Month: May 2010

  • Postcard from New York

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    Tonight, coming at you Live and Direct from New York City, the greatest city in the World…  Yes, there are other great cities apart from Wellington, and it’s interesting to compare how the original Gotham city stacks up to our own mini-Manhatten.

  • Looking out for us … all

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    Sitting in Mojo’s in Dunedin last weekend, sheltering from wind and rain, a chance glance at the ceiling revealed the ominous black perspex globe hiding a security camera.

  • Edible Architecture

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    While Laugier’s Primitive Hut is frequently looked at as the dominant myth of architect’s beginnings, millions of children around the world are told of more appealing origins for building.

  • Manners Mall submission

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    The Architectural Centre has made the following submission : Manners Mall Carpark on the WCC’s proposal’s for the redevelopment of Manner’s Mall. As you may note from the written and drawn information, we were very much less than impressed. We are calling for the WCC to scrap the current scheme owing to its predominate use…

  • For Sale by tender: CLASSIC MEDITERRANEAN HILLSIDE HOME

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    Actually, neither a classic, nor Mediterranean, but I guess Real Estate Agents run out of descriptors fairly quickly when a house doesn’t have conventional character appeal, nor potential to stamp your own personality on it (via the insatiable kiwi attitude for DIY of course). “Outstanding views” (back across the harbour to Wellington City) are of course the opening…

  • NZ Government architects under fire (again)…

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    OK, Warren and Mahoney were only one of a number of practices from different disciplines involved in the New Zealand Shanghai Expo 2010 pavilion, and the rather blistering attack is not aimed at NZgovt’s favourite architectural practice alone, but there is certainly little holding-back in Byron’s critique over at the Productspec website).

  • Video of the Week XLI – Frank Gehry, you’re a genius!

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    We’ve probably all seen this by now, but if you haven’t, it is that classic Simpson’s episode… I can’t find a better online version, but here you go anyway (click on the image below to get to the video page…)

  • Dystopia arrives, finally…

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    Who needs futurists these days, when we can get our fix of sci-fi dystopian future apocalypse right now in the present… (click on the image for it all big and beautiful).

  • Sex & architecture

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    Just hitting the book shelves this week is a new strategy for saving England’s historic houses, which is almost literally exploiting the sentiment that “sex sells!”

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