grateful for the chance to publish this scheme again, and get some more publicity for the Light Rail concept.

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I promised these some time ago, so here they are - a wee photo essay on green building in Boston - back when it was so much easier to be green (so to speak)… Sorry I can’t get my hands on more heritage info (for those that are interested) - it appears that there is so much heritage in Boston that gems such most of these below go completely unrecognised… Read the rest of this entry »

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 January to 4 April 2010.
Visit www.newdowse.org.nz for further details.

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.