Author: AC Admin

  • Goodbye civilization?

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    Perhaps the most phenomenal thing about James Hansen’s talk on Monday night was the crowds

  • Christchurch moves on

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    There is significantly good news coming out of Christchurch from this week just passed, for which we can all be grateful for. After several long months of continuing shakes, the announcement of Roger Sutton as the new head of the CERA is a waft of fresh air that even the government ministers must have been…

  • NZIA – Adaption and Regeneration

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    This week, NZIA has its CPD mini-conference in Auckland, and announces / awards New Zealand architecture awards. The theme for the 2011 CPD Days is ADAPTATION AND REGENERATION Architects aspire not just to design buildings, but to influence the design of the urban environment. Cities are increasingly complex and city-making is increasingly sophisticated. How should…

  • Defensive architecture: post-insurance building

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    Conventionally defensive architecture might conjure images of castles, trench warfare and maybe even prisons.  I’m interested in a more futuristic viewpoint.

  • Site Visit: Willis Central

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    a chance to see behind the new facade on willis street, with architecture+.  bring your own safety gear (hard shoes, hard hat & high visibility vest) & meet at the boulcott street entrance, 4pm thursday 12th may. limited to 20 people so be in quick to get your name on the list, rsvp to arch@architecture.org.nz

  • Site Visit: Willis Central

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    a chance to see behind the new facade on willis street, with architecture+.  bring your own safety gear – hard shoes, hard hat & high visibility vest.  note: anyone without safety gear will not be permitted on site.  meet at the boulcott street entrance. limited to 20 people (must be current Arch Centre members). reply…

  • Timberlake

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    James Timberlake is a principal of the Philadelphia-based architecture firm Kieran Timberlake, winners of the 2010 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award and the American Institute of Architects’ National Firm Award in 2008. The firm recently won the competition to design the new Embassy of the United States in London. In 2008, they designed a prefabricated house…

  • FirstLight House flying up on Frank Kitts Park

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    For those of you who have been asleep under a rock for a while, you may not have heard about the Meridian Firstlight House that is being assembled on Frank Kitts Park this week. If you’ve managed to escape the

  • AGM – with Peter Beaven

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    This year our Arch Centre AGM will have as a special guest speaker the well-known and highly respected Christchurch architect Peter Beaven. Following the destruction of much of Christchurch’s heritage architecture, both ancient and modern, we thought that an informed voice from the south would be a welcome change from all the bluster of politicians…

  • Arch Centre AGM 2011

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    School of Architecture, 5.30 drinks and nibbles, 6.00pm AGM with special guest speaker – Christchurch architect Peter Beavan

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