Author: AC Admin
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Architects Draw: history
Drawing has been a staple of an architect’s profession for longer than architecture has been a profession …
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Architects Draw: Charity Auction
Architects are historically renowned for drawing,
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Home Sweet Home
Mid September (18-22 September 2014 to be exact) saw four small gabled forms inhabiting the uncompromisingly urban space of Trafalgar Square in London.
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Poor process or RMA problems?
Last Sunday (12th October) John Key announced that the Housing Accords legislation would be incorporated into the Resource Management Act (RMA), and that the Basin Board of Inquiry was evidence of a need to combine sections 6 and 7, and include a reference to “infrastructure” in this new section in an amended RMA.
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Stirling effort
# CommentMoving on – and returning to the eternal debate about: What makes a Good Building? In the UK, every year for the last decade or two they have a prize for the best building completed by a British Architect. It is hosted by the RIBA – and while in the past it has been accompanied…
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Bucharest flyover impacts on town
*Guest Post by Bill Toomath, one of our well-respected architect members of the Architectural Centre To gain a virtually realistic experience of what it would feel like to be alongside and under the proposed NZTA flyover at the Basin Reserve one can easily beam down on Google to a similar project at Bucharest in Romania.…
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Undercroft
# CommentDebates about the Flyover proposed for Wellington still ringing in our ears (the Basin Bridge Board of Enquiry is ongoing as we speak), it seemed like an appropriate time to examine what the underside of a Flyover actually looks like. The answer seems to be: often Not Very Pretty. Keeping in mind that this is…
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The Public Love Tunnels
If there is one thing that the public love, it is being let in to a secret underground space, to go boldly where no one has gone before… And last weekend, Wellington was allowed to venture into the giant slice through the earth that the NZTA call the Memorial Park underpass. At present it is…