Month: March 2010

  • Wind and Hills: Have Traffic Engineers Noticed?

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    There’s a lot of information on the design of cycle lanes about – basic principles that most roads in Wellington contravine.  Examples include that they should be continuous, 1.5m wide, conspicuous at road crossing and not abandoned when roads get narrow.  I’ve borrowed these words from Cycling England, but other guidelines exist, such as the…

  • For He’s a jolly good Fellow!

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    It’s official our President is a Fellow, and the NZIA have also realised this.  Well done Guy – you are now a recognised part of the NZIA institution.  Our official word (if a word can be official without being sanctioned by the President) is congratulations for having become a Fellow of the NZIA at the…

  • Learning from Earthquakes seminar this Thursday

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  • Another restructure – Should we care?

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    It’s inevitable, given their political nature, that governments (local and central) are subject to “restructuring” more than most institutions. Anyone involved in architecture and urban design in Wellington will have known, for a little while now, that the urban design bits of our city council have been, and are in the middle of, such a…

  • Video of the Week XXXVIII

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    Here’s a beaut music video – thanks to MD for unsubtly reminding of my slackness in the (so-called) video of the week!!  The embed function in You-tube has been disabled so you’ll need to follow the link yourselves … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe6X9fLLp0Y

  • Tsunami Box

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    On Friday 26 March, the Architectural Centre and the Wellington branch of the NZIA is delighted to launch the latest book from Gerald Melling, Tsunami Box. poster Tsunami box tells the story of an architectural journey into the heady tropics of emergency housing in Sri Lanka, following the Asian tsunami of 2004. With tenacious commitment,…

  • Cut and Cover

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    In a surprise move, the possibility of lowering State Highway One past the National War Memorial was announced on the front page of the weekend paper. At the Architectural Centre, we have been advocating this for a number of years now – we hosted a Symposium on the design of the ‘Memorial Park’ in 2007,…

  • Gerald Melling: Book Launch

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    Launch of Gerald Melling’s new book, on the Architecture of Disaster. Personal experiences from the 2006 Aceh tsunami and the attempts to rebuild. 5.30 drinks, 6.00 talk, LT1 School of Architecture

  • a little more flippancy

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    Yes they’ve done it again … The Women’s Weekly have another Word Search with an Architectural Theme. The words to find are: Balcony, Column, Corridor, Cupola, Design, Excavation, Facade, Flooring, Foundations, Fresco, Geodesic dome, Glazed, Mantelpiece, Mezzanine floor, Panel, Partition, Passage, Pillars, Roof, Shutter, Spiral staircase, Stud, Tiles, Transom, Truss, Vestibule.  Bonus points for: Butanol,…

  • Arch Centre AGM

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