Month: February 2009

  • Defining who we are, and what we do…

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    The Urban Dictionary seems to be the only way to keep up with the rapidly evolving vernacularisms of our urban teen culture – so, just how do today’s yoofs see the practice of architecture: Architect: An overworked and underpaid employee – of a pretentious registered practitioner of the arts (a prat). Many years in tertiary education have left the ‘architect’…

  • Redesign L.A. – or it’s transport

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    Feeling a little short of work at the moment? Like to have a try at solving the transport woes of one of the world’s most snarled up, congested cities? Hear those voices calling you from on high? No, its not Christmas carols coming super early for ’09: The City of the Angels is calling for…

  • Council website

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    There’s a curious new website that the WCC appear to have launched, which it appears not many people are visiting. Click here and lodge your vote on what the Council should be spending your money on in the long term community plan.

  • Video of the Week IV: Studio Slasher – Death by Architecture

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    More student studio madness – this time created by  5th year honours students in Architecture (WITS University) as a response to last week’s video… I hope this doesn’t bring back too many memories… m-d

  • Dancing With Architecture

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    For those stumbling over how to promote that new iconic design maybe these links will provide some inspiration…    Battersea Power Station Empire State Building Petronas Towers   I’m sure that they are on to something…enjoy

  • Electric Cars – are they better than Petrol?

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    The car has arguably been both the best and the worst invention of the last 100 or so years. While it has allowed our cities to expand, our countries to patrol far off frontiers, and granting untold personal freedom to people around the world, it has also mostly ruined all those said cities with traffic…

  • Riding on Air

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    I’ve never understood why so many buses are air-conditioned, especially in this rather temperate country of ours. The commuter buses it seems a no brainer – openable windows and customers dressed for outside conditions must be a winning formula. On long trips – there’s nothing quite as pleasant as sitting next to an open window…

  • 2009 Open Architecture Challenge: Classroom

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    This looks rather cool – it’s an open design competition (you don’t even need to be a registered architect), run by Architecture for Humanity, in which you work as a partnership with a local school to develop a classroom design ‘for the future’. Architecture for Humanity is a “A volunteer non-profit organization set up to…

  • Lara Almarcegui Relocated Houses, Brittons Yard, 2009

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    Location : Brittons Yard, Haywards Hill Road, Wellington and insert in Friday’s Dominion Post newspaper, Wellington Friday 13 February 2009, 6.30-8.30pm As part of the One Day Sculpture programme Lara Almarcegui critiques the practice of house moving from the perspective of sculpture, inviting questions on how the built environment is valued and manipulated.

  • Bedwyr Williams Le ‘Welsh’ Man’s 24hour

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    Location : Around Wellington, beginning and ending at the carpark next to Enjoy, Swan Lane, off Cuba St Thursday 12 February 2009, 00.00-24.00 As part of the One Day Sculpture Project Bedwyr Williams will be painting Wellington.

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