The Architectural Centre has always been a forum for discussions about architecture and broader issues of design. So it seems only right given the dominance of the iPad in current conversations about design that we should add our two cents worth too …

No – it’s not that cheap architectural jokes (such as the Dubai “PAD” being heralded as the first cybertecture apartment tower) are envitable.  The answer lies much closer to home … the image of the class room Steve Jobs so desires to be an international phemonenon …

… has already happened.  Welcome to New Zealand satire one hundred years ago …

Brought to you c/- the National Library’s Papers Past’s and the New Zealand Free Lance 27th March 1909 ….