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  • Pecha Kucha Night

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    A Pecha Kucha Night is happening on 19 April. Doors open at 6.30 for a 7.30 start. Downstage, 12 Cambridge Terrace,  Wellington tickets: $9 // door sales // cash only // come early seats are limited // Starring: Peter Wilson // artistic director // capital e national theatre for children // www.capitale.org Fifi Colston //…

  • Charles Renfro lecture – wednesday 14th april

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      6pm, Wednesday 14 April Adam Auditorium, City Gallery   HOME New Zealand and First Windows & Doors present New York architect Charles Renfro on his first visit to New Zealand. Charles Renfro, of the New York architecture firm Diller, Scofidio + Renfro, is behind some of the world’s most talked-about projects of the moment, including…

  • On “How ‘smart growth’ made NZ section prices and housing unaffordable”

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    It has been a while since property developers and their supporters last came out publicly against contemporary urban planning practices, but yes, it is time to roll your eyes and mutter: “here we go again”. Rodney Dickens, posting on the popular interest.co.nz blog, takes aim at “government-imposed town planning regulations, often dubbed the ‘smart growth’…

  • Arch Centre AGM coming soon

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    Just an advance reminder that the Arch Centre is having its AGM on the 20th April. Starting from 5.30pm with a few drinks and nibbles, at the School of Architecture, we’ll then be going in at 6.00pm to elect a committee for 2010, and executive officers. If you’re a member, and keen to put your…

  • Wind and Hills: Have Traffic Engineers Noticed?

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    There’s a lot of information on the design of cycle lanes about – basic principles that most roads in Wellington contravine.  Examples include that they should be continuous, 1.5m wide, conspicuous at road crossing and not abandoned when roads get narrow.  I’ve borrowed these words from Cycling England, but other guidelines exist, such as the…

  • For He’s a jolly good Fellow!

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    It’s official our President is a Fellow, and the NZIA have also realised this.  Well done Guy – you are now a recognised part of the NZIA institution.  Our official word (if a word can be official without being sanctioned by the President) is congratulations for having become a Fellow of the NZIA at the…

  • Learning from Earthquakes seminar this Thursday

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  • Another restructure – Should we care?

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    It’s inevitable, given their political nature, that governments (local and central) are subject to “restructuring” more than most institutions. Anyone involved in architecture and urban design in Wellington will have known, for a little while now, that the urban design bits of our city council have been, and are in the middle of, such a…

  • Video of the Week XXXVIII

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    Here’s a beaut music video – thanks to MD for unsubtly reminding of my slackness in the (so-called) video of the week!!  The embed function in You-tube has been disabled so you’ll need to follow the link yourselves … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe6X9fLLp0Y

  • Tsunami Box

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    On Friday 26 March, the Architectural Centre and the Wellington branch of the NZIA is delighted to launch the latest book from Gerald Melling, Tsunami Box. poster Tsunami box tells the story of an architectural journey into the heady tropics of emergency housing in Sri Lanka, following the Asian tsunami of 2004. With tenacious commitment,…

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