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  • Ba bam booo!

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    I guess the first thing I should say is that – I know very little about cars.

  • Designing New Zealand

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    National Radio is running their design competition for Kiwi radios again – this time with the added pressure of 2011 being the 100 year anniversary of New Zealand first emitting radio waves across the nation.  Details are at: http://www.soundslikeus.co.nz/home.  Entries are due in a month on Sat 14th May.

  • Are the days of the hung door numbered?

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    The post about cycling road marks got me thinking – especially the dooring-prevention margin of one of the cycle lanes.

  • Human Casualties in Earthquakes: Modelling and Mitigation

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    Professor Robin Spence, Emeritus Professor of Architectural Engineering at Cambridge, will be presenting a talk on Disaster risk assessment – at the School of Architecture, 6.00pm on Tuesday 19th April 2011. (pre-talk drinks at 5.30). This is an IPENZ Wellington event – so expect lots of Engineers – but architects and students welcome too.

  • Empire’s Last Style

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    On the 8th of April, ie this Friday, Vladimir Belogolovsky will be talking on the architecture of the Soviet Union. A must see for all! Starts 6.00pm LT1, School of Architecture / NZIA event.

  • What are they thinking?

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    The news that the National Party are putting their hopes in fossil fuels (oil, gas and coal) as NZ’s export future seems daft.

  • Sad day for Avalon

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    Sad news today as it is announced that TVNZ is to sell Avalon studios.

  • 20 under 40 results 2011

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    The 20under40 competition has been completed for another year – and here’s a post to wrap up the results. Every year (or two) we run a competition to see how a collection of brilliant young architectural minds can work, in the challenging atmosphere of a 24 hour design competition. We start at 6pm one night,…

  • Zero waste: does fashion eclipse architecture for innovation?

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    Last Saturday’s “This Way Up” on National Radio profiled the current exhibition at the Dowse.  The idea of zero waste in fashion, it appears from the interview, is not just a simple pragmatic one – but has had positive effects for innovatively rethinking fashion more conceptually.  The exhibition “Yield: making Fashion without Making Waste” is…

  • Futuna keynoter: Richard Leplastrier

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    For those of you at Futuna last weekend (the 19th-20th March) celebrating the chapels’ 50th birthday you may have missed the Saturday morning interview with Rick Leplastrier.

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