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  • The Awkward Debates

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    The Awkward Debates – June series of public debates about Architectural issues. 13th June : New Zealand Prisons – Is the bar too low ?

  • AGM 26 April 2012

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    Just a reminder – the Arch Centre AGM is on, Thursday 26 April 2012, at 6pm Held at: School of Architecture, Wellington, room 204. Special attraction : Pub Quiz ! We’ll keep you on your toes….

  • Begone ye Spammers

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    Just a quick note to say that our website has been updated, and (we hope) the spammers expunged for good. You’re free to wander around the site and feel free to comment on our blog. More commentary, at a slightly more erudite level, coming your way soon.

  • Light Rail could be Cheap as Chips!

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    Following stunning news today from the GWRC study into the cost of a possible Light Rail system in Wellington – results have come back that the cost COULD be as LOW as $14m per km. By anybody’s books, that is fantastic news – and means that costs are indeed well within reach of a Council…

  • Christchurch Cathedral to be demolished?!

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    Breaking news – and something that I can’t quite believe they would do, but the Bishop of Christchurch has announced today that the Anglican Church plans to completely demolish the Cathedral in Christchurch. Cantabrians, and no doubt others, are in total shock. There is, as yet, no confirmation as to whether it will ever be…

  • Drinking tea wins Pritzker Prize

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    The plan for the Ningbo Historic Museum, for example, came to him one night when he could not sleep, he said. He got out of bed and started drawing in pencil: the structure, space sizes, entrance locations and other aspects. “Then,” he said, “I drank tea.”

  • Dear Architects, I am sick of your sh1t

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    This may have done the rounds already, having originally been published in 2006, but here it is again for those of you who, like me, may have missed it:

  • Knox Church

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    There is going to be a long period of rebuilding in Christchurch – we all know that. Which is why that the importance of getting the first buildings rebuilt right is vitally important. One of the first proposed rebuilds out of the starting blocks is the Presbyterian Knox Church, which really had the stuffing kicked…

  • Developer: it starts with ‘D,’ like ‘devil’ and ‘demon

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    That’s a quote from retiring president of the Cosanti Foundation, one Mr Paolo Soleri. Cosanti Foundation is, of course, the organisation responsible for Arcosanti:

  • Christchurch On Screen

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    With impeccable timing, NZ On Screen have just published the Christchurch episode of The Elegant Shed – to go with the Wellington episode already onsite. “In this episode of the influential NZ architecture series, dapper tour guide David Mitchell looks at the ‘Christchurch Style’. He begins with the humble baches on Taylor’s Mistake’s cliffs, before…