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  • Pencarrow – to the Lighthouse

    Coach Trip to Pencarrow Lighthouse – New Zealand Historic Places Trust When: Saturday 26 Feb (postponement day for wet weather, 27 Jan)

  • Futuna – to the Future

    Friends of Futuna Chapel Charitable Trust 50th Anniversary celebrations 18, 19 and 20 March 2011 Designed by architect John Scott for the Society of Mary in 1959,

  • Plishke

    //Adam Art Gallery and the School of Architecture at Victoria University of Wellington presents The Problem of Plischke Symposium Saturday 19 February 2011 11am – 5pm Alan MacDiarmid Building, Rooms 102 + 104 Kelburn Campus, Victoria University of Wellington Thank you for your registration to this free event. Please find attached the programme outline for…

  • The Problem with Plishke

    Adam Art Gallery and the School of Architecture at Victoria University of Wellington presents The Problem of Plischke Symposium – Saturday 19 February 2011 – 11am – 5pm Alan MacDiarmid Building, Rooms 102 + 104, Kelburn Campus,

  • Motor City

    I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on…

  • Here it comes!

    We are finally having a 20 under 40 competition! Registration and briefing will occur at 6pm Friday March 4th, at the School of Architecture and Design, VUW – Vivien Street. Submission is the same time and place the following evening, with a party to follow (venue ProductSpec, Holland Street). Judging will be announced Sunday at…

  • 20 under 40 2011

    ALL REGISTRATION FEES WILL BE DONATED TO THE RED CROSS EARTHQUAKE APPEAL Registration and briefing will occur at 6pm Friday March 4th, at the School of Architecture and Design, VUW – Vivien Street. Submission is the same time and place the following evening, with a party to follow (venue ProductSpec, Holland Street). Judging will be…

  • Wellington Whare Waka

    A new building awaits us on Wellington waterfront. Opening early on Waitangi Day this coming weekend, the new Whare Waka is being officially named and declared open. We’re going to devote some room to an an-depth discussion of the building in our next Arch Centre newsletter, due out soon, where we will have a full…

  • On your books

    Welcome back to work. We know that the construction industry winds down and goes to sleep for a while over the holidays, and so does the architectural world – but everyone seems to be back at work now and ready to go, praying for a better year than 2010. So: what is on your books…

  • The architecture of tragedy: commemorating Pike River?

    The Pike River Mining disaster has been cited as the worst mining disaster in New Zealand history.

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