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  • Is architecture at odds with politics?

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    In a rare moment in April, I bought a copy of The Economist, but it was not the obvious architecturally related homeownership article which caught my eye – but rather it was pages 63 and 64, and an article titled: “There was a lawyer, an engineer and a politician …”Well spotted – no architect in…

  • Pared to the core – Local Body Councils on a Hiding to nothing

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    First they let him loose on the dance floor, then Super-Auckland, and now the rest of us – does this man know no humility…? Rodney Hide is set to Tango all over Local Body law in order to reduce them to core services – such as public health and safety, and rubbish collection. Here is…

  • Video of the Week XVI: soothing cities

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    Apparently made only a couple of years ago this will take you back to the sixties visually and the 90s musically – with a slight fairground tinge.  A soothing way to start the day and fail-stop way to probably design almost anything.  If you open it up with several windows going at once the carousel…

  • Deidre Brown to talk on Maori Architecture

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    Come along to hear Deidre talk about her research on Maori Architecture. Thursday 18th June from 5.45 (mihi, 6pm lecture, 7ish food & drinks) is the time and day.  There’ll be books on hand if you’d like a copy and an author to sign them if that suits  … and of course plenty of people…

  • Yamamoto architecture

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    Victoria University School of Architecture & Design extends an invitation to hear award winning Japanese architect Riken Yamamoto speak on a selection of his work for one day only: Saturday 4 July, LT1, 1.30-2.30, $10 – cheap at twice the price!!

  • DCM and Cuisinaire

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    Following swiftly on from the post on Architecture and Lego, it seems that the connection between children’s toys and architectural design may be closer linked than is publicly acknowledged. Recent attendees at the NZIA Conference will have noticed a strong similarity between the design work of Denton Corker Marshall and the children’s cognitive learning tool:…

  • Archi-lego

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    Ah finally its here! The ultimate in no-need-for-your-own-imagination toys for kids (children are so much dumber today)… rather antithetical to the Lego tradition, but then when you can make Hogwarts, not to mention Sponge Bob why not the Guggenheim? Bring on Guggenheim Bilboa! I picked this up from overthenet blog, who are commenting on the…

  • Wistful windy thinking

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    Wet, windy, and wild weather.  Perhaps the only options are indoors, heat and comfort food.  But no  – there’s wacky architecture as well.  Yes we all know about the bizarre things architects do with wind turbines – but if not here’s a few …

  • Heading out east?

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    In conjunction with plans for the indoor sports stadium on Cobham Drive (not that this is mentioned in any of the council documents) Kilbirnie town is to become a bit more of a town.

  • Architecture & Contingency

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    Straw House by Sarah Wigglesworth and Jeremy Till. Jeremy Till claims in his new book that architecture exists in a bubble and ignores the way people really live. Follow the link to listen to a BBC interview where Till discusses with Laurie Taylor how architecture engages – or fails to engage – with the society for which it…

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