Month: March 2009

  • Video of the Week XI: Architecture & energy 1

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    Amid all of the hooha surrounding our Supreme Court – symbols of power, propaganda, and hair loss – we should take time out to step back and really consider the dome issue in a more holistic way. You see, as this remarkable little film sets out, there really are supernatural consequences of building domes, which have no doubt been…

  • Which apocalypse is nigh?

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    I recently came across Gregory Greene’s (dir.) The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream, 2004…

  • Public Lecture @ Massey :: Jane Rendell :: Monday 30th

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    VENUE: Theatrette 10A02: Old Dominion Museum Building, Wellington DATE & TIME: Monday 30th March at 5:30pm Site-Writing: Subjectivity and Positionality in Criticism. A rare opportunity to hear a guest lecture by Professor Jane Rendell (Bartlett, London) She will speak on current research and design work in relation to interdisciplinary meeting points – feminist theory and architectural history,…

  • Keith Ng – Being a dick about Earth Hour

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    This is hilarious – Keith Ng of the Public Address, in simple calculations, takes apart the whole Earth Hour project:    How much can you save during Earth Hour? If you completely stop using electricity in your house, by my rough but generous estimate, you’d saved about 2,800Wh and reduce your greenhouse gas emissions by…

  • Mock Deco

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    Following on from my previous comments on the great work of the Art Deco Trust in Napier, its also worth looking at the efforts, some good, some bad, of architects and others who have tried to replicate the art deco look in that city. There were 3 good heritage buildings knocked down, with two of…

  • Letting Dwell – exhibition by Tim Larkin & Luke Feast

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    Where: The New Dowse, Lower Hutt When: till May 10 Tim Larkin won the 2008 Deane Award for Decorative Arts with a proposal based on the long-redundant, yet highly efficient food safe. Larkin, writer Luke Feast and photographer Pete McColl, have created a body of work that explores the food safe and its unique architectural…

  • One Day Sculpture Symposium : Jane Rendell (keynote)

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    CRITICAL SPATIAL PRACTICE : A KEYNOTE ADDRESS BY JANE RENDELL THURSDAY 26 MARCH 2009, 6PM SOUNDINGS THEATRE, TE PAPA, WELLINGTON Keynote lecture costs $15 waged / $10 unwaged Coordinators of the One Day Sculpture Project, hosted by Massey University as a Litmus Research Initiative, are please to invite the Wellington architectural community to participate in…

  • Video of the Week X: The first World Dynamic Architecture in DuBai project

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    Rubik’s Cube anyone? It is a bit hard to really say much about this, except point out that it is serious – I’ll never scoff at another student project again… The overblown rhetoric implied in the opening musical score ‘borrowed’ from 2001: A Space Odyssey is truly fantastic – like the mysterious black monolith that appears in the film…

  • Rongotai Revived – a fisheyed view…

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    I have come to this a little late, as it has already been the subject of about 30 or so comments over on Eye of the Fish, and I did think that perhaps I wouldn’t bother posting anything on it given the stirling job they usually do over there. Then I read the post. Disappointingly,…

  • Control by Lollipop: Pavlov’s Dogs in Wellington

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    If you’re lucky (or unlucky depending on how you see it) you might be offered a lollipop by a WCC worker for obediently waiting for the lights at the Ghuznee/Cuba St intersection before crossing the road. There’s nothing quite like being greeted by a patronising lollipop and a “Congratulations for crossing the road legally.”

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