Month: June 2010
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Dave Mitchell on Wellington circa 1984
Yes its finally online for all of us to enjoy… ‘on demand’…
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Solar Decathlon launches
# NewsThere is a project going on at Victoria University, that is a pretty exciting development on the New Zealand architectural scene. I know that you might be thinking that the All Whites scoring 1 – 1 against the Italians is good – believe me when I tell you this is even better. Right now I’m…
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On Malls
# CommentThe Dominion Post had an article recently saying how K Mart, the giant US retailing store, wants to establish a branch in central Wellington. Given that K Mart stores are rather large, and Wellington CBD is rather skinny and small. It may be that they are aiming at Kilbirnie / Rongotai instead. But it did…
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NZ Honours
In today’s Queen’s Birthday Honours List, primarily headed up by Knighthoods for people involved with sausages, rugby, and giant wetas, there is just one solitary award for Architecture. Maurice Edward Mahoney, long time work partner of the long-since gonged Miles Warren,
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Children’s changing worlds: Do our cities work for children?
NORDMEYER LECTURE THEATRE Wellington School of Medicine, 23a Mien St, Newtown, Wellington Seminar relating to the release of forthcoming book (of the same name) by Prof. Claire Freeman and AssProf. Paul J. Tranter. Seminar also stars Barbara Lambourn from Unicef, and Dr. Adrian Field from Synergia, a consultancy who “focus on ‘systemic action’ as part…
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Video of the Week XLII – Besti Flokkurinn
OK, so this one is doing the rounds at the moment, so pretty much old news, and it’s not really about architecture and design either – but just so funny, especially given that they are a ‘real’ party, who actually contested the recent Reykjavik City Council elections, and won 6 of the 15 seats.
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Congratulations TVNZ (I think)…
50 years of broadcasting – no mean feat, I guess, but then, let’s take a moment to look at what we have been served up over those 5 decades:
