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  • NZ Honours

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    In today’s Queen’s Birthday Honours List, primarily headed up by Knighthoods for people involved with sausages, rugby, and giant wetas, there is just one solitary award for Architecture. Maurice Edward Mahoney, long time work partner of the long-since gonged Miles Warren,

  • Children’s changing worlds: Do our cities work for children?

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    NORDMEYER LECTURE THEATRE Wellington School of Medicine, 23a Mien St, Newtown, Wellington Seminar relating to the release of forthcoming book (of the same name) by Prof. Claire Freeman and AssProf. Paul J. Tranter. Seminar also stars Barbara Lambourn from Unicef, and Dr. Adrian Field from Synergia, a consultancy who “focus on ‘systemic action’ as part…

  • Video of the Week XLII – Besti Flokkurinn

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    OK, so this one is doing the rounds at the moment, so pretty much old news, and it’s not really about architecture and design either – but just so funny, especially given that they are a ‘real’ party, who actually contested the recent Reykjavik City Council elections, and won 6 of the 15 seats.

  • Congratulations TVNZ (I think)…

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    50 years of broadcasting – no mean feat, I guess, but then, let’s take a moment to look at what we have been served up over those 5 decades:

  • Postcard from New York

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    Tonight, coming at you Live and Direct from New York City, the greatest city in the World…  Yes, there are other great cities apart from Wellington, and it’s interesting to compare how the original Gotham city stacks up to our own mini-Manhatten.

  • Looking out for us … all

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    Sitting in Mojo’s in Dunedin last weekend, sheltering from wind and rain, a chance glance at the ceiling revealed the ominous black perspex globe hiding a security camera.

  • Edible Architecture

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    While Laugier’s Primitive Hut is frequently looked at as the dominant myth of architect’s beginnings, millions of children around the world are told of more appealing origins for building.

  • Manners Mall submission

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    The Architectural Centre has made the following submission : Manners Mall Carpark on the WCC’s proposal’s for the redevelopment of Manner’s Mall. As you may note from the written and drawn information, we were very much less than impressed. We are calling for the WCC to scrap the current scheme owing to its predominate use…

  • For Sale by tender: CLASSIC MEDITERRANEAN HILLSIDE HOME

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    Actually, neither a classic, nor Mediterranean, but I guess Real Estate Agents run out of descriptors fairly quickly when a house doesn’t have conventional character appeal, nor potential to stamp your own personality on it (via the insatiable kiwi attitude for DIY of course). “Outstanding views” (back across the harbour to Wellington City) are of course the opening…

  • NZ Government architects under fire (again)…

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    OK, Warren and Mahoney were only one of a number of practices from different disciplines involved in the New Zealand Shanghai Expo 2010 pavilion, and the rather blistering attack is not aimed at NZgovt’s favourite architectural practice alone, but there is certainly little holding-back in Byron’s critique over at the Productspec website).

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