Author: AC Admin
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Colchester’s firstsite
# CommentThe opening of a gallery is an exciting day for any contemporary art organization. Firstsite in Colchester, the site of Britain’s first Roman city, are no doubt to be congratulated on achieving such a large new space, designed by Rafael Vinoly, to support their exhibition programme.
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Postcard from Washington DC
# CommentI’m here in Washington DC, with the Victoria University team for the Solar Decathlon 2011 competition – building and running the First Light House. The month started off with the pre-assembly from containers of our modular house, and the competition proper started last night. Wish us luck! We have spent the last few weeks
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Are Auckland Learning From Us?
With the launch of the Centre City Plan discussion document, has Auckland shown that it is more prepared than Wellington to put in place some realistic 21st Century, urban design thinking?
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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.…
