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  • Wellington 2040 – our vision

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    If you’ve come here today from reading the Capital Times – then welcome! We’ve been around since 1946, and provide a voice on architecture, design, and urban issues in Wellington. The current issue of the Capital Times has picked up on our submission for Wellington 2040 – a Council run call for submissions on what…

  • Wahi Tapu

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    I remember many years ago there was a death in Cable Bay in Northland.  The area was deemed a wahi tapu.  There was to be no access to the restricted area, and the death was communally acknowledged through this marking of space.  I think this was the first time I had heard of this practice…

  • Best of the Decade – You choose!

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    It’s the start of a new decade (well, a month in already) and I got to thinking – what are the architectural achievements we’ve seen over the last ten years? Were they good for you? Or did they pass by in a miasma of non-events? Te Papa – always a contentious subject – is outside…

  • Long Live the Modern Bus Tour2

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    A bus tour of Modernist buildings in Wellington (Sunday 14 March). On Sunday Architect Bill Toomath will also be aboard, and will speak briefly about his design for the Wellington Teacher’s College in Karori. Julia Gatley is the bus tour guide and also the curator of Long Live the Modern, showing at TheNewDowse from 31…

  • Long Live the Modern Bus Tour1

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    A bus tour of Modernist buildings in the Hutt Valley (Saturday 13 March) with Julia Gatley (curator of the Long Live the Modern show at the New Dowse). Visit www.newdowse.org.nz for further details.

  • Ann McEwan: Social Housing Projects of Toomath’s Wellington

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    Thursday 25 February 2010, 12.30pm Adam Auditorium, City Gallery An illustrated lecture on the WCC social housing blocks in Wellington currently undergoing a major upgrade. These 13 blocks were part of a larger urban renewal project beginning in the 1960s, in which the Architectural Centre and many of Bill Toomath’s contemporaries were significantly involved. Art…

  • Primo Supremo: architectural justice?

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    Opened this week with princely aplomb, the symbol of New Zealand’s self-sufficient justice system, ironically begins its life with Royal approval.

  • Long Live More of the Modern

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    You may recall (you should!) the launch of the Long Live the Modern book held by Arch Centre last year. At long last, after Auckland, Napier, and Christchurch, Wellington (well, Lower Hutt actually) gets to host the touring exhibition. Its at the new Dowse in the Hutt, from 30 January

  • S William Toomath

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    Opening 28 January at the City Gallery will be an exhibition on the long and distinguished career of Wellington architect S William Toomath. The exhibition, Liberating Everyday Life, will provide an overview of Bill Toomath’s work over the many years he has been around. An early member of the Architectural Centre, still an active member,…

  • Architecture as punishment

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    It’s a bit of an old chesnut but here we go again – lock ’em up and throw away the keys.  This week it seems that Act and National are convinced that humanity can’t do what architecture is so good at – incarceration.  Their addition to the Sentencing and Parole Reform Bill, if enacted, will…

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