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  • Mark Burry on Sagrada Familia and more

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    International cutting edge, dual hemisphere architects don’t come any more clever and hard working than Professor Mark Burry. Head of SIAL, the spatial architecture wing of the School of Architecture at RMIT (Melbourne), Prof Burry is also one of the architects working on the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. He works in Melborne, the other architect…

  • … quiet Modernism

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    He might not be well-known, but if he was it would be for the design of the Freyberg Pool (1963).

  • Wild Weather

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    A mid-1960s Archigram film announced: “When it’s raining in Oxford Street the architecture is no more important that the rain.”

  • … the beauty of arcades …

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    There’s something pretty wonderful about St Kevin’s Arcade on K’ Rd in Auckland.  I think the coffee even tastes better because of the intricacy of the architectural space. 

  • Stop …

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    Almost every time I catch a bus the thing that strikes me (other than the almost always lateness of Wellington buses), is how inadequate bus stops are  in their design for shelter.  It seems that I’m not the only one thinking this way ….

  • Wine and Architecture

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    These are more closely related than you might think. Come along to the School of Architecture in Vivian St, and experience both the wine of Spain and the architecture. 5.30 drinks (hopefully better than our usual), 6.15 lecture

  • Arquitectura Sin Papel

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    Architecture without Paper – an exhibition from 15 young Spanish architects, previously exhibited at the Venice Bienalle – available for viewing every day during working hours at the School of Architecture, Vivian St, Wellington

  • Just Manners …

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    Just as Manners Street is being ripped up (with the sort of silliness which means that the sunny side of the street will have the smallest width of footpath) it’s perhaps timely to have a think about the role the road has played in Wellington’s history.

  • Re:Housing Practice

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    Three Wellington based NZIA practices talk about their work from the 2009 NZIA Awards. Jasmax, Novac & Middleton, Athfield Architects. 5.30 Drinks, 6.15 Talk, School of Architecture, Victoria Uni

  • The City and the City

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    So, I’ve just finished reading China Miéville’s novel The city and the city – the first novel I’ve actually made it through in quite some time. Courtesy of Wikipedia, here is the low-down on the dual cities that are the main character/s of the book: The City & The City takes place in the cities of Besźel and…

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