Month: August 2010

  • The City and the City

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    So, I’ve just finished reading China Miéville’s novel The city and the city – the first novel I’ve actually made it through in quite some time. Courtesy of Wikipedia, here is the low-down on the dual cities that are the main character/s of the book: The City & The City takes place in the cities of Besźel and…

  • The Mystery of UpCycling Architecture

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    While up-cycling is the fad amongst crafty (industrial) designers, I have been wondering what up-cycling for architecture might be. Sure we have had adaptive reuse, from Scarpa’s Castelvecchio to Herzog & de Meuron’s Tate Modern, but you know, they just not as ‘sustainable’ sounding as ‘up-cycling’. Really adaptive reuse is just a bit too much…

  • Stirling efforts

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    Architectural prizes: love them or hate them? In New Zealand, we seem to have a growing number – of course, the more you have, the lesser the value to those that get selected. We have, of course, the NZIA, and their award giving scheme. At one stage, many years ago, only one prize was given…

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