Author: AC Admin
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Video of the Week XLI – Frank Gehry, you’re a genius!
We’ve probably all seen this by now, but if you haven’t, it is that classic Simpson’s episode… I can’t find a better online version, but here you go anyway (click on the image below to get to the video page…)
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Dystopia arrives, finally…
Who needs futurists these days, when we can get our fix of sci-fi dystopian future apocalypse right now in the present… (click on the image for it all big and beautiful).
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Sex & architecture
# CommentJust hitting the book shelves this week is a new strategy for saving England’s historic houses, which is almost literally exploiting the sentiment that “sex sells!”
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That other New Zealand city of some little significance…
Just to show that we are not completely parochial here at the Arch Centre, from time to time it is necessary to cast our eyes south of the Strait and north of the Tararua Ranges and acknolwedge that building activity does take place in various regional centres… such as, say, Auckland – the City of…
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Video of the Week XL: Top 10 things you’ll never hear an architect say
From the “How to architect” series. The guy seems a little weird (well, quite a lot actually), but I thought this might be a nice bit of Friday afternoon edification… …not to be taken too seriously of course…
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AGM tonight !
# AGMArch Centre AGM is tonight – Tuesday 20 April 2010. To be held at the School of Architecture, 5.30 food and drink, for 6.00 meeting To be discussed: Manners Mall, and the Basin Reserve. See you there! Also added: new poll – under “Your Opinion” below right. The Sept 11 discussion, it seems, goes on…
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Pecha Kucha rocks
# LectureLast night’s Pecha Kucha was just as much fun as the last one – maybe even more so. The line up I have is as per the following, but I think there is one more person missing. Which is a pity, because he was arguably the best…
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Is housing really an issue for architects?
# RANTINGLife in the outer suburbs has never been so tight.
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Video of the Week XXXIX: LIGHT*HOUSE
3XN, UN Studio and Jan Gehl (advisors) waterfront development – “a new urban quarter” – no, not here in Wellington, unfortunately(?), but in Aarhus, Denmark… . . What do you think…?
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Green Building – boston styles
I promised these some time ago, so here they are – a wee photo essay on green building in Boston – back when it was so much easier to be green (so to speak)… Sorry I can’t get my hands on more heritage info (for those that are interested) – it appears that there is…
