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  • Stuart Gardyne, Chris Kelly, Evzen Novak – Featherston

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    Friday 30 July Stuart Gardyne, Chris Kelly, Evzen Novak CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE at Anzac Hall, Featherston At each venue, doors will open at 5.30 for a complimentary glass of wine and nibbles with the talks beginning at 6.15pm. The cost for each talk is $25 per person or $100 for all five events. Tickets from Aratoi…

  • Dean Whiting on Maori Architecture – Carterton

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    Friday 16 July Dean Whiting MAORI ARCHITCTURE, ART & HERITAGE at Wai Art Centre, Holloway Street, Carterton At each venue, doors will open at 5.30 for a complimentary glass of wine and nibbles with the talks beginning at 6.15pm. The cost for each talk is $25 per person or $100 for all five events. Tickets…

  • Performance Architecture – design or default?

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    Downstage in association with Toi Whakaraari Invite you  to a special event: Performance Architecture – design or default? Jean–Guy LeCat is a world authority on theatre design and performance architecture having made his name creating spaces for Peter Brook for over 30 years. He is here in Wellington and will be giving a lecture at…

  • Shape-shifting interior

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    Looking to maximize space in your apartment? If so, then the following apartment in Hong Kong may be for you… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg9qnWg9kak

  • Basin Reserve Solution

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    At last – Basin Reserve, the Movie: You can play this here on YouTube: It has taken us a while, and we still haven’t got a sound track, but at long last we have uploaded our movie on a possible solution to the impasse on the Basin Reserve. Please feel free to forward this link…

  • Public Talk – Solar Decathlon – School of Architecture LT1

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    Four graduate architecture students from Victoria University have undertaken the biggest challenge of their careers, and present the starting phases to the public and the profession. The Firstlight House is a solar powered house that will be built in NZ and exported in pieces to the USA to compete in an international competition in 2011.…

  • Good Manners – Just mind your step….

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    Following the councils decision to ignore everyones advice except from those that agreed with them they have lost no time in commencing the change process in Manners Mall. New pedestrian calming measures have been introduced into the centre of the mall which also perform more than adequately as holding pens for paving contractors looking to…

  • Dave Mitchell on Wellington circa 1984

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    Yes its finally online for all of us to enjoy… ‘on demand’…

  • Solar Decathlon launches

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    There is a project going on at Victoria University, that is a pretty exciting development on the New Zealand architectural scene. I know that you might be thinking that the All Whites scoring 1 – 1 against the Italians is good – believe me when I tell you this is even better. Right now I’m…

  • On Malls

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    The Dominion Post had an article recently saying how K Mart, the giant US retailing store, wants to establish a branch in central Wellington. Given that K Mart stores are rather large, and Wellington CBD is rather skinny and small. It may be that they are aiming at Kilbirnie / Rongotai instead. But it did…

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