Month: August 2009

  • Plant your building

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    There’s an old adage that while Doctors can bury their mistakes, Architects have to live with them. By the same token, the only thing to do with some buildings to disguise their ugliness, is to plant ivy and hope it covers up the hideousness. French architect botanist Patrick Blanc has spent

  • Video of the Week XXVIII: Russian Winter Series III

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    The long awaited Russian Sci-Fi and the really nice “Bullet Factory” (not a sentence I ever thought I’d type – or say!) .. silent to begin with – but will all that intense facial expression who needs sound? Aelita 1920’s Russian Sci-fi film extract

  • Architects get Lippy

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    No – not a new shade of Luscious Pink. We’re talking the RIBA getting rude to the Prince of Wales – and not before time. Reported in NZ as “Architects tell Prince Charles to ‘butt out’ “, the story involves the current RIBA President Sunand Prasad saying publicly: “The intervention in individual projects by somebody…

  • Maggie grows up

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    While some people claim that the Simpsons taught them everything they ever needed to know about anything, and phrases of Bart and Homer have entered happily into the English language (D’Oh!)!, there is one member of that loveably dysfunctional family that has never spoken. Until last week. Maggie, the wide-eyed, dummy-sucking rug-rat that Marge loves…

  • Blue Sky the Outer Tee

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    Competition closes on 24 August. Get your 1 x A3 page down to Wellington Waterfront fast (Shed 6, North Queens Wharf).

  • Marc Treib

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    The Woodland Cemetery and the Narration of Memory. School of Architecture 5.30pm drinks, 6.00pm lecture on September 7th Stemming from a competition in 1915, Skogskyrkogården—usually translated as the Woodland Cemetery—was designed by the architects Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz and completed in 1940. As a suburban landscape on the periphery of Stockholm, the cemetery is…

  • AASA 2009

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    Architectural Conference, AASA 2009, will be held in Wellington on 4th and 5th September. Guest speakers include Xing Ruan, Brenda and Robert Vale, and Studio Pacific. Refer here for further details.

  • Video of the Week XXVII: Russian Winter Series II

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    … and today it’s Rodchenko … … visually stunning – but what else would you expect?

  • Roger Walker

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    As part of Home NZ’s winter series of lectures by NZ architects, the Arch Centre are pleased to be involved in bringing you local architect Roger Walker. At the Cafe L’Affare, 6pm, Thursday 8 October.

  • Sharon Jansen

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    As part of Home NZ’s winter series of lectures by NZ architects, the Arch Centre are pleased to be involved in bringing you local architect Sharon Jansen. At the Cafe L’Affare, 6pm, Thursday 10 September.

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