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 »

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 »

It’s a bit of an old chesnut but here we go again - lock ‘em up and throw away the keys.  This week it seems that Act and National are convinced that humanity can’t do what architecture is so good at - incarceration.  Their addition to the Sentencing and Parole Reform Bill, if enacted, will mean “no prospect of ever being freed for those convicted of murder or manslaughter.” Such thinking makes architecture the ultimate punishment. Read the rest of this entry »