Month: March 2011
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20 under 40 results 2011
The 20under40 competition has been completed for another year – and here’s a post to wrap up the results. Every year (or two) we run a competition to see how a collection of brilliant young architectural minds can work, in the challenging atmosphere of a 24 hour design competition. We start at 6pm one night,…
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Zero waste: does fashion eclipse architecture for innovation?
Last Saturday’s “This Way Up” on National Radio profiled the current exhibition at the Dowse. The idea of zero waste in fashion, it appears from the interview, is not just a simple pragmatic one – but has had positive effects for innovatively rethinking fashion more conceptually. The exhibition “Yield: making Fashion without Making Waste” is…
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Futuna keynoter: Richard Leplastrier
For those of you at Futuna last weekend (the 19th-20th March) celebrating the chapels’ 50th birthday you may have missed the Saturday morning interview with Rick Leplastrier.
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Oxymoronic food: when design matters
# CommentThe other day in the lead up to Easter I bought some hot cross buns. At home I discovered they had been chocolatified.
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New Visions needed
Now more than ever is the time to be thinking of fresh ideas. With Christchurch EQ version 1.0 and version 2.0 being totally eclipsed by events in Japan (Tsunami 9.0), it’s clear that some fresh thinking is due in the battle for sustainable buildings. Gerry Brownlee put his best foot forward (or, in his mouth)…
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Site Visit: Indoor Sports Stadium
A rare chance to see the inside of Wellington’s Indoor Sports Stadium, with the architect. Bring your own PPE gear – ie hard hat, steelcapped boots, HiVis jacket. Strictly limited to 40 people – must be current Arch Centre members. Reply to our Email to get your name onto the list.
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The power of paint
As any cyclist is aware, paint on a road can be a life saver, very scarey or simply humorous – as those travelling the shortest cycle lane in Britain would know.
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Let’s go the whole hog with heritage
No, not in any Gerry Brownlee way, but if there’s going to be any strengthening going on why mess with 30%? Why put all that kind of money into strengthening when to strengthen to 100% won’t cost another 70% but much much less?
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Rebuilding Warsaw
# CommentChristchurch is not the first city in the world to be destroyed by an earthquake, and it won’t be the last one either. As far as modern disasters go, it is actually rather restrained, with a remarkably minimal loss of life – we have, currently, 168 dead. In a similar sized quake in Haiti, they…
