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Month: May 2009

  • Archi-lego

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    Ah finally its here! The ultimate in no-need-for-your-own-imagination toys for kids (children are so much dumber today)… rather antithetical to the Lego tradition, but then when you can make Hogwarts, not to mention Sponge Bob why not the Guggenheim? Bring on Guggenheim Bilboa! I picked this up from overthenet blog, who are commenting on the…

  • Wistful windy thinking

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    Wet, windy, and wild weather.  Perhaps the only options are indoors, heat and comfort food.  But no  – there’s wacky architecture as well.  Yes we all know about the bizarre things architects do with wind turbines – but if not here’s a few …

  • Heading out east?

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    In conjunction with plans for the indoor sports stadium on Cobham Drive (not that this is mentioned in any of the council documents) Kilbirnie town is to become a bit more of a town.

  • Architecture & Contingency

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    Straw House by Sarah Wigglesworth and Jeremy Till. Jeremy Till claims in his new book that architecture exists in a bubble and ignores the way people really live. Follow the link to listen to a BBC interview where Till discusses with Laurie Taylor how architecture engages – or fails to engage – with the society for which it…

  • Fetish or Fashion: architecture & shoes

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    Urban legend perpetrates the idea of an uncontrollable relationship between women and shoes.

  • Maori Architecture

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    Those of you with sharp eyes, or even sharp ears, will have seen, or heard, of Deidre Brown’s new book Maori Architecture.

  • Video of the Week XV: Arch School

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    If you’re a student, or a graduate, or even an architect, then this video is for you. We’ve spoken before about how the drive towards reality TV has banalised everything on the box, and seems to drive students to take a degree in forensics and crime scene investigating: I’m sure you realise that they’re really…

  • Now that’s deconstructivism…

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    …or has Prince Charles (also, see our other story here), finally developed psychokinetic powers of destruction for contemporary architecture…?   Mwahahaha… Click here for the ‘real’ story…

  • Wood House for Sale

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    We don’t often run ads for houses on the Arch Centre website, but here’s one that you may be interested in. Indeed, you may have even been to a Thanksgiving dinner there once or twice. The architect who designed it, Ted Wood, created a pole house of interesting forms perched up amongst the fantails. The…

  • On Fish, bridges, Boris, Jonathan, and pack-donkeys

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    Maximus may have been all fish-out-of-water proposing an inhabited viaduct over Wellington’s the Basin Reserve over at Eye of the Fish, but it seems that somebody is reading that blog over in our good old Mother Country… Boris Johnson, Lord Mayor of London no less…