Month: August 2011
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Local insight toward a refined proposal
So says Rod James, of the 1900 or so submissions received by NZTA on their recently closed public consultation on the preferred options for roading improvements near the Basin Reserve
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It actually could be worse
I just discovered this, and thought I’d share it with you all, as it is a topical image for today – the last day of submissions on NZTA’s proposals for transport improvements near the basin Reserve.
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Vote X
The Friday 26 August deadline for submissions to NZTA regarding the Wellington inner-city transport projects is getting closer.
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Polls apart – the verdict on Option X is all good
According to Warren Buffet, a public opinion poll is no substitute for thought. Therefore, I think that the results of the Capital Times Reader’s Poll are pretty encouraging for the Architectural Centre’s Option X scheme for the Basin Reserve
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Directing traffic from the past…
It wasn’t so long ago, really, when the woes of Wellignton’s traffic congestion could be sorted out by one man with white gloves and thick black eyebrows… No flyovers here, just good old 8mm retro goodness of traffic congestion ala Wellington 1963 (before traffic lights came to town…)
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The Art of the Contemporary House
On Thursday 18 August, the Architecture Centre would like to welcome you along to the School of Architecture for an evening’s presentation on: The Art of the Contemporary House, featuring 3 works of architecture by acclaimed local architect members of the Architectural Centre. It promises to be an evening of education, erudition and entertainment. Please…
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The Art of the Contemporary House (De Jersey Clere, Concrete, and Humbug)
The Architectural Centre is proud to present a triple-bill lecture, featuring three respected local architects, Sam Kebbell, Judi Keith-Brown, and Simon Twose, reflecting on their recent domestic projects. Conceptual and literal landscapes, the relationship between art and architecture, and contemporary interventions to heritage buildings are just some of the topics that might be evoked during the discussion.…
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How much does your building weigh…?
# FilmThere is a film on tonight at the Paramount, and repeated on Saturday morning, called: How much does your building weigh, Mr Foster. We haven’t seen it yet as it is part of the International Film Festival on at present in the
